Nine federal agencies announced a major effort Wednesday to cut the time it takes to build new transmission lines on public la...

Attorneys for the Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, embroiled in contentious trade secrets...

In a strong indication he will rise to the post of U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, the FBI has begun inv...

Mike Willemsen of Santa Clara University explains why arguments against gay marriage lack credit as a basis for legislation. ...

William J. Ruehle, the former chief financial officer of Broadcom who is now on criminal trial for an alleged securities fraud...

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Adams & Heald, a Texas-based trial defense f...

Crystal Rockwood of Rockwood Communications says that top executives have a keen eye on manners when hiring attorneys. ...

The future of four prison inmates in California could hang in the balance when the U.S. Supreme Court debates next month wheth...

A lawyer and former professor at a Christian law school has been charged with forging a federal judge's signature on an order ...

Months after the state's corrections department said it would nix a rule that prohibits transient sex offender parolees from s...

Superior Court Judge Maria Hernandez gives 100 percent in her Orange County courtroom and in the boxing ring

Commissioner Sharon Lewis Miller was a stay-at-home mom and a school teacher before going to law school. She says she brings a...

Some associates' pay at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis will have been reduced 40 percent, following a second r...

Brian Kabateck of Kabateck Brown Kellner asks, can you have your cake and eat it too when seeking class certification in the C...

A controversial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to let five terror suspects sue over their claims of torture will b...

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled Tuesday that the GOP may block U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. C...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney has charged four lawyers with taking part in a massive auto insurance fraud ring that...

A Broadcom employee testified Tuesday that she warned the company's former CFO, who is now on trial, that backdating stock opt...

The Congressional Budget Office has found ending the antitrust exemptions for health care and medical malpractice insurance co...

The retrial of two former McKesson Corp. executives accused of securities fraud opened this week and will likely last through ...

John Taylor Jr. of Horvitz & Levy summarizes select changes in the California Rules of Court, affecting civil appellate pr...

Anthony DiResta of Manatt address the reality, challenges and opportunities of the FTC Guides regulating social media. ...

Jose Allen, Kenneth Berlin, Don Frost Jr. and Stacy Kray of Skadden spotlight recent rulings in climate change litigation. ...

Reed Smith joined the march of law firms abandoning lockstep advancement of associates Tuesday when it announced a merit syste...

Pressure continues to build on the Administrative Office of the Courts as it faces a Legislative committee hearing today on it...

The Administrative Office of the Courts' long-sought computer system - one of the most expensive in state history - is costing...

Successful trade secret misappropriation cases can bring huge payouts in the tens of millions of dollars, but only if you can ...

"You can't rely on speculation that a departing employee may use a trade secret," said Buchalter Nemer attorney Richard Darwin...

Jeremiah Ho of Whittier Law School looks at the phenomenon of hotel mortgage defaults and concept of a market reset. ...

Trial attorney G. Christopher Ritter instructs on a method of trial preparation that focuses on the dynamic of the jury. ...