Three of California's most aggressive and highest-profile litigators are set to square off this summer in one of the state's h...

Patent attorneys like Lee Van Pelt, who has a successful small patent firm, demonstrate the growing importance of intellectual...

The massive pornographic movie industry that populates the San Fernando Valley has been as much a victim - if not more - of in...

Government and university research institutions are major players in the patent world, parlaying their inventions into big mon...

The day before Stac Electronics' landmark patent infringement case against Microsoft started trial, the Northridge earthquake ...

A lauded retired judge sitting by assignment for the Administrative Office of the Courts has been taken off his cases followin...

A former Beverly Hills police officer testified Tuesday that he provided sensitive law enforcement information to notorious pr...

A feud between one of the nation's largest labor unions and its West Coast affiliate has spilled into federal court. ...

Marshall T. Hunt, 1920-2008, a prominent Los Angeles trial attorney known for successfully defending Ford Motor Co. in a high-...

Forum Column - By Andrew Bridges - A landmark decision will hopefully provide a case study of the effects of "permanent specia...

Forum Column - By Kurt Osenbaugh - Transaction attorneys should give litigators a break by drafting comprehensible agreements ...

Web Exclusive - By Laura Ernde - Private plaintiffs' firms can continue to help California cities and counties pursue litigati...

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera waded headlong into a debate in Congress about the future of mandatory arbitration ...

A federal judge Tuesday denied a motion by Mattel's lawyers to bar high-profile Los Angeles attorney Tom Nolan and his firm, S...

An Orange County judge with a history of misconduct on the bench has agreed to retire after a judicial panel publicly admonish...

He was on a hit list. His plane clipped the wing of another. He foiled an armed robbery. He survived and now sits on an Orange...

Too much of a good thing can be, well, too much of a good thing. The writers and editors of the Daily Journal found that out r...

Web Exclusive - By Rebecca U. Cho - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and going...

Forum Column - By Diane Klein - Although allowing the expression of discriminatory housing preferences may be efficient and pr...

Focus Column - By Michael I. Katz and Adrianne Marshack - When one party accuses another of misappropriating trade secrets, th...

Consumer Attorneys of California, whose legislative chairman and president-elect is Christine Spagnoli, is pushing bills about...

Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers on Monday filed fraud charges against five former top San Diego officials, alleging...

Forum Column - By Jonathan Handel - Lawyers need to master the nuances of appearing on radio or TV in order to look and sound ...

A coalition of farmworkers and environmental groups has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it is overlook...

Nearly a year after U.S. Justice Department officials conceded they considered politics when hiring immigration judges, 11 new...

Focus Column - By Peter S. Selvin - Depending on the nature of the claim and the parties involved, several insurance remedies ...

Former Hollywood powerhouse Michael Ovitz is expected to testify in the trial of private investigator Anthony Pellicano as soo...

A former president of the California Judges Association has been appointed to a statewide task force aimed at improving the pr...

Steve Edwards, a leading real estate attorney, left O'Melveny & Myers on Monday, taking advantage of the firm's early reti...

The California Supreme Court decided that employees can request medical leave even when they are able to perform essentially t...