Does what happen in mediation stay in mediation? That's what the state Supreme Court recently had to decide, writes Joel McCab...

With thousands of Thai and Cambodian troops amassing, and facing each other just a few feet apart with their weapons leveled, ...

In a bid to force the U.S. government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from planes and oceangoing ships, California and se...

Web Exclusive - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a Santa Clara County attorney can be sued for ...

Web Exclusive - Doctors in California who accept Medi-Cal payments have been dealt a blow as a judge denied an injunction that...

Companies that turned over confidential documents to the government during the U.S. Justice Department's Thompson Memo era sho...

The attorney for MGA Entertainment cites a 9th Circuit decision saying a single juror's bias is enough for a mistrial in tryin...

We cannot simply ignore known, effective answers to the single largest greenhouse gas problem in the state and still hope to a...

Bingham McCutchen has strengthened its corporate practice with the hiring of James J. Thompson, a corporate and private equity...

Senators appear no closer to a solution over the tricky issue of formulating what performance royalties Internet, cable, and s...

Arthur “A.B.” Culvahouse, chairman of Los Angeles-based powerhouse O’Melveny & Myers, faces controversy in his bid to lead...

The elephant at 9th U.S. Circuit's conference here is the muted presence of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. Looming large is the mi...

The subject was executive power and the question for a panel of authorities at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ annual j...

California's Attorney General Jerry Brown took aim at corporate giant Nestle Tuesday saying the environmental review for a lar...

A 2005 case appeared to slam the door on a party’s right to move for reconsideration. Now, a new case has cracked that door ba...

The capacity to capture information about someone does not necessarily mean that privacy is threatened, writes John Nockleby. ...

Sen. Barbara Boxer is putting her reputation in jeopardy by holding up the nomination of a well-qualified judge to the federal...

Web Exclusive - The San Diego City Council Tuesday approved a $2.8 million settlement with the law firm of Orrick Herrington &...

Web Exclusive - A report by Cornerstone Research and Stanford University Law School’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse fo...

On Tuesday, the non-profit Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation filed an amended complaint against the U.S. government that alleges ...

Sheppard Mullin adds patent litigator as special counsel.

Law in many ways is like fiction, with motivation, character and even reality being endlessly revealed, writes Nora Quinn. - F...

At least the judge soon will know why the entire Los Angeles-based U.S. attorney’s office — except two Orange County prosecuto...

A trucking industry group sued the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Monday after months of wrangling over the ports' plans ...

John McCain, McCain, once a beacon of hope for many who support immigration reform, has succumbed to conservatives and is slow...

Statutory limited liability serves the legislative objective of promoting new business risk, though at times individual credit...

A damning Justice Department report issued Monday found that the most egregious example of inappropriate political interferenc...

A federal appeals court has ruled the Bush administration must provide bond hearings to immigrants held in prolonged detention...

Sex offenders have a constitutional right to testify in a civil commitment proceeding over their lawyer's objection before a j...

Afam Onyema decided to forgo a promising career in corporate law to help start a foundation to raise money for a hospital that...