The Federal Circuit recently upheld an important test as the standard for determining whether a design patent has been infring...

The LAPD can claim credit for the things it has done to address racial bias, but with the stark disparities shown by the ACLU ...

A state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $1.5 million jury verdict against City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo for firing a ...

Where the LAPD sees crime reduction in neighborhoods with a significant police presence, the ACLU misses the forest for the tr...

A federal prosecutor Wednesday morning drew a sharp contrast between Orange County's public Sheriff Mike Carona and the "secre...

A federal jury has awarded San Diego's Sempra Energy $48.5 million, agreeing with claims that an insurance adviser negligently...

Reed Smith nabs a former Morrison & Foerster partner for its Silicon Valley-based corporate practice group.

In a landmark human rights abuse trial that began Tuesday with opening statements in San Francisco federal court, Robert A. Mi...

While there have been large bankruptcies in the past, few have involved companies of the size or scope of AIG, and even fewer ...

Restructuring our system so that financial institutions cannot pick their regulator is a plan that is sorely needed, writes La...

Mexico is undergoing a fundamental legal and political crisis, a fact that should be cause for close attention in our local le...

Google Inc.'s settlement with trade organizations representing authors and publishers opens the way for the Mountain View-base...

The management of Thelen recommended to its partners on Tuesday that the firm close its doors effective Dec. 1, marking the se...

As the corruption trial of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and his alleged mistress begins today, federal prosecutors...

Reed Smith adds a partner and associate from Morgan Lewis.

Jane Lueke Johnson has made the transition to the judiciary the same way she runs her races - one step at a time. ...

The face on the campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California is an attorney. ...

"That he found himself detained in another location was, at that point, a circumstance of his own creation," Justice Carol Cor...

If approved by a San Jose bankruptcy judge, Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin & Brill would settle a complaint for breach of f...

In the present business climate, keeping a vigilant eye on the financial well-being of clients who are members of an LLC is si...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will pay 15 California government and municipality agencies $160 million in a se...

A Superior Court judge Monday sentenced a Palm Springs transient to 15 years to life in prison for murdering former State Bar ...

The state's judicial watchdog agency Monday scolded a retired San Bernardino County judge for rude and demeaning comments to a...

Yolo County has improved its system for choosing racially representative grand juries after a prominent Hispanic man complaine...

Web Exclusive - A federal judge on Monday handed identical six-month prison sentences to the last two class action lawyers imp...

Employees who feel they've been discriminated against can try to resolve the problem internally without fear they'll lose thei...

Orange County supervisors are set to approve today a plan to build an expanded DNA lab that would be overseen jointly by the s...

U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer denied attorney Terry N. Christensen’s motions for a new wiretapping trial Monday, rejecti...

Pro bono service is the best way for lawyers to invest themselves in the type of charitable and volunteer service called for b...

A recent 9th Circuit decision highlights the importance of accurate drafting, not only for stock purchase agreements, but for ...