With no end in sight to the longtime legal standoff between HMOs and hospital physicians over billing practices, state officia...

The U.S. government has sued an infomercial impresario for allegedly welshing on a deal to have federal inmates staff his call...

Torrance Judge Eric C. Taylor is satisfied in trial court but colleagues say the 45-year-old jurist would make an excellent ch...

In their own words, the honorees offer their views on how far women have come in the law profession - and how far they have ...

Jordan Yospe, former general counsel for Mark Burnett Productions and founder of The Brand-Aide Entertainment Group, has joine...

Prosecutors can't be booted off a case just for pursuing a book or movie project inspired by true crime, the California Suprem...

As supervising judge for the remote Lancaster court, Thomas R. White deals with the challenging gang trials and prisoner cases...

Farm workers who sued claiming they were required to taste unwashed, pesticide-laden grapes for sweetness and were denied meal...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an antitrust appeal by a California smoker who argued that cigarette prices were sky...

Some insurers are now seeking to use the technical measure of giving precautionary notice as a basis to assert the prior notic...

DLA Piper's San Diego office has gained another partner from Heller Ehrman. Craig Andrews, the former managing partner of Hell...

Floyd Landis is famous for his speed in time trials, but when the world-renowned cyclist found himself in arbitration fighting...

The Los Angeles City Council is set to take up the controversial patient-dumping ordinance on Wednesday that supporters say wo...

Crippled by the recusal of four justices, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it could not act on a high-stakes appea...

When will Democrats realize that the key to winning the election is to get Mexican-Americans to believe that the party won't t...

Marc A. Becker, a commercial litigation partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, has joined litigation powerhou...

Judge Donald Cole Byrd's ties to the Willows community go back generations. ...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Orange County office has nabbed three more lawyers from the Orange County office of Morrison &a...

Vocal and persistent, Justice Antonin Scalia can be a source of deep anxiety for counsel during Supreme Court oral arguments, ...

Chief Judge Irma E. Gonzalez hopes that the recent bombing of her federal courthouse in downtown San Diego will spur Congress ...

Heading into settlement negotiations with lawyers for the Buena Park police, the young civil rights lawyers from Morrison &...

While no one can protect public safety employees from physical harm, lawyers can help ensure that they have their legal affair...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Corporate and securities partner Allen Z. Sussman has jumped from Morrison & Foerster t...

It is time for the California Supreme Court to strike down the state's ban on same-gender marriage as violative of the Califor...

Tom Muller has become the third O'Melveny & Myers real estate partner in two months to jump to Los Angeles-based Manatt, P...

After months of internal wrangling among city officials, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa used his veto power last week to force the...

Seizing on the recent convictions of several lawyers linked to securities class action firm Milberg Weiss, Republicans are cal...

As a new judge handling drug and misdemeanor cases in Victorville, Michael A. Sachs works hard to get lives back on track, as ...

Gerald A. "Jerry" Kurland, a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS, has been awarded the 2008 West Coast Casualty Jerrold S. Olive...

Twenty-four years as a lawyer, working in government and private offices, on criminal and civil cases, primed Marla Miller for...