A high court ruling against Good Samaritans encourages people to mind their own business rather than attempt to help someone i...

As Los Angeles voters readied to go to the polls today, the race for city attorney heated up Monday with the three top candida...

Thanks to the 9th Circuit, a law against selling violent video games to minors met its death.

Longtime Morrison & Foerster entertainment partner Daniel McIntosh has jumped to Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & N...

President Barack Obama's Department of Justice has reversed the Bush Administration's legal strategy in a federal death penalt...

A convicted rapist's argument that he has a constitutional right to review DNA evidence met with a mixed reception before the ...

Philadelphia law firm Blank Rome opened for business in Los Angeles on Monday with a new office headed by former partners from...

Marijuana is just the type of green that Sacramento needs.

Riverside County courts dismiss more criminal cases than any other in the state for missing trial deadlines.

San Francisco-based attorney James C. Sturdevant worries that class action lawsuits could be severely restricted if the Califo...

Despite written orders from a pair of the most prominent jurists on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal governm...

In a case closely watched by government and labor lawyers statewide, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge threw out a lawsuit cl...

Luce Forward laid out last year an ambitious agenda for expansion across the state. Now managing partner Kurt L. Kicklighter i...

The 5th Circuit Judicial Council's inept handling of a misconduct case is a shining example of what not to do.

The courtroom was packed, and attorneys dressed in their best suits argued passionately about arson, free speech and other hot...

Barry Bonds walked thousands of times in his baseball career, and he may do it again - out of the courtroom.

A federal judge has ruled that Activision Publishing Inc., the Santa Monica-based maker of the popular "Guitar Hero" video gam...

The Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins, which laid off 190 associates and 250 staff members, is often viewed as an industr...

Attorneys have been using decision trees to perform cost-benefit analyses for years - but they're far from ideal.

Sometimes the most innovative changes a firm can make are also the simplest and cheapest.

Chapman University School of Law, where visiting assistant law professor Kathy Z. Heller teaches, has been quietly building a ...

Orange County's appellate justices will get new digs after all. In December, a little-known state panel called the Pooled Mon...

Alexander S. Polsky says his aptitude for ADR work came from teaching special education.

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Some California agencies have gotten hot and bothered by efforts to implement solar energy systems around the state.

Insistence on "reasonable demands" before parties submit to mediation can very quickly lead to impasse.

Whether its sidling up to sushi bars or slipping into spandex to run around on treadmills, Los Angeles has always had a knack ...

The CEOs of music industry giants Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Live Nation Inc. had a long week on Capitol Hill defendi...

The district attorney is stepping back from an agreement with public defenders to handle as many as 140 sex offender cases und...

Unlike in the private sector, public employers need to provide employees with certain due process rights before commencing lay...