The attorneys who stood up to the government's appalling military commissions should be applauded for taking on great risk to ...

A state appellate court was right to recognize that no child should have wait for the day when his or her birth father is reha...

Prosecutors have opposed a double jeopardy claim by accused pornographer Ira Isaacs, whose federal obscenity case resulted in...

Web Exclusive - A San Bernardino attorney has been swept up in a federal child pornography investigation that netted 55 men, t...

Web Exclusive - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sidetracked a city controller's investigation last week, but he may...

More than 90 hospitals throughout California failed to obey a recall and remove tainted vials of the blood-thinning drug hepar...

Six attorneys were elected to partnership at Loeb & Loeb in its New York and Los Angeles offices.

In June, Joseph R. Re became president of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. That is the professional group for lawyers who ...

Though she comes from a long line of sheepherders, San Diego County Judge Eugenia Eyherabide decided to follow a lone uncle ...

“The Supreme Court has spoken loud and clear and full that equal services are for everyone in California,” said Lamda Legal la...

Class representatives deserve extra compensation for bearing burdens not shared by the other class members; it is only fair th...

The clear lesson of a recent 9th Circuit case is to file notices of appeal by hand and not to rely on the mail, write Richard ...

Lawyers doing business in China should brush up on the cultural intracacies that play a huge role in business transactions the...

Superior Court Judge Alexander H. Williams III is about to take his first job ever in the private sector. ...

A Mexican man, imprisoned for a year when a vehicle he bought from the U.S. government was found loaded with marijuana, has be...

Web Exclusive - The State Bar filed a response to a lawsuit that seeks a racial and ethnic breakdown of the test scores and ac...

Federal trial judges can probe the makeup of the government's notorious No-Fly List, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...

As assistant presiding judge for Ventura's criminal courts, Kevin J. McGee said one of the biggest challenges these days is ...

An 82-attorney New Jersey insurance defense firm will open a San Francisco office.

D.A. Dolores Carr told a State Bar court that while Deputy District Attorney Benjamin Field's conduct may have fallen technica...

Lawyers like trying civil cases in Judge Richard B. Wolfe's Los Angeles courtroom. They say his respectful attitude and willin...

Many courts long have recognized that an insured’s failure to comply with a notification provision is not an absolute bar to c...

The defense team for attorney Terry N. Christensen began calling witnesses Friday, starting with a phone technician in an effo...

Since the 1970s, Kaiser Permanente subscribers have been barred from exercising their constitutional right to a jury trial whe...

After 12 years at Latham & Watkins’ Orange County office, corporate partner Jonn Beeson jumped to Jones Day’s Irvine offic...

Although the Supreme Court has repeatedly said that “children do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate,...

About two months out of the year, Los Angeles attorney Lee T. Paterson wakes up to the gobbling of wild turkeys poking for bug...

In a bid to drive down the potential damages exposure for MGA Entertainment in the Bratz doll case, a financial expert testify...

California's dependency courts are under pressure and lack the resources to do an adequate job of protecting foster children a...

A bitter legal struggle between Fish & Richardson and a former attorney it accused of betrayal because he allegedly used h...