Calling it a "very serious case" of alleged homeless patient dumping, representatives for Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delg...

A landmark employment discrimination lawsuit against one of the world's largest retailers might never have happened were it no...

A coalition representing 35,000 doctors and nearly every hospital in California sued state health officials Monday in an attem...

Forum Column - -By Julia Weiland and Alison Sylvester - Immigrant raids, carried out in an atmosphere of fear, intimidation, ...

Focus Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - The state Supreme Court's finding in a statute of frauds case overruled multiple long-...

A legal team led by California litigator Pierce O'Donnell of Los Angeles' O'Donnell & Associates has won a key ruling in a...

Forum Column - By Gary Blasi - The L.A. City Council should close the "affordable housing" loophole in the Residential Hotel U...

Here are six environmental cases pending at the California Supreme Court: ...

California's seminal environmental law has been on the books for nearly 40 years, but it's having a renaissance of late with t...

The California Supreme Court on Monday struck down the death penalty for a man convicted of murder because prosecutors failed ...

Charlotte K. Ito, partner with Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps in San Francisco, specializes in international estate pla...

The federal courthouse in downtown San Diego - damaged by three nail-laden pipe bombs in an early morning blast Sunday - was s...

April closed with deal activity sharply up from March, capped by two mega transactions: Mars Inc.'s $23 billion purchase of th...

Drew Hansen and Mark Phillips, name partners of business litigation boutique Hansen & Phillips, and Michael L. Turrill, fo...

Jim Odriozola fought in Vietnam, tended bar in Mammoth and tried cases as a prosecutor and defense lawyer. Now, lawyers say, O...

Andrew M. Stein represented the elderly father of 41-year-old John Derek Chamberlain, who inmates at the Theo Lacy Facility ja...

Responding to decreased state funding that has sent student fees skyrocketing, UCLA School of Law has targeted the private sec...

Focus Column - By Keith Rohman - For lawyers, hiring the right interpreter is the critical first step in determining the quali...

The wife of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona will not have to face trial alongside her husband, a federal judge ruled ...

Forum Column - By Donald J. Kochan - Precedent is the doggy bag of law - what we do with it when we get home makes all the dif...

Forum Column - By Sujatha Ganesan - Private entities should not be allowed to track individuals' Internet activities to increa...

Life has become a series of long flights for Teresa Cheng, a Hong Kong barrister and neutral, who is this year's president of ...

As a former managing partner of Arnold & Porter in Washington D.C., Jim Jones remembers when the position of general couns...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Veteran litigator Angela Padilla has left Morrison & Foerster after 16 years to become ...

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., has introduced a bill calling for improved medical care for immigrants held in federal detent...

Few cases go to trial at Orange County's Harbor Justice Center thanks to Judge Margaret Anderson, who is amazingly deft at set...

While Merck's decision to extend the deadline for claimants joining its proposed $4.85 billion Vioxx personal-injury settlemen...

No one gets an edge with Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Applegate, who seeks to treat with respect and dig...

Charles Crompton, a Latham & Watkins San Francisco partner, was elected to chair the firm's global pro bono committee. To ...

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