The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments today in a case that challenges California's planned 10 percent redu...

The American Bar Association's policymaking body put an end to a long debate Monday by adopting a model rule that will make it...

Mayer Brown has created an executive committee for the Los Angeles office — the only one of its kind at Mayer Brown — as a mea...

A class of shareholders suing software giant Oracle for stock losses in 2001 claim the company misled investors and inflated i...

Rather than stopping infringement, digital rights management has become a significant impediment to the development and market...

One of the nation’s most hard-hitting environmental advocacy groups will dramatically ramp up its efforts to combat climate ch...

Congress should create a uniform, victim-sensitive regimen to protect those forced to suffer a stake in a Ponzi case liquidati...

So the Obama administration has begun to unveil a variety of plans under consideration to tackle the foreclosure mess. Will it...

The Diocese of San Diego said it would turn over to plaintiffs' lawyers files kept on priests accused of sexual abuse - making...

Gail A. Andler said she has had a lifelong affinity for lawyers and judges and decided on a career on the bench back when she ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal recently issued two significant holdings protecting the rights of commercial tenants, writes ...

The departure of O'Melveny & Myers' Los Angeles white-collar crime practice chief James R. Asperger, who recently joined Q...

Irell & Manella has settled a $150 million malpractice claim leveled against the firm by one of its major clients, accordi...

Oakland-based law firm Meyers Nave is leading an internal affairs investigation into the conduct of the officers present at th...

In his book "Privacy: The Lost Right," John L. Mills examines personal privacy rights in today's intrusive world. ...

Family law judges sometimes lean too far in the direction of granting restraining orders when there are not sufficient legal b...

Mathew Musladin has apparently run out of chances. After a five-year saga in which Musladin's case reached the Supreme Court,...

A state appeals panel has unanimously ruled that civil clergy abuse claims brought by six brothers against Catholic Church off...

Instead of invoking the state secrets privilege to continue the shameful policy of renditions, the Obama administration should...

The number of civil cases making it to jury trial in California courts has declined drastically, raising concerns among attorn...

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act attempts to reconcile unfair wages — but it could affect other discrimination claims as well...

In keeping with an industrywide profit decline, Los Angeles-based legal powerhouse O'Melveny & Myers revealed on Thursday ...

A slew of law firms nationwide announced Thursday they were eliminating at least 793 employees as a result of the flailing eco...

In the harshest penalty against a prosecutor in recent years, a State Bar judge suspended Santa Clara County Deputy District A...

MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google unveiled its PowerMeter tool that will help electricity consumers track their energy usage in near real...

A federal appellate panel helped a group of Southern California doctors through a loophole in the securities litigation rules ...

Parties in the long-simmering Bratz brawl are trying to settle the case, a lawyer said in a court hearing Wednesday. ...

In a settlement that legal observers called a novel win for consumers, insurer Health Net has agreed to offer new health cover...

Immigration officials should move away from sweeping raids and broad prosecutions involving minor immigration violations and i...

Two recent appellate decisions are likely to limit the stampede to the Eastern District of Texas for patent cases, write Steph...