The University of Southern California has quietly replaced elite law firm Latham & Watkins as legal counsel on a multi-bil...

Judge Nancy Wieben Stock has always taken a leadership role in every task before her.

Kristy S. Watts used to be a bookkeeper for world-famous romance novelist Danielle Steel. But starting in June, she'll be a pr...

New York-based Pfizer Inc. lost a bid to have a San Francisco federal judge impose sanctions against Joseph M. Alioto Sr., a w...

Eighty Mexican prosecutors and agents from Baja California are attending two days of classes north of the border as part of an...

Legislation that would require independent yearly audits of how California's trial courts and the central Administrative Offic...

A senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney was found guilty Tuesday of taking bribes from illegal immigrants i...

As more details emerge about a crime lab employee's drug thefts and other criminal acts, political analysts say the scandal is...

Amway distributors who contend the big direct sales company is really a fraudulent pyramid scheme got a boost Tuesday from a 9...

For the second time this term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a statute on free speech grounds Tuesday when it held that a...

A San Diego law school professor is rallying her students - both foreign and native-born - to tap the potential of emerging gl...

Two Los Angeles law firms that helped Bob and Harvey Weinstein walk away from Miramax, the independent studio the brothers bui...

John Poyner, President of the Institute for the Advancement of Criminal Justice and Colusa County DA, says the AEDPA minimizes...

Mark Russakow of Russakow | Ryan | Johnson examines the use of temporary restraining orders by companies to knock the new comp...

A person's privacy right in his or her identity and contact information, in most cases, is far outweighed by the right in liti...

Ed Poll's new book, "Growing Your Law Practice in Tough Times," discusses how law firms can achieve greater success after the ...

Malcolm Sher explains the intricacies and considerations of resolving partition action disputes. ...

The Charles Schwab Corp. will pay $200 million to resolve a portion of a federal lawsuit in which a class of investors claim t...

A Silicon Valley technology company is running into one roadblock after another trying to prove that its former lawyers at Orr...

Judges in the Central District of California, who have come under fire for the way they handle their large patent docket, will...

From the Cop Shop

More than 700 athletes took to the surf, sand and streets to compete in the 33rd annual Kring & Chung Newport Beach Triath...

Over the past decade, business at the Port of Los Angeles has boomed. It is the nation's busiest port, contributing $5.1 billi...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday took up the question of whether debtors preparing bankruptcy plans can put aside money for car-r...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared unsympathetic Monday to the claims of an Ontario police officer who claims that he had a right...

California Attorney General Jerry Brown lashed out at Moody's Investors Service on Monday for refusing to cooperate in a probe...

An increasing body of case law suggests that an insured's reliance on the Fifth Amendment privilege may come at a significant ...

David Kahn, Ursula Hyman, Daniel Settelmayer, Paul DeMuro and Gerald Peters of Latham & Watkins explain changes to tax-exe...

Kathleen Russell of the Center for Judicial Excellence supports AB 2521, which will apply the same transparency requirements f...