Even as state lawmakers' epic stalemate over the budget continued, they were able to resolve at least one legal issue this wee...

Global companies are often caught in a Catch 22 in situations where U.S. whistleblower laws conflict with local policies, writ...

The city of Ontario has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit brought by its police officers who claimed their priva...

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a pair of bipartisan bills last week aiming to fix tax issues ...

A case involving deeply sensitive issues showed Judicate West's Rubin Fields just how tricky it can be for a mediator to balan...

The case of two judges who allegedly took kickbacks for sending hundreds of kids to two private detention centers should serve...

President Obama's ambitious-sounding $75 billion plan to stem the foreclosure crisis will need some outside muscle to make sur...

Five lawyers are vying to replace termed-out Rocky Delgadillo: City Councilman Jack Weiss, litigator Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich, ...

Layoffs, salary cuts and furloughs are hitting California groups that provide free legal aid to the poor, sick and elderly, as...

Judge Carlton P. Biggs started up a DUI court in Newport Beach that is only one of four in the country used as a national tra...

A group of current and former low-income tenants of the Alexandria Hotel who claimed they were victims of discrimination, depl...

The small group of IP attorneys who split from San Francisco litigation boutique Keker & Van Nest has added another former...

Jones Day lawyers Erin L. Burke, Erik Swanhold and Jason C. Wright discuss how a disturbing trend of foreign corporations bein...

The city of Anaheim could collect $21.3 million from popular online travel companies — including Expedia Inc., Orbitz, Travelo...

As Congress works to draft an economic stimulus plan that could cost more than $700 billion, senators on the Judiciary Committ...

Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza stayed his decision until May 7, to give Roman Polanski a chance to appear in person. Pola...

A controversial IRS decision could reflect a sea change in the government’s approach to determining whether health care nonpro...

California's unfair competition statute is infamously broad in scope — meaning virtually any law can serve as a predicate for ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments today in a case that challenges California's planned 10 percent redu...

The American Bar Association's policymaking body put an end to a long debate Monday by adopting a model rule that will make it...

Mayer Brown has created an executive committee for the Los Angeles office — the only one of its kind at Mayer Brown — as a mea...

A class of shareholders suing software giant Oracle for stock losses in 2001 claim the company misled investors and inflated i...

Rather than stopping infringement, digital rights management has become a significant impediment to the development and market...

One of the nation’s most hard-hitting environmental advocacy groups will dramatically ramp up its efforts to combat climate ch...

Congress should create a uniform, victim-sensitive regimen to protect those forced to suffer a stake in a Ponzi case liquidati...

So the Obama administration has begun to unveil a variety of plans under consideration to tackle the foreclosure mess. Will it...

The Diocese of San Diego said it would turn over to plaintiffs' lawyers files kept on priests accused of sexual abuse - making...

Gail A. Andler said she has had a lifelong affinity for lawyers and judges and decided on a career on the bench back when she ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal recently issued two significant holdings protecting the rights of commercial tenants, writes ...

The departure of O'Melveny & Myers' Los Angeles white-collar crime practice chief James R. Asperger, who recently joined Q...