After nearly 29 years on the bench, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John P. Shook has decided to hang up his robes. Sh...

Student free speech trumps school district's ability to discipline for cyber misconduct. By Gretchen M Shipley of Fagen Friedm...

Two former senior officers of computer giant Gateway Inc. took a legal hit Thursday as a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pan...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thuyrsday that would revamp the nation's patent laws for the first time in dec...

The U.S. Supreme Court set a different standard for generic drug manufacturers on Thursday than it did for brand-name pharmace...

The law firm Holland & Knight received an award from the greater Los Angeles chapter of the American Red Cross last week ...

Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino hosted an open house Thursday in its new headquarters building in downtown San Bernardino...

A recent spate of bankruptcies of major big box retail stores has proven challenging for real estate lawyers trying to fashion...

Reclassification of formaldehyde and styrene have the potential to substantially impact toxic tort litigation. By Robert Kum a...

Should employees be paid overtime for work-related phone calls, text messages, and emails placed on a work-issued device? By J...

Why we need the courts to be fully staffed in hard times. By Curtis E.A. Karnow of the San Francisco County Superior Court ...

Facebook "friending" a represented party held to be a violation of Rule of Professional Conduct 2-100. By Wendy L. Patrick of ...

Jacoby & Meyers, which calls itself "America's Most Familiar Law Firm," has sold much of its California operations to one ...

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the persistent twins who have long challenged Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook’s ownership, abandon...

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review a multi-million dollar verdict for a woman whose wealthy boyfriend gav...

Congressional Democrats pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking a colossal gender-bias class action against Wal-Ma...

A fictional letter by Frank McCourt to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm ...

Apple Inc. will get to keep its unreleased iPhone and iPad under wraps in a discovery battle with rival Samsung Electronics Co...

Judge David C. Velasquez, who supervised the Orange County Superior Court's complex civil courthouse for four years, will step...

A pair of copyright lawsuits over social network game FarmVille find the game's owner and developer Zynga, Inc. on both the of...

A Texas-based company that runs a website in which users submit amusing status updates and comments from Facebook Inc. will ge...

Lawyers for Apple Inc. on Wednesday became some of the first in the country to try applying the U.S. Supreme Court's decision ...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP will expand its Los Angeles presence with a downtown office, the firm confirmed this we...

California's 122 presiding judges, justices and court executive officers have sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown and state legi...

In a move that has created an unusual courtroom alliance, Allstate Insurance Co. has officially joined the fray of plaintiff l...

A new federal court program aimed at clustering patent cases with specially trained judges is likely to draw more marquee liti...

Minority women are snubbing private firms in favor of in-house positions, according to data recently released by nonprofit gro...

In a win for workers and their bosses, a 9th Circuit en banc panel held Wednesday that insurance companies can be named as def...

A lawyer convicted of embezzling from clients cannot use payments to his victims from the State Bar Client Security Fund to re...