An emergency measure recently signed into law is intended to help developers and builders in this uncertain real estate market...

“A permanent ban on home construction cannot be based merely on a fear of personal injury or significant property damage,” Pre...

In democratic societies, individuals get to choose whose religious rules — if any — they want to live by, which is why Proposi...

A bill to limit arbitration in consumer contracts that had strong backing from plaintiffs' attorneys has failed to gain the go...

A Riverside jury has awarded a retired lawyer $11.6 million for auto accident injuries he claimed were caused by Caltrans' neg...

In a decision that could inspire more city-sponsored health care programs across the country, a federal appeals court on Tuesd...

Same-sex divorce is "a ripe area for mediation," said Los Angeles family law mediator and attorney Diane Goodman of Goodman Me...

A nine-attorney group, including five corporate and real estate partners, has jumped to the Century City office of Seyfarth Sh...

Did the government violate the Fourth Amendment during a sweeping seizure of the medical records and drug testing results of M...

In-house attorneys are continuing to draw bigger salaries, but large corporations are employing fewer of them, a survey releas...

A closely watched proposal aimed at paying volunteer court mediators for their services has suffered a defeat by the State Bar...

A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act would amend the regulations implementing Section 7, which requires federal age...

Web Exclusive - The criminal stock options case against McAfee Inc.'s former general counsel went to a jury Tuesday, and seeme...

Top antitrust litigator Robert G. Badal will be departing Heller Ehrman for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's Los Angele...

On privacy grounds, a U.S. magistrate judge granted a protective order blocking satellite television provider EchoStar from fi...

Lawyers for homeowners who claim failed IndyMac Bank cheated them won a quick and potentially significant victory Tuesday agai...

Lawyers for Mattel have asked a federal judge to bar rival toymaker MGA Entertainment from continuing to make or sell the popu...

Tax reform should include a simplification of the process, so everyone can choose a vastly less complicated system with only t...

A new revolution in trying cases is brewing: cognitive science, writes Robert D Brain.

Web Exclusive - Starting today, San Francisco smokers won't find their cigarettes at Walgreens or any other drug store. They c...

When a call to a credit card company is answered by a worker in India, most consumers no longer bat an eye. Companies have lon...

Web Exclusive - The mid-size firm that represented the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and White House intern Monica Lewinsky is...

Web Exclusive - A bill that would have increased funding for community mediation programs by $5 million has fallen victim to t...

Joshua Tree lawyer Kassie Siegel has emerged as the face of the successful effort to get the polar bear listed as a threatened...

Entertainment industry officials Monday hailed the passage of a scaled-down bill that will add an intellectual property enforc...

Protecting political speech is crucial to our democracy, even when such speech occurs inside of a schoolyard, writes Taylor An...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have provided interpreters for high-priority civil cases in Los Angele...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman swooped up Thelen's China practice, taking 20 attorneys from the San Francisco-based firm, Pil...

Sacramento Judge Peter J. McBrien was recently the subject of a recall effort led by angry litigants. Now, he's in trouble wit...

With opening statements barely a week away, famed Los Angeles litigator Thomas J. Nolan of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &...