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...

Irell & Manella has settled a $150 million malpractice claim leveled against the firm by one of its major clients, accordi...

Oakland-based law firm Meyers Nave is leading an internal affairs investigation into the conduct of the officers present at th...

In his book "Privacy: The Lost Right," John L. Mills examines personal privacy rights in today's intrusive world. ...

Family law judges sometimes lean too far in the direction of granting restraining orders when there are not sufficient legal b...

Mathew Musladin has apparently run out of chances. After a five-year saga in which Musladin's case reached the Supreme Court...

A state appeals panel has unanimously ruled that civil clergy abuse claims brought by six brothers against Catholic Church off...