Focus Column - By Sarah M. King - This week, in eBay v. MercExchange, the Supreme Court stepped definitively into the patent r...

Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - Popular cable channel VH1 runs a regular segment called "Best Week Ever," which typically f...

Employment Column - By John A. Vogt - Obtaining summary judgment in defense of a discrimination claim is difficult, to say the...

Billionaire investor Ron Burkle has fought to keep his high-profile divorce from the public eye, but on Thursday, an appellate...

LOS ANGELES - A popping sound came from the boys' bathroom. Moments later, a 15-year old boy emerged, spraying more bullets in...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a two-year labor contract Thursday with a union representing state lawyers and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland public-interest group is filing suit today to keep the Federal Emergency Management Agency from cut...

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday could drastically change how lower courts handle patent ...

The state's high court concluded Thursday that a former Alameda County prosecutor lied about colluding with a judge to kick Je...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday charged one of the world's most successful class action firms, M...

SANTA ANA - Judge Wendy S. Lindley doesn't refer to most of the convicted felons who appear in her court as defendants. To L...

LOS ANGELES - When a federal judge told Los Angeles County it could not close a rehabilitation center providing specialized me...

Federal Court rulings from March 2006 created conflicts of authority on important issues affecting businesses and government o...

Her father was a cook. Her mother was a homemaker. But Dalila Corral Lyons became a judge. When Lyons enrolled at the Univers...

LOS ANGELES - After several days of intense negotiations in Washington, D.C., attorneys working to stave off the indictment of...

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous federal jury on Wednesday rejected a claim for damages against former San Francisco police officer...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not just fly-by-night bandits who make unauthorized copies of computer software. The Los Angeles County ...

Pepsi, apparently, goes down easier than Coke. At least that's the implication from the Coca-Cola Co.'s feisty reaction to a ...

LOS ANGELES - Paramount Pictures chief Brad Grey has asked a judge to stay a movie producer's suit seeking to add him as a def...

SAN FRANCISCO_Sometime in the middle of the night last Friday, the federal government asserted the formidable state secrets pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Not long after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, court business in Louisiana and Mississippi struggled...

SACRAMENTO - Patterson Wheeler, a new lobbying firm, has sprouted near the state's Capitol with a single client: California Bu...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - At the conclusion of most depositions the table is littered with documents produced by o...

Focus Column - Heather N. Mewes and Darren E. Donnelly - Patentees enter every jury trial with one distinct advantage: an of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Telecommunications giant AT&T Tuesday asked a federal judge to close his courtroom during the first hearin...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren, whose high-profile cases included the same-sex marriage lawsu...

LOS ANGELES - Robert B. Taylor liked to jokingly tell friends he was downsizing when he retired from the Los Angeles Police De...

LOS ANGELES - As their embattled law firm works to stave off a federal indictment, David Bershad and Steven Schulman, two name...

LOS ANGELES-One of two Vioxx cases that appeared headed for consolidation into one liability trial in Los Angeles could be dis...

WASHINGTON - Conservative activists vented their frustration Tuesday when the Republican-led Senate rubberstamped the nominati...