The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether Halliburton Co. shareholders can move forward with a class action lawsu...

If Gov. Jerry Brown wants to replace state Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno with another Latino Democrat, he might have ...

Changes in California's Insurance Code that every lawyer and judge should know. By Brian Harrison and Jason Chorley of Sedgwic...

As this year's new president of the Consumer Attorneys of California, John A. Montevideo will get to honor that selflessness w...

Be specific, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals advised plaintiffs seeking to sue businesses under the Americans with Disab...

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris was the lead attorney on an amicus brief filed Friday with 31 other attorneys gen...

Bert Deixler is jumping from Proskaur Rose to Kenall, Brill & Klieger ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case that asks the court to determine when companies and their lawy...

At a time when local governments are gasping for cash, San Bernardino County is under fire for accruing $4.5 million in legal ...

The health insurer's decision to raise premiums by as much as 59 percent has prompted calls for more oversight from Sacramento...

Over the summer, while the Charles Schwab Corp. was denying liability and putting the finishing touches on $235 million in set...

Commissioner Lisa Steingart draws on her training as a teacher to deal with litigants in small claims court and traffic court.

Superior Court Referee Heidi Shirley always sees the good in the delinquent youths who appear before her needing positive guid...

California speaks out about the ethical implications for judges participating in online social networking. By Wendy L. Patrick...

Get to know a lawyer, legislator and justice whose vast accomplishments have slipped into oblivion. By Richard M. Mosk of the ...

Reed Smith and Thompson & Knight have halted merger discussions, the firms announced Thursday. ...

Police took an Irvine lawyer into custody Thursday morning on 23 counts of having sex with two teenage girls and two counts of...

Retired Judge James R. Milliken, a mediator and arbitrator at Judicate West in San Diego, has seen a little bit of everything ...

A group of Bay Area commercial fishermen stand to receive $3.86 million as part of a proposed settlement reached in connection...

Proskauer Rose and one of its key Los Angeles partners are being sued for malpractice by a former media executive who alleges ...

Former Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco, who was ousted from his seat by a Superior Court judge in a bitter race...

Personal-injury lawyer C. Michael Alder rose from a virtual office with a post office box to a six-lawyer staff by taking smal...

Jurors found that David Replogle participated in an eleborate scheme to kill 74-year-old Cliff Lambert and drain his estate of...

An unusual lawsuit filed by relatives of "Mama" Cass Elliot claims the late pop singer's lawyers committed malpractice decades...

Ruling that federal prosecutors did not violate ethical rules by secretly recording conversations between Mike Carona and an i...

State Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno is stepping down to pursue a job in the private sector, he announced Thursday. ...

Experts say that new California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye would be wise to forge a strong relationship with Gov. Jerry...

A retrial of claims in the fiercely litigated Bratz intellectual property war will go forward as planned next week, the 9th U....

Partners at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in Silicon Valley represented San Jose-based Atheros Communications Inc. in the se...

The first woman to preside over Los Angeles County's criminal court system says discrimination experienced by her parents over...