Riverside County's supervising criminal court judge dismissed two felony cases for lack of available judges to hear them this ...

Just one day after a riot broke out at a Lancaster detention center, federal officials began moving dozens of immigrants out t...

A computer programmer testified Wednesday that he did not know the wiretapping system he built was being used by private inves...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - John Yoo and the other Justice Department lawyers were an integral part of a criminal conspi...

Affordable housing developers receiving state tax credits are not required to pay workers prevailing wages, a Court of Appeal ...

Web Exclusive - By Laura Ernde - More than a decade after a scandal involving eggs stolen from a University of California, Irv...

Web Exclusive - By Linda Rapattoni - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a measure into law Wednesday that enables the judiciary...

The city of Oakland on Wednesday filed a federal class action antitrust case against 37 financial firms, including Bank of Ame...

Forum Column - By Marilyn A. Moberg - The state Supreme Court's recognition of the "sophisitcated user defense" for manufactur...

In the world of Web 2.0, Silicon Valley reigns supreme with Internet giants like ebay Inc. and Facebook Inc. revolutionizing t...

When Nedra and Fred Fox died six years ago, their son Brian Fox hired Hemet attorney Kevin Andrew Speir to handle proceeds of ...

Sixty percent of managing partners at U.S. and UK law firms anticipate a "rough road ahead" as they consider how the global ec...

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O'Melveny & Myers' new managing partner Carla Christofferson is also co-owner of the Los Angeles Sparks. She's an ace bow ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in recent years has strengthened a defendant's right to confront his accusers at trial, but the court's...

Glenn Warner, 1924 - 2008, was instrumental in securing a successful outcome for his clients in a landmark asbestos case. ...

Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - Evidence in criminal cases cannot be viewed in the abstract; it must be evaluated in li...

Forum Column - By Robert A. Steinberg - The best way to evaluate your case is the vaunted "decision tree" - a systematic exami...

Three lawyers, including a pair from the law firm Greenberg Glusker, testified Tuesday about private investigator Anthony Pell...

The Inter-Pacific Bar Association, an international organization of 1,600 business and commercial attorneys who focus their pr...

F. Douglas McDaniel, 1920-2008, was one of the last of the "pen and paper guys," one of his colleagues recalled. ...

Forum Column - By Joerg W. Knipprath - The Supreme Court should find that, like access to contraception and abortion, the pers...

On Tuesday, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo balked at the proposed budget from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, which calls for his ...

A Los Angeles law firm filed claims against Internet search giant Google Inc. Tuesday in federal court in San Jose, hoping a j...

A criminal defense lawyer has surrendered his law license after the State Bar accused him of letting a client sit in jail for ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies used tear gas to quell a riot that broke out Tuesday afternoon at a Lancaster immigratio...

Rambus Inc. Tuesday won its second major legal victory in a month when a federal appellate court overturned a Federal Trade Co...

Richard Reinis delivers talks about what he’s learned from the rise and fall of the Krispy Kreme franchise to groups of busine...

Broadcom Corp. agreed Tuesday to pay $12 million to settle charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the company ...

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