An unknown number of personal injury and wrongful death cases and potential cases against GM and Chrysler are being virtually ...

A line formed Wednesday outside the Los Angeles Superior Court Metropolitan Courthouse as the first day of court furloughs began.

Not all courts will be furloughing employees to meet the Administrative Office of the Court's cost-reduction plans. Some will ...

The state Supreme Court recently confirmed that wage-and-hour cases brought pursuant to the Unfair Competition Law must be bro...

Although a federal judge had rejected the same argument in another case, a Department of Justice attorney argued to the judge ...

A federal judge ruled that insurance companies must pay a portion of MGA Entertainment's legal costs in its ongoing litigation...

The state's judicial watchdog agency barred former Los Angeles County Commissioner Ann Dobbs from receiving further judicial a...

The United States may unilaterally impose restrictions on carbon emissions, but it will not solve the global climate change pr...

After a seven-year deadlock that ended only with the Bush administration taking an offramp to oblivion, California now has a g...

Now that the California Supreme Court is finished with same-sex marriage, a new hot-button issue has emerged on the court's do...

In the calculations of the judicial mind there is an evolving sense of how and when the Constitution should be reinterpreted t...

Demurrers absorb significant court resources and should be demolished, writes Dan Lawton.

On the third day of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing, several senators pressed her to reveal ...

Union power could be on the rebound, and these five lawyers are ready. ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce warns that more union-friendly labor and employment laws could cost jobs and economic recovery.

A former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board outlines the labor and employment reforms the Obama administration has...

There is a bright spot in the recession, at least for labor and employment lawyers. The waves of layoffs have sparked a boom i...

The U.S. work force could be undergoing a dramatic shift away from permanent employees and toward temporary, contingent worker...

President Barack Obama is poised to enact pro-worker policies that will fundamentally reshape labor and employment law. Alread...

With the Obama administration poised to enact more worker-friendly legislation, the Daily Journal offers its first-ever labor ...

Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are no strangers to allegations of "click fraud." Those cases have settled. Now it's Facebook's turn.

James Sanders, a former regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Los Angeles, is decamping from McDermot...

It is not uncommon to find that laid-off employees executed agreements granting far-reaching IP ownership rights to their form...

Judge castigates lawyer for statements made about the forensic auditor appointed in the case.

The Michael Jackson estate has already offered a handful of valuable lessons for estate planners, writes Diane Klein.

The ACLU and Munger, Tolles & Olson sued the city of Santa Monica Tuesday, alleging its police officers engage in unconsti...

Six years after San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison went bankrupt, two law firms that took on former Brobeck partn...

Momentum is building among legislators to cross the political minefield that has long blocked efforts to end controversial fed...

These 10 lawyers kept employers honest and, in some cases, helped push reforms.

The 12 monthly court closures is expected to save $17.6 million in the nation's largest court system.