The Orange County legal community gathered earlier this month to congratulate David A. Thompson on his becoming a justice of t...

Law enforcement agencies announced two separate settlements Thursday over alleged wrongdoing involving Southern California hea...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday blocking construction of a planned 153,000 square-...

JAMS mediator and arbitrator Fred K. Morrison spent his life learning to acclimate to different situations and lawyers say he'...

An El Segundo-based law firm that handles collections work is suing Santa Clara University for its alleged misappropriation of...

An effort to reform the California Environmental Quality Act was set aside Thursday until next year, state legistlators announ...

James M. Humes, a top staff member for Gov. Jerry Brown, has put his name in for a vacancy on the 1st District Court of Appeal...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday repudiated an old common law ruling regarding settlements not made in good faith, ruling a...

More women than ever served as general counsel at top companies across the country last year, and California leads the upward ...

Chief Legal Officer of Stamps.com El Segundo ...

It's astonishing how, in this day of potentially high exposure liability, the major differences between an "Additional Insured...

New post-grant procedures for challenging patents in the Patent Office take effect next month. By Joe Liebeschuetz and Elizabe...

While the HBOR has some useful and reasonable provisions, it is likely to result in delayed foreclosures without obtaining the...

Toshiba Corp. has agreed to settle claims with a group of plaintiffs that last month won an $87 million verdict against the el...

The U.S. government will pay $425,000 in a first-of-its-kind settlement over claims a former prison inmate contracted a potent...

A Los Angeles jury awarded Hollywood financier David Bergstein $50 million in damages late Tuesday in his legal malpractice ca...

Proskauer Rose LLP advised longtime client Ares Management LLC in closing a $4.7 billion private equity investment fund, the L...

With budget cuts seemingly hitting urban courts disproportionately hard, some plaintiffs' lawyers say they're considering fili...

The latest amended complaint against Thomas Jefferson School of Law accuses the school of some outright lying, not just exagge...

A bill introduced by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, to prevent warrantless surveillance of people through GPS-enabled ...

The lengthy and complex verdict form in Apple Inc.'s patent and trade dress infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics C...

Hogan Lovells LLP advised Ivanhoe Cambridge, a Canada-based pension fund and one of the largest global real estate investors, ...

Since joining the state Supreme Court last year, Justice Goodwin Liu has authored more concurring and dissenting opinions than...

The decision should enhance policyholders' ability to obtain coverage for progressive damage occurring over many years. By Bro...

In the technology and creative sectors, copyright is king. By Richard E. Neff of Neff Law Firm ...

The state Supreme Court surprised many observers by reversing a trend of lower court decisions. By Valentine S. Hoy and Timoth...

Travel websites Expedia and Travelocity are among several accused of price fixing in a proposed class action filed in the Nort...

Support for capital punishment among California prosecutors runs high and many are banding together to try to defeat an attemp...

EIG Global Energy Partners LLC, a spinoff of investment firm The TCW Group Inc., has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to h...

Concerned parents and a chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics sued the Clovis Unified School District Monday, arguing ...