Hewlett-Packard Co. may be suing its former chief executive officer, Mark Hurd, to stop him from taking its trade secrets to O...

Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg is upgrading into a larger office space as its Los Angeles attorney headcount and casewor...

In the latest in a string of crackdowns on employers who claim full-time workers as independent contractors to save money, the...

Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in California. Redaction of online court records is in the interest of all...

It's certainly not easy for ex-felons to get their lives back on track. Being a mentor to parolees can do wonders.

The $677 million jury verdict in a case against Skilled Healthcare Inc. that recently settled for approximately $50 million, i...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Friday said that a Christian student had not met the requirements to sue his college...

The state's Green Chemistry Initiative will reduce or remove toxic chemicals from consumer products, by Peter Hsiao, William F...

Expect significant expansion to labor laws with the new National Labor Relations Board, by Alan R. Berkowitz and Arthur F. Sil...

No one likes paying legal bills. Here are 10 tax tips that will alleviate some of the pain and help you find the best way to a...

A patient in a typical hip replacement surgery, following several months of physical therapy after the major medical procedure...

On Tuesday the Legal Aid Association of California named Manatt, Phelps & Phillips the recipient of the 2010 Award of Meri...

Allergan Inc., the Irvine-based maker of Botox, reached an undisclosed settlement late Wednesday with the family of a woman wh...

The San Francisco U.S. attorney's office has struck a plea deal resolving its long-simmering prosecution of a former Mercury I...

A former Morrison & Foerster partner and his wife pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges in connection with an alle...

The arrival Thursday of litigation partners Paul J. Hall and Todd C. Toral to DLA Piper from Nixon Peabody brings the number o...

Heating up the political debate over "don't ask, don't tell," a pair of U.S. senators fired off a letter to Attorney General E...

The mother of Michael Jackson has sued concert promoter AEG Live alleging it holds liability for the late singer's death, in a...

John Roos, the former Wilson Sonsini CEO and current ambassador to Japan, shared his views Wednesday on the importance of U.S....

California's problems go far deeper and reach back further than the current recession, by John Caragozian, Karl Manheim and Do...

Should the judge or the insurance company decide whether an employee receives health care benefits? By Glenn Kantor of Kantor ...

When does a photograph of a naked child "cross the line" from innocent snapshot to child porn? One mother's shocking story, by...

After arbitrating 300 cases, Joe W. Hilberman doesn't take anything for granted because as the Eagles' lyric says 'They will n...

After decades of confrontations, two organizations join under a common cause, by Christopher B. Dolan, Consumer Attorneys of C...

Gary H. Ritchey, formerly a litigation partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew in Palo Alto, transitioned his practice to Ho...

A Las Vegas attorney is filing an unprecedented wave of lawsuits against nonprofit groups, political parties and blogs for inf...

California's quest to tackle global warming is emerging as a dividing issue in the race for attorney general between two big-c...

In complex litigation, parallel settlement communications can break down barriers and erase damage caused by party-specific co...

The issue of who should pay attorney fees in the Proposition 8 case has been postponed while the case moves through the appell...

At the Republic of Ecuador's request, a magistrate judge on Wednesday ordered a man who secretly videotaped an Ecuadorean judg...