The Los Angeles County Bar Association celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Domestic Violence Project March 3 at the Millenn...

Homeowners in San Mateo, Potomac, Md. and Jupiter, Fla. filed a national class action lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior...

Actor Charlie Sheen on Thursday sued Warner Bros. Studio Enterprises and a co-creator of the sitcom "Two and a Half Men" for $...

Mark Roy Anderson, a disbarred Nevada lawyer, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 counts of wire fraud, securities...

Ninth Circuit Judge Mary M. Schroeder announced Thursday that she will assume senior status Jan. 1, 2012. ...

A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed with prejudice the securities fraud class action pending since 2007 against a group...

Cooley LLP suffered a blow to its mergers and acquisitions practice when longtime partner David A. Lipkin announced he is depa...

In the past three weeks, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP has boosted its Southern California ranks by double digits. ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to unveil a database that logs product safety complaints that critics say c...

San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis Thursday announced her intentions to run for mayor in 2012. ...

A neutral tentatively ordered the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Thursday to release thousands of files of psychiatric records of ...

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to conflict resolution can be problematic. By Matthew P. Guasco of Judicate West. ...

A big win for labor unions last year at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is in jeopardy as the circuit prepares to review...

How to balance a client's concerns about principles with the basic goals of mediation.

Rainwater runoff that gathers pollutants as it flows through Los Angeles' storm drains to the ocean is county flood-control of...

While the number of securities class-action settlements dropped to their lowest level in more than a decade, the median amount...

Why is the U.S. Supreme Court revisiting Civil War and World War II era cases? By Thomas Penfield of Casey Gerry Schenk Franca...

An appellate court's scathing criticism of California's anti-SLAPP law (strategic lawsuits against public participation), prom...

Staying current with California's ever-changing wage and hour laws is no easy task. By D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenza. ...

Giving priority to two classes of litigants, at the expense of all others, has created a traffic jam in our family courts. By ...

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Federal prosecutors pursuing biotechnology executives are getting a bigger stick to beat back health care fraud in the form of...

Bank of America Corp.-owned Countrywide Home Loans Inc. is trying to whittle down a potentially massive Northern District clas...

They called it "The Human Side of Genius," and when it came out in 1991, the advertising campaign for the firm then known as H...

Former Howrey LLP partners and legal analysts opine on what led the once mighty litigation firm to dissolution. ...

UC Berkeley, ground zero for the free speech movement of the 1960s, is dealing with a new crop of campus protesters. Law stude...

Summit Entertainment, the Santa Monica-based studio behind the hit "Twilight" movies, will use financing to pay off debts and ...

Gary Watt of Archer Norris PLC responds to "Volunteer Attorney Program Can Alleviate Bankruptcy Court's Massive Workload." ...

A federal judge denied a motion for preliminary approval of a settlement between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and subscribers to the o...

The Department of Justice has asked for a 60-day stay in a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act in the Northern Di...