A malicious prosecution lawsuit brought against State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co., its CEO and other officers was dismisse...

SAN FRANCISCO - California district attorneys are immune from lawsuits when they accuse government officials of violating the...

RIVERSIDE - The San Bernardino district attorney's office will no longer take three-strikes cases to Superior Court Judge Pat...

A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has some intellectual property attorneys wondering whethe...

WASHINGTON - Last October, at age 57, Walter Dellinger made a dramatic career change. After 30 years as a constitutional law ...

In an unusual wrongful termination verdict against a judge and county officials, a federal jury in Sacramento has awarded $3....

Traditional bar association activists defeated reform candidates in two contested elections for the State Bar Board of Govern...

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Within five years, every citizen called to serve on a jury in Los Angeles County will either be called as a potential juror o...

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim attorney accused of practicing law after being suspended from the State Bar and posing as another lawy...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marvin M. Mitchelson, the Los Angeles celebrity divorce lawyer who made palimony a household word, has been o...

Innovative Invention New Bill Slated to Reform Patent System By Brennan Swain, David Meyer and Rod S. Berman On May 26, the H...

Laggard lawyers will have at least until 2001 to catch up on past-due continuing legal education requirements, governors of t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prominent Pasadena attorney who met someone described as a 14-year-old girl in an online chat room and atte...

Los Angeles school officials filed a legal malpractice suit against the school district's former lawyer at O'Melveny & My...

Rejecting fears that juries will prejudge cases, a new study has found no harm in letting jurors discuss a case among themsel...

It may have started as an "Ally McBeal"-style office romance between a lawyer and a paralegal. But that was before the false ...

In what is believed to be an unprecedented action taken by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, prosecutors Thu...

A federal appeals court has ruled that neither a hospital nor an organ donor network had a duty to search for the next of kin...

By Peter Schrag Guilt serves all sorts of purposes in American politics (some of them entirely admirable) but rarely, if ever...

Ordinary People CGL Policy Covers Breach-of-Contract Damages The court explained that there was no evidence that the parties ...

By William M. Crosby "Lawsuit abuse," "tort reform," "overhauling our legal system" and "reining in out-of-control juries and...

Interpreters Picket Los Angeles Court Two months after their last protest, approximately two-dozen court interpreters Wednesd...

Grant to Fund Visitation Program SAN BERNARDINO - The Superior Court of San Bernardino has been awarded a $67,775 grant by th...

New Math Carriers Have No Duty to Settle to Avoid Punitives By Kurt Andrew Schlichter and Rikka Fountain The California Supre...

Lights, Camera, Cause of Action Legal education is becoming a trip to the tube By Paul O'Brien Out of work for much of last s...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an unusually blunt assessment of the state of the courts, Court of Appeal Justice Gary Strankman warned Mo...

UCSD Pays $4.7M For Fraud Claim SAN DIEGO - The University of California San Diego Medical Center agreed Wednesday to pay the...

The California Teachers Association is considering whether or not it will appeal a recent federal court decision to dismiss i...

Reacting to an increasing number of shootings in public places, the Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to install metal...