A coalition of civil rights attorneys filed a federal class action lawsuit Thursday against Los Angeles County authorities in ...

The Judicial Council will hold two public forums in Southern California on Monday and Wednesday to discuss its draft proposal ...

A Mattel attorney Thursday grilled a manager at competitor MGA Entertainment, who Mattel claims helped a former designer pitch...

The California Supreme Court has repeatedly made groundbreaking decisions that protect our state's children in new ways, and t...

Attorneys for veterans suing the Department of Veterans Affairs accused the federal government Thursday of withholding a cruci...

Web Exclusive - McDermott, Will & Emery has lured a four-attorney finance group from DLA Piper's Los Angeles office, inclu...

The Senate approved a $5 billion proposal Thursday to replace or renovate up to 40 courthouses that are no longer considered s...

Two more partners from Perkins Coie, Peter Dehlinger and Judy M. Mohr, have jumped ship to King & Spalding.

The California Supreme Court is poised to issue its second gay-friendly ruling of the year. ...

Working to boost their claim that a rival toy company stole its idea for a popular doll, lawyers for Mattel on Wednesday showe...

After remarkable growth in its Bay Area intellectual property practice, Howrey said this week that the firm is turning its att...

The City Council approved a new funding package Wednesday to handle the defense of lawsuits arising from last year's May Day m...

recent state high court ruling should provide some comfort to technology licensing professionals that under California law the...

Six attorneys in Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal's California offices will leave the firm as part of firmwide layoffs that h...

The Inner City Law Center has more than doubled the amount of money the organization raised last year through its annual fundr...

The lead defense attorney for Pfizer Inc. in the company's product liability litigation over the painkillers Bextra and Celebr...

Web Exclusive - Two wage and hour class actions against television studios and reality show production companies can continue,...

California courts will have to wait at least until next year for 50 new judges to ease crowded dockets around the state. ...

Well-known legal ethics and constitutional law expert Ronald D. Rotunda will join the law school faculty at Chapman University...

The court was right in deeming the pandering of child pornography to be outside the First Amendment's grasp, writes Taylor And...

The San Diego County Bar Foundation has inducted six attorneys to the Distinguished Lawyers Memorial.

Arbitration already has its own small-screen star in Judge Judy, the feisty former judge who arbitrates small claims cases to ...

Refusing to examine California arbitration law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal seeking to force a San Di...

Bodies found in an upscale Orange County home were identified Tuesday as belonging to an accident reconstruction expert witnes...

Policymakers hoping to refine the way we learn about new drugs should not open the door to more lawsuits, writes John H. Sulli...

hree years after losing his re-election bid for mayor, James K. Hahn is seeking a return to the public life - as a judge. ...

Mediators today must shed the "one size fits all" formula and adopt an array of approaches to add much more to the process tha...

Can a onetime payment of $3,000 make up for the misery suffered by the survivors of the Holocaust? ...

Kicking off a fiercely litigated trial over a popular children's doll, a lawyer for Mattel told a federal court jury Tuesday t...

The California Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that could change the scope of the state's mediation confide...