Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward Kronish laid off 58 staff members, constituting a 7 percent reduction of its staff workforce na...
Entertainment & Sports
Judge Gives Preliminary OK to Writers' Settlement
By Jean Luc Renault
A judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement between screenwriters and the Writers Guild of America West over tens o...
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson released a proposed rule Wednesday aimed at curbing climate change. ...
David Ackerly of Inner City Law Center says the battle between veterans and obtaining service-related disability compensation ...
Thomas Penfield of Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield tells the story of Lester Tenney, a Japanese prisoner o...
A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against Stanford University in its patent infringement lawsuit on Wednes...
Jeffrey Freedman and Elizabeth Avedikian of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore address the effect of Rutti v. Lojack Corp., Inc. ...
The explosive issue of gun rights is back at the U.S. Supreme Court after the justices agreed Wednesday to hear whether the 2n...
Lawyers representing a landlord in her fight against a high-profile plaintiff's attorney show they are ready to go all the way...
The California Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to hear criminal defense attorney Dennis Riordan's complaint about a flaw i...
O'Melveny & Myers has begun returning four floors in its original Los Angeles headquarters to building owner Tishman Speye...
Lawrence McQuillan of the Pacific Research Institute says forum shopping and lawsuit abuse has made a game out of the bankrupt...
Marco Turk of California State University Dominguez Hills says creative lawyering skills are needed to resolve disputes in med...
A California federal judge told a Senate panel Wednesday that the state's Eastern District is the most overloaded in the count...
The State Supreme court on Wednesday set a date for oral arguments in a two-year-old challenge to Jessica's Law, after an arti...
A unanimous U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a district judge's decision to suppress all statements tha...
Trial judges have quietly been allowing paroled sex offenders to live near places where children gather, as they await directi...
Duane Valz of Chadbourne & Parke addresses the ramifications of the Google settlement and the future of digital book distr...
U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear 10 cases for the fall term
By Riley Guerin
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear 10 cases for the fall term ...
James Wong of Chinney Capital Ltd assesses the China tire tariffs from the Chinese perspective. ...
The legislation could revive suits in San Francisco against telecommunications companies over the Bush administration's warran...
The San Diego office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker represented owners in the reorganization of the Pittsburgh Steel...
Ronald H. Sargis will hear cases in the Eastern District; Catherine E. Bauer and Deborah J. Saltzman will hear cases in the Ce...
Joseph Rosenbaum of Reed Smith says an attempt to regulate Internet neutrality may risk unintended consequences. ...
The decision by U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ends an 18-year battle over the rights to the Winnie the Pooh franch...
A federal court has rejected the appeals of two immigrants who tried but failed to get their petitions to a lower court in tim...
In a big win for the Northern District U.S. attorney's office, InterMune's CEO was found guilty of charges stemming from a fal...
On average this year, offers were extended to just 79 percent of summer associates among 14 major law firms surveyed; that's 1...
Bernie C. LaForteza, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge ...
Chad Hummel filed motions on behalf of fugitive film director Roman Polanski that may have nudged the L.A. County district att...