Judge George Wu questions the criminal theory at the heart of the case, with lawyers expected to file briefs Monday.

Beverly Hills trial lawyer Paul Kiesel lobbied to preserve court review in the rescue bill in order to protect 50 class action...

Sarah Palin's need for a CliffsNotes version of important Supreme Court cases highlights the dangers a McCain presidency would...

White & Case is beefing up its intellectual property practice, snagging a group of five McDermott, Will & Emery partne...

A Bel Air man won a $957,700 arbitration award against companies he alleged sold him a bike with defects that caused him to tu...

A federal judge has kept alive a class action claim that Apple Inc. violated antitrust law by disabling any iPhone that a cons...

U.S. District Judge George P. Schiavelli announced he will join dispute resolution shop JAMS as a private judge as well as the...

Friday's announcement by Cooley Godward Kronish ended speculation over where some of the prominent members of the dissolving H...

Web Exclusive - U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel of San Francisco late Friday halted a daylong courthouse shuffle over RealNe...

The Los Angeles County Commission on Disabilities will present the Jane Small Advocacy Award to the HIV & AIDS Legal Servi...

A recent 9th Circuit ruling on timely filings shows how the interests of justice are best served by a more forgiving approach ...

Alec Baldwin’s new book on divorce and custody promotes a controversial legal strategy that places abused children in danger, ...

A federal jury on Friday returned a not guilty verdict on two counts of mail fraud against McAfee Inc.'s former general counse...

Nancy Hudgins is seeking a new intellectual pursuit, and it's not a game of chess or advanced mathematics. It's conflict resol...

Term limits exacerbate some of the pathologies of the political process, such as overly quick policy responses and insufficien...

Picture this: You and your partner have not been contributing equally to your business or seeing eye to eye for quite some tim...

A jury has awarded $3.1 million to an officer who claimed the Los Angeles Police Department retaliated against him for accusin...

Letters to the Editor - Parties in coerced arbitrations never see justice.

Government approvals are arguably the most challenging aspect for foreign investors of completing a deal in China, writes Simo...

Employers must work closely with employees who need accomodations and employees' doctors to review all determine if the employ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her former colleague, Justice Stephen Breyer, warned Thursday that a flo...

Environmentalists launched a new wave of attacks against the Bush administration's treatment of endangered species Thursday, f...

The increasingly high-profile debate over the extent to which federal law trumps state law takes center stage Monday when the ...

A wrongful death lawsuit brought against individual public health officials by the family of a former detained immigrant can m...

A former Reed Smith partner has joined the newly formed Los Angeles office of Alston & Bird.

Two weeks after a federal judge rejected his suit, a persistent talent manager refuses to give up his fight against the state ...

The U.S. Supreme Court chose Wednesday not to revisit its sharply divided June decision to ban execution as a punishment for c...

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide to what extent courts can apportion the cost of cleaning up Superfund sites among different...

Months after recall alerts went out, more than a dozen California hospitals continued giving tainted heparin to hundreds of pa...

A Court of Appeal has upheld a legal malpractice judgment against Los Angeles attorney Eddie Jamison. He is accused of failing...