In light of the recent across-the-board federal spending cuts, a number of projects are seeing their heads on the $85 million ...

A trailer bill that's part of Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal could chill some public-interest lawsuits, according to a rep...

Perhaps because of American market dominance, Canadians generally do a better job of paying attention to U.S. tax consideratio...

Firms entering the Korean market see a new business opportunity, estimated to be worth up to $2 billion annually, and an oppor...

An insurance policy's unsatisfied self-insured retention can significantly impact litigation and impede an injured party's rec...

A contentious breach-of-contract case against federal weapons research lab Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC goes to tr...

Judge Frederick N. Wapner sentenced 49-year-old sole practitioner Kenneth Roger Markman to a year in county jail and a year of...

Los Angeles County Superior Court has given final approval to a plan to close eight of its courthouses in an effort to reduce ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that under federal Superfund law, insurance companies must follow a narrow legal p...

Since early February, under goading by the advocacy group Law School Transparency, many California schools improved the online...

While the increasing prevalence of technology has allowed several state courts to transition to online filing systems in recen...

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP added a pair of attorneys in Los Angeles as partners in the firm's employment and labor pract...

In a setback for the Obama administration's surveillance program, a federal judge here on Friday held unconstitutional the use...

Last year, a proposal for an EU Regulation on Data Protection was released. The regulation has been described as one of the mo...

It seems professional journalists can no longer compete with bloggers any more than Blockbuster can compete with Netflix. By K...

A federal judge stymied a lawsuit filed by Implicit Networks Inc. and its lawyers at Hosie Rice LLP in an order Wednesday that...

A 9th Circuit ruling on a claim of corruption against BNSF Railway Company by a rail workers union grabbed the attention of Ca...

Chief Judge Randal A. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit headlined the annual Judge's Night gala, spon...

Plaintiffs in the mental-health portion of a lawsuit surrounding overcrowding in state prisons plan to file a brief Friday in ...

A San Diego asylum-seeker turned down for a federal law school student loan lost his suit against the government over the loan...

The Japanese American Bar Association held its 37th Annual Installation and Awards Gala on Feb. 22 at the Omni Hotel in downto...

According to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, "In short, the record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and ...

The Beverly Hills Bar Association held it's 3rd Annual BHBA Litigation Awards Dinner on Feb 20 at the Montage Beverly Hills. ...

Law firms can sue other law firms for unfair business practices even if they have no direct business dealings, an appellate co...

Duane Morris LLP lured away one of the founding partners of Krieg, Keller, Sloan, Roman & Holland LLP Thursday, bringing o...

Stacy D. Phillips founder and managing principal of Phillips Lerner ALC (center) with guests Richard Fischoff (left) and Dr. A...

From left: Los Angeles managing partner Eric E. Sagerman, Associate Justice Chin and David L. Aronoff, head of the firm's liti...

Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling LLP scooped up former U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman to be part of the fir...

Budget cuts are hitting federal public defenders' offices across the country worse than anticipated and harder than at other a...

With cooperation from parties in a rash of suits in a 2007 fire, neutrals launched an unusual plan to get broader authority ov...