A class-action settlement worth $17.5 million to victims of the Armenian Genocide devolved into a courtroom mud fight this wee...

In a devastating defeat, a San Francisco County Superior Court jury on Wednesday rejected Sunnyvale-based chip designer Rambus...

A 53,058-square-foot medical office building at 8641 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills was refinanced for $12 million.

The Occupy movement, which initially drew broad support from big cities, is now facing eviction from public spaces across the ...

It is clear that football at this level has lost its bearings. By Rodney K. Smith of Thomas Jefferson School of Law ...

The actors involved in the Penn State scandal should take active steps to encourage recovery. By Thomas A. Cifarelli of Cifare...

Why debtors should invest the effort to ensure that it has a friendly creditor voting class. By Howard N. Madris of the Law Of...

L.A. County's child dependency system soon will be opened to the public, despite strong opposition. By William W. Patton of Wh...

A Southern California man convicted of storing toxic and hazardous waste in his backyard was sentenced to five years in federa...

Hogan Lovells snagged intellectual property litigator Song Zhu from Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, the firm announced Monday. ...

Century City-based Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP has merged with Pruetz Law Group, the El Segundo in...

Digital royalties claims are beating against the music industry's major labels. Joining the choir this week, legendary 1960s r...

Kenneth R. Feinberg has taken on some of the grimmest and thankless tasks in recent history, yet they were also some of the mo...

The U.S. Senate confirmed Alameda County Superior Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to the federal bench in the Northern Dist...

Despite objections by prosecutors who said the punishment was too light, a former Morrison & Foerster LLP attorney was sen...

Erika F. Rottenberg, general counsel for Mountain View-based social networking company LinkedIn Corp., is planning to sell off...

After nearly a decade, a law allowing municipal governments to compete with public utilities and develop their own power purch...

As counties begin to absorb a massive influx of state prisoners, local authorities say they've become especially concerned abo...

Despite being robbed in Richmond, Judge Joni T. Hiramoto is committed to serving there.

San Diego County's criminal justice community is mourning the death of Christine I. Trevino, a county prosecutor who died last...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and former client MGA Entertainment settled their legal beef Tuesday over the law firm's claims that...

Ten months into serving as attorney general, Kamala Harris has staked a bold claim to consumer causes with a national platform...

The 5th District finds that "gratuitous write-offs" of medical bills are recoverable under the collateral source rule. By Will...

The greenhouse gas cap is real and will affect us all. By Malcolm C. Weiss and Ian M. Forrest of Hunton & Williams LLP ...

In court, much like life, you may be judged on your moral rather than legal obligations. By Mary Dollarhide of Paul Hastings L...

A provision of the patent reform act that limits the number of defendants that can be tried in a single case already is having...

California counties struggling to find creative ways to come up with revenue in the battered economy are keeping a close eye o...

California has put on hold its 10 percent reduction in Medi-Cal reimbursements pending court review. ...

A former San Francisco Giants payroll manager pleaded guilty Monday in San Francisco federal court to embezzling $2.2 million ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's announcement that it will take up the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care law ...