Six months after Toyota Motor Corp.'s mechanical woes became national news, plaintiffs' attorneys from California to Louisiana...
Judge Gilbert Brown's experience as both a prosecutor and public defender gives him perspective on the bench.
In a widening investigation of health insurance denials and premium hikes, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said he had...
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ordered an audit of the agency's legal costs in the last five yea...
A Pennsylvania woman can pursue damages and attorneys' fees from Universal Music Corp. after the company demanded the removal ...
An Orange County jury on Thursday convicted Rodney James Alcala of the first-degree murders of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach ...
Former U.S. District Judge Lawrence Irving loved - loved - the variety of cases and the security of being on the San Diego ben...
Criticized by minority bar associations who said its judicial vetting committee wasn't diverse enough, the Santa Clara County ...
The trucking industry and the Port of Los Angeles are headed to trial after a Los Angeles federal judge on Thursday refused to...
Career prosecutor Laura E. Duffy has extensive background in drug, money cases. ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman announced Thursday a "tentative agreement in principle" to move forward in the long-ru...
Kenneth Klein of California Western School of Law says action taken by the Supreme Court to curb frivolous litigation is the r...
Government
Time to Move On: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy Is An Outdated Argument
By Sharon Liangn
Colonel Tom Umberg of the U.S. Army says soldiers have more pressing things on their minds than the sexual orientation of othe...
For an apology to be meaningful, it must be given right and the victim has to be in a position to willingly accept the gesture...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Dukes It Out Over Dicta
By John Roemer
Two prominent Ninth Circuit judges sparred over the limits of appellate decision making and revived a decades long argument th...
The county public defender's office and sheriff's department are investigating why a bailiff handcuffed a defense attorney who...
The John M. Langston Bar Association held its annual officer installation and awards gala Saturday in downtown Los Angeles. Ge...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Letter to the Editor
California Supreme Court Case Was Not About a Forum-Shopping Plaintiff
By Sharon Liangn
NEW YORK - Trepp, a provider of analytic information for the commercial mortgage-backed securities market, announced its acqui...
NEW YORK - The costs of nonresidential building construction fell 0.5 percent from fourth-quarter 2009 to first-quarter 2010 a...
In a sweeping triumph for Crocs Inc. the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday found that defendants did ...
Appeal Court Justice Betty Richli's upbringing in rural Pennsylvania fed her intellectual curiosity and led her to the law.
Laura E. Duffy, chief deputy of general crimes for the Southern District U.S. attorney's office, was nominated for the top pos...
Yelp!, the popular Web site that posts customers' reviews of restaurants, nightclubs and other businesses, was hit with a fede...
The head of a state mental institution that treats convicted sex offenders was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of child molest...
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A state-run mental health center must reinstate popular autism treatments for nearly 200 children despite crippling budget cut...
Three current and former Google Inc. executives, including chief legal officer David Drummond, were convicted in an Italian co...