Gov. Jerry Brown won't have a shortage of candidates to choose from to fill a recent vacancy on the 1st District Court of Appe...

The Creative Artists Agency has settled with 115 class members who described themselves as "older" television writers, agreein...

A tentative opinion by the 2nd District offers hope that traffic studies will return to how it has always been done. By James...

Effectively defended, the deposition can show opposing counsel that your witness will be effective at trial. By Paul D. Beeche...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Friday awarded a World War II veteran $8 million in a lawsuit against his insurance compa...

Recognizing the intense public interest in the upcoming health care case, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it woul...

A convicted murderer who's been on death row since 1980 cannot be executed because Madera County's then-district attorney lied...

Avoid hefty fines and get that license before playing copyrighted music. By David Muradyan of Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin...

Los Angeles County Juvenile Court Presiding Judge Michael Nash said his order doesn't change existing law. It merely lays out ...

A look at how Thomas Turner, managing partner of Procopio, has fended off countless merger proposals and kept the 120-lawyer S...

A Palm Desert attorney who is a Canadian citizen was indicted last week for using another lawyer's Social Security number to o...

We seem to care for our children until they become 18, at which point their legal status and our judgments quickly change. ...

Costa Mesa's effort to lay off more than 100 city workers and outsource their jobs to private contractors hit another snag las...

Mintz Levin signed a lease agreement for office space in San Francisco earlier this month even though the firm hasn't yet seal...

General counsel and senior lawyers at Fortune 1,000 corporations are asked about how they approach dispute resolution. By Thom...

State Attorney General Kamala Harris has named UC Irvine law professor Katherine Porter to serve as a monitor of the mortgage ...

A federal judge in Riverside has ruled to award attorney fees and expenses to the non-profit organization that challenged th...

The judge who oversaw a personal-injury trial gone awry before the jury could award $9.4 million has given new details Friday ...

A new sentencing option allows offenders to receive a "split sentence" of jail time and post-release mandatory supervision by ...

A Northern District federal judge is poised to hear what may be the first trial in which both direct and indirect purchasers c...

The son of a lawmaker, Judge Peter Deddeh instead chose to practice and enforce the law. ...

Facebook Inc. snagged Joshua Smith as co-lead privacy counsel. He shares the title with Edward Palmieri and will report to dep...

Judge Victoria Kolakowski's biggest adjustment has been learning how not to be an advocate.

Working in an emergency room, where sick patients are often rushed to the hospital in desperate need of medical attention, is ...

The Anti-Defamation League held it’s annual event Tuesday to honor the winners of the Helene & Joseph Sherwood Family Priz...

A close reading of the U.N. Charter appears to be more liberal on the use of force than traditional international law. By Sara...

Speculative real estate lending is making a slow comeback and lawyers are finding such deals more difficult because of the tig...

The state's campaign finance watchdog will post judges' financial disclosure forms online but will first consider what informa...

A Marin County investment adviser faces SEC and criminal charges for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $4.5 million....