Scrutinizing a stylized leaf and floral pattern textile design, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel concluded Monday tha...

The Internet is the ultimate interstate environment, which can lead to federal preemption of laws governing disputes over cert...

Marijuana-smoking members of an independent chapter of the Native American Church in Hawaii won revival of their suit against ...

The proposals under review by lobbyists for the judiciary and leaders of leading bar organizations focus on upping the basic f...

Three years after its filing, a consolidated product liability suit against Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC over the spee...

In a legal setback for Google Inc.'s AdWords advertising program, an appellate court panel on Monday vacated part of the Mount...

In a new filing Monday, embattled film financier David Bergstein is seeking his due for the role he played in a 2010 deal to s...

There's at least some evidence suggesting that possessing a gun makes you more prone to view someone else as a threat. By Adam...

Microsoft reached an agreement Monday with AOL Inc. to purchase 800 patents and license an additional 300 patents for $1.056 b...

GreenWave Energy Solutions LLC is weighing the possibility of building a 100-megawatt "wave energy" project off the coast of M...

Parents who end up in court are already stressed; litigation only makes matters worse. By Mark Baer ...

An idea theft trial over the film "The Last Samurai" came to an end Friday when a federal court jury ruled that screenwriters ...

The State Bar moved a step closer Monday to requiring future California lawyers to have practical, hands-on training before t...

Judge Kendall Newman soldiers through settlement conferences until the deal is done.

A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

The term "old white men" would not be inaccurate to describe the group of people comprising many civil grand juries in Califor...

General counsel for Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. El Segundo ...

Professor, I thank you. By Louis A. Lipofsky ...

Los Angeles is now the third publicly-owned utility in California to offer a so-called "feed-in tariff" program, indicating a ...

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach is gearing up to roll out a diversion program in which low-level misdemeano...

Brinker, which will determine if employers must force workers to take breaks or only make them available, has been one of the ...

Legal sector hiring dropped in March after two consecutive months of gains, while overall nonfarm employment continued its str...

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office has denied that any conflict of interest exists in its prosecution of a former Bel...

Be wary of changes this year, and don't forget to double check your returns, even for silly typing errors that can lead to pai...

Companies should be careful to keep track of where their money is going, and whether expenditures could be considered politica...

It's a common misperception that IP cases cannot be covered by insurance; don't buy into it. By William T. Um of Hunton & ...

The state Department of Finance has accused Orange County of "flouting the law" by withholding $73.5 million in taxes, but the...

A judge allowed a civil rights complaint against the federal EPA to move forward, finding that it failed to address long-runni...

This month local officials will begin to sift through orphaned redevelopment projects, deciding which to continue and which to...