A high-ranking teenage chess player in Oregon, Superior Court Commissioner David M. Hirsch still makes deft moves in his Ventu...

More than a year after Milberg LLP settled federal criminal charges by paying a $75 million fine, the tenacious class action f...

Stevan Porter illuminates both sides of the business method patent debate. ...

A recent 9th Circuit case marks the first time California's equitable tolling doctrine has been applied to toll a successive c...

O'Melveny & Myers put 62 percent of its San Francisco office space on the market Monday. It's one of many law firms nation...

California's Rules of Professional Conduct and the provisions of the Business and Professions Code governering attorneys condu...

A recent court decision could change the way Spanish-speaking American audiences get their fix from so-called telenovelas - or...

In some patent cases, jurors lack the necessary context to evaluate the contribution of a specific invention, writes David Boh...

A former paralegal at asbestos-litigation giant Brent Coon & Associates has accused the plaintiffs' firm of refusing to co...

A $2.4 million settlement paid by a Central Valley hospital group on Monday was a warning to medical providers in California t...

John A. Torribio runs a tight ship and moves through his docket quickly, and his decisions have held up under appellate scruti...

Federal officials routinely violated their own standards for detaining immigrants, often failing to provide immigrants with ac...

A child actor, Judge Jared D. Moses' stage is now a criminal courtroom in Lancaster. ...

Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, plaintiffs' attorneys now have to think twice before filing civil lawsuits in federal court....

James Donato, an antitrust litigator and recent past president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, on Monday became the f...

Lawyers have a critical role to play in the growth of the country's green economy. Like in the mercantile economy, writes Sble...

A county supervisor's call for an independent investigation of alleged misconduct by San Bernardino County District Attorney M...

A factory raid in Van Nuys brought to light some of the systemic abuses in our immigration system, writes Pamela Hartman. ...

The California Supreme Court allowed a quadriplegic Monday to take the State Bar exam although she had been disqualified due t...

The universe of affiliate marketing has been shaken by recent developments within various state tax regimes, writes Adam Snuka...

Because of a provision in the Copyright Act, Paul McCartney may be able to reclaim the rights to his songs in upcoming years, ...

Legal costs created by Broadcom's problematic stock option grants have crept past the $100 million mark, and the company's lit...

Medtronic Inc. settled all of its worldwide legal disputes Monday with Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories for $400 million the...

Office leasing activity in Los Angeles declined for the fourth straight quarter to record lows as law firms and other business...

Manisha Merchant worked at three of the country's banking behemoths before becoming vice president and senior counsel at Union...

Federal officials are investigating who is behind a letter sent to Los Angeles area employers instructing them to check their ...

Administering defendants' rights to proceed in pro per is a complicated job that every bench officer and attorney handling cri...

If you're going to be engaged with litigation involving the major studios as part of your profession, you're going to get to k...

Many midsize and smaller firms are actually employing methods to deliver more than before, writes Vadim Alden. ...

The announcement last week that two dominant dispute resolution firms would halt consumer arbitrations has fueled Democratic l...