Focus Column - By Bruce Wessel - As the Hollywood writers' strike continues, we take a look at suits over the theft of ideas ...

Forum Column - By Suzanne M. Blonder and Emily Werth - The California State Bar is perilously close to making a decision that ...

SACRAMENTO - A clearly divided California Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with the sticky problem of how employers should deal ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prescription drug makers and their lawyers may be feeling better now that two federal judges have tossed lawsu...

LOS ANGELES - When it comes to the current writers' strike, not all entertainment practices are created equal. Industry insid...

The jury that returned a $3.3 million verdict against Dole Food Co. and Dow Chemical Co. on Monday went back into deliberation...

Following the Dodgers put Ventura Judge Henry J. Walsh on the road to the bench, where he umpires with ease. ...

LOS ANGELES - Doron Weinberg, a highly regarded criminal attorney in the San Francisco legal community, may be the new defense...

Can a national park be an attractive nuisance? Attorneys for injured and killed hikers will square off today with government...

The state Supreme Court on Monday held that employers may reimburse their employees for their business expenses by increasing ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California's overcrowded prisons could avoid judicial interference by reforming compassion...

An Orange County perfume seller will have to find a new Web site following a federal appeals court's Monday ruling that its na...

O'Melveny & Myers, which was defending MGA Entertainment against a high-stakes legal challenge to its ownership of the wil...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded $3.3 million to six of 12 Nicaraguan men who claimed that e...

Four years ago, appellate specialist Charlie Bird of San Diego won a landmark California Supreme Court case that cemented the ...

WASHINGTON - Taking up the case of a murder defendant whose attorney turned down a deal to keep him off death row, the U.S. Su...

Deciding at 10 on a legal career, Superior Court Commissioner Gayle Peron steadily made her way to the bench, earning praise...

Drawing on values instilled by her mother, Los Angeles Judge Mary Lou Villar is appreciated for her compassion and understan...

CHICAGO - The Institute of Real Estate Management held an installation for its 2008 officers, which included Regina Mullins as...

Gary Spratling sleeps only four hours a night. But he may have only himself to blame for that. As the former deputy assista...

In the latest evidence of client unrest over soaring law firm billing rates, retail giant Wal-Mart has declared a moratorium a...

Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has tapped real estate litigator H. David Nahai to be the n...

Industry Watch - By Robert Iafolla - The former head of the Santa Ana U.S. attorney's office will join Snell & Wilmer as a...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Environmental lawyer Fernando Villa has jumped from Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles office ...

Forum Column - By Olivier F. Theard and Erica C. Smith - Studies show that black men are woefully underrepresented in the lega...

Forum Column - By Frederick K. Lowell - California's recent move toward more-restrictive campaign finance laws promises to mak...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - In a bid to answer the continuing rise in wage-and-hour class actions in California, Chic...

The Court of Appeal unanimously upheld a lower court's ruling Friday finding the University of California in breach of contrac...

Big Oil was the big winner last week when the California Supreme Court abruptly dismissed one of the oldest cases on its docke...

WASHINGTON - As constitutional debates go, few stir more passions than this one: Does the Second Amendment give private indivi...