The California Supreme Court could be signaling it's trying to cut down on the immense work associated with death penalty appe...

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After a 30-year civil litigation career, Los Angeles County Judge John Kralik has a reputation as an 'extremely positive perso...

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Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. has now spent more than $200 million on legal costs defending stock option-related litigation, a l...

A Los Angeles-area criminal defense attorney will be disbarred after a judge Monday sentenced him to probation for witness tam...

A judge signed off on the deal between the union and 70,000 actors, ending a three-year lawsuit that accused the guild of fail...

Justice Antonin Scalia took aim Friday at Roe v. Wade, telling students at Hastings College of the Law the 1973 decisio...

Legislation to reconfigure California’s civil trial process may dramatically increase jury trials from 1,800 to 13,000 per yea...

The political blockage of U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen’s nomination to the U.S. District Court is a scandal when consider...

California’s bench boasts its election procedure is independent of politicized judicial elections, except for the for the Supe...

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The scarcity of private projects is driving more firms to bid on public works, adding complexity to an already convoluted proc...

The social acceptance of homosexuality is seemingly steamrolling through well-established constitutional rights, by Dean R. Br...

September 21, 2010 The Securities and Exchange Commission has started the clock on new rules brought on by the Dodd-Frank Wal...

California lawyers at two firms nabbed work representing the Internet media company Internet Brands, Inc. in a $640 million de...

Defenders of Prop 8 say Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker blinded himself to marriage's true purpose: procreation, an...

The move came after the plaintiffs failed to cram all the various nationwide claims related to unintended acceleration problem...

Former Democratic state Senator Joseph Dunn will be the agency's executive director.

The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to trade stock for his new job at rival Oracle Corp.

Lawyers say investors are just trying to find another party from which to recoup huge losses from commercial real estate deals...

Despite early criticisms that his appointments to the state bench lacked diversity, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed a...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan imposed strict new limits on the scope of the Alien Torts Statute — which a...

SANTA ANA - Hyundai will pay an undisclosed amount to the family of a young man killed in a 2005 freeway accident by a drunk e...

Call them the surfer and the skipper, two guys with different styles and skills, who regularly collaborate on high-stakes case...