Despite the new presidential administration's calls for more prosecutions of financial fraudsters and crooked politicians, som...
A Los Angeles attorney and three paralegals have been arrested in connection with a large fraud ring that allegedly faked auto...
The House of Representatives unanimously impeached a federal judge Thursday for allegedly taking bribes, lying to investigator...
Legal woes continue to pile up for David Bergstein, the financier whose film production and distribution entities are currentl...
Former KB Home Chairman Bruce E. Karatz was a greedy executive who stole $6 million from shareholders and hired a private dete...
After reaching a bipartisan compromise, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation Thursday to close the disparity in s...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit: Pledge is Constitutional
By John Roemer
The Pledge of Allegiance as recited daily by California schoolchildren is constitutional, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
With no law degree, Elisabeth Seaman gets to the heart of a dispute by considering emotions instead of wrangling over legal de...
Ross Hyslop and Gary Brucker Jr. of McKenna Long & Aldridge say recent class actions are troubling because they arise from...
Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo says Chavez v. City of Los Angeles finally gives employers leverage in negotiating sett...
Kenneth Gibbs of JAMS introduces a new and better way to resolve construction disputes that avoids expensive and protracted li...
Perspective
False Patent Marking: The Next Frontier for IP Litigation
By Andrew Blaken
Sunil Kulkarni and Rachel Krevans of Morrison & Foerster discuss the advantages of a false marking suit and how to protect...
Kathleen Sullivan, the high-profile head of business litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges' national appe...
Health Care & Hospital Law
U.S. Launches Probes Into Foreign Bribes In Health Care
By Evan George
With fraud investigations of the health care industry growing from Los Angeles to New York, federal prosecutors are starting t...
Patrick Coughlin's departure from top-flight plaintiff securities firm Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins was preceded...
A San Francisco federal judge postponed hearing a defense mistrial motion in the criminal stock options backdating retrial of ...
The University of California must pay more than $38 million for raising fees after they enrolled, despite promising not to. ...
Attorney Brett Maxfield has decided not to fight his disqualification from the June 8 ballot, which had pitted him against sit...
After 15 years of planning, San Diego's new $380 million, 467,000-square-foot, 16-story courthouse annex is underway and expec...
Non-violent offenders with serious mental illness now are eligible for Behavioral Health Court services that will include hous...
Judges from the three divisions of the federal court for the Central District and Judge Alex Kozinski, chief of the 9th U.S. C...
Chief Judge Irma E. Gonzalez demands professionalism, but keeps cases moving.
Last month, Jeffrey M. Rawitz, the defense attorney for Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, publicly disclosed that he has amyo...
After slaughtering hogs in his youth, Judge Richard Toohey never complains about his job.
The Obama administration has nominated U.S. District Judge Kate O'Malley of the Northern District of Ohio for the first vacanc...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has confirmed that an amended version of Amazon Inc.'s "one-click" method of online shopp...
A former Marine who was fired from the Riverside Police Department after federal authorities charged him with killing Iraqi de...
The California Supreme Court Wednesday voted 7-0 to review a controversial appellate ruling that voided the state's law agains...
A Senate panel approved the nomination of California lawyer Sharon L. Browne Wednesday to the board of the Legal Services Corp...