Jeremiah Ho of Whittier Law School analyzes Kairy v. SuperShuttle International and its impact on driver lawsuits and p...

When attorney Samuel Jefferson Frazier's home office near Ramona burned down in 2007, he moved to Arizona but kept on practici...

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On Tuesday, three federal judges, who had previously ruled in August that overcrowding was causing poor conditions in prison m...

All new buildings in the state will soon have to be easy on the environment, thanks to passage of a major initiative of Gov. A...

Just one day after creating an exploratory committee, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced Tuesday that...

Riverside County officials decided Tuesday to offer early retirement to 78 Superior Court employees to attempt to avoid layoff...

Prosecutors are recommending Don Haidl, the ex-Orange County assistant sheriff who was the main witness in the corruption tria...

A county-run probation camp for juvenile offenders routinely denied residents a basic education and failed to prepare their re...

A black inmate convicted of murder and serving a life sentence at High Desert State Prison can sue the warden for racial discr...

Marriage is a basic civil right that has been withheld over time from various groups of people in the United States in a punit...

Clare Pastore of USC Gould School of Law says the purpose of AB 590 is to examine the effects of expanding assistance to low-i...

Seven months after a federal judge dismissed the campaign finance case against prominent Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce O'D...

Patrick Santos of The Law Offices of Ronald Richards & Associates writes about the issue of "innocent-convicts" and the at...

D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenza provides clarity to the area of law governing employees disabled by pregnancy.

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The U.S. Supreme Court seemed sympathetic Tuesday to a man seeking the return of his son to Chile after his ex-wife violated a...

Attorney Jonathan Petrus says despite arguments against the billable hour, this system remains the prominent method for law fi...

Dan Finn of the Finn Financial Group comments on the use of qualified settlement funds to settle lawsuits during the recession.

Two of the lobbying groups with the most influence over federal legislation impacting the legal landscape unveiled their 2010 ...

Keith Bishop of Allen Matkins says the state's business naming problem is caused by a Rube Goldberg system for filing names wi...

Marvel Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against the heirs of late artist Jack Kirby to block the family's attempts at reclaim...

Los Angeles Superior Court will close one of its seven complex litigation courtrooms, effective April 12, for budgetary reason...

The U.S. Department of Justice has sworn in five new immigration judges in Southern California. ...

Trial attorney and longtime Irell & Manella partner Morgan Chu announced Monday that he and his wife, Helen, are giving $2...

In the heart of the city's notorious Tenderloin district, where people are more likely to light crack pipes than candles, a fe...

The U.S. Supreme Court summarily reversed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday in a habeas corpus case out of Nevada i...

Less than a year after ruling that defendants have a right to cross-examine laboratory technicians, the U.S. Supreme Court con...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal to close a $20 billion shortfall for 2010-11 hit many agencies hard, but the stat...

District Attorney Steve Cooley announced Monday he has formed an exploratory committee to suss out a run for attorney general,...