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...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed an important employment law victory to workers Tuesday, ruling that a long-standing civil rights...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Jeffrey M. Harkavy made his career choice as a high school student and, after 2...

Washington D.C.-based Howrey has added former Heller Ehrman partner Paul Alexander to the firm's East Palo Alto office.

In these lean times, law firms are taking their cues from clients who are demanding cheaper legal services. Among the solution...

The Grand Rabbi of Spinka, the head of a Brooklyn-based Hasidic sect who faces federal charges related to an alleged tax-fraud...

The duty of reciprocal discovery presents many issues in criminal cases, writes Robert M. Martinez. - Focus Column ...

An end of an era for one firm leads to another firm's gain. ...

When lawyers think about entertainment litigation, they usually imagine a multimillion-dollardispute involving a major studio ...

In a move fueled by the inclement economic forecast, John M. Rosenthal, a former member of Nixon Peabody's managing committee,...

The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today on how far appellate courts should go when trying to detect racial...

A federal judge has decided to let a jury determine whether an artist sketched the concept for the popular Bratz dolls while w...

The state will argue before an appellate court today that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger legally was empowered to order the trans...

Judge Paul P. Burdick continues to draw high-profile cases, from aerial spraying of the apple moth to a custody case that ende...

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

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli