While state property and family laws may treat married same-sex couples the same as married heterosexual couples, the federal ...

The Equal Protection Clause does not allow public employees to make individualized claims of employment discrimination, the U....

Agreeing to hear an appeal by Philip Morris for the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would again take a look...

For many parties in mediation and litigation matters, the perception of being treated fairly is more important than the actual...

A California woman has won a rare victory in a debt arbitration from the National Arbitration Forum, an agency that has drawn ...

Rejecting a patent holder's bid to collect multiple rounds of royalties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that ...

In the first court loss for Taser International, a federal jury in San Jose has awarded $6.2 million to the family of a Salina...

McDermott brings on new partner from Latham & Watkins.

LOS ANGELES - Former employees of the mortgage industry in Los Angeles County have an opportunity to receive job training and ...

Judge Barbara Kronlund says juvenile court is the most important assignment she has had because you can affect a child's life ...

Six months in, Alex Kozinski has started strong as chief judge of the nation's biggest federal appellate court. ...

No vacancy. That was the welcome that powerhouse Los Angeles litigator John Quinn and his legal team received recently when th...

Eight new members have been appointed to the Judicial Council, the policy making body for courts throughout the state. ...

In the ideal interdependent mentoring relationship there exists mutual fulfillment, compassion, respect, open communication an...

9th Circuit judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt brought their left-right road-show to Beverly Hills Thursday night. The...

A recent Supreme Court decision limits the ability of parties to contract to more expansive standards of review for arbitral a...

It's been decades since former Republican Congressman Thomas J. Campbell worked at a law firm, but come this summer he will be...

Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is shuttering its Redwood Shores outpost at the end of the month. ...

Three lawyers in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office were laid off last week and more cuts might be coming in the wak...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, who presided over Roman Polanski's 1977 prosecution and convic...

The three U.S. Supreme Court justices whose stock holdings have forced them to recuse themselves from recent cases have each s...

Already accused by several foreign governments and its leading rival of antitrust violations, semiconductor giant Intel Corp. ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Geoffrey Goodman joined Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott's Sacramento office as a partner from Sacramento firm Murphy Austi...

First it was the tiny Delta smelt that forced big cuts in Californian's water use. Now it is the salmon's chance to make a spl...

Plaintiffs trying to sue companies for securities fraud scored a win Thursday at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Despit...

In order to combat piracy in India and here at home, enforcement agencies should educate and create awareness among the public...

A jury has awarded a disabled teacher $1.4 million in her suit against the Montebello School District, agreeing that administr...

When China hosts this year's Olympic Games, many visiting journalists and spectators will be allowed freedoms that still aren'...

"Love contracts" can provide significant protection against liability for employers that use them appropriately, writes James ...