Articles often extol the virtues of arbitration - such as to help avoid runaway jury awards or excessive attorney fees - but t...

A surge in design patent/trade dress litigation has strained the longstanding tension in the law between unprotected functiona...

What information may an attorney ethically disclose to the court to explain her need to withdraw from representation? That's a...

Unless a state court provides some meaningful discussion of a habeas claim, the petitioner is unlikely ever to obtain that dis...

E-discovery and an ombudsmen civility program are addressed in the Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of Business Trial La...

The attorneys of Los Angeles-based corporate firm Credo LLP - the name of which is Latin for we believe - seek to create a fle...

After a bill to limit peremptory challenges died in committee last year, the California Judges Association has introduced simi...

Paul Hastings LLP is poaching rainmaking patent litigators Yar R. Chaikovsky and Blair M. Jacobs from McDermott Will & Eme...

UC Irvine School of Law honors husband and wife with lecture series ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday revived a constitutional challenge of the state's Talent Agencies Act, sayin...

State lawmakers spoke last fall and the state Supreme Court listened Wednesday as the justices voted to rehear the murder appe...

After mulling for years over whether to cut a day from the state's bar exam, the California State Bar's Committee of Bar Exami...

Despite glowing reviews from her clients, Ellen Pao was viewed as an overly competitive employee by male senior partners at ve...

Taxi companies that sued Uber Technologies Inc. for unfair competition have a high bar to clear to prove their claims, attorne...

General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary American Residential Properties Scottsdale, Ariz. ...

A recent case might cause media outlets to wonder about the source of advertising revenues. By Ivan L. Kallick ...

It doesn't take a chokehold or a gunshot for police misconduct to turn deadly. Prosecutorial concealment can be enough. By Jon...

An investor resolution demanding more financial accountability in light of rising exploration and extraction costs is slated f...

A senior partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers testified Wednesday that Ellen Pao was held back...

The Howrey LLP estate settled claims against 47 former partners and one law firm. The partners waived more than $6 million in ...

In 2014, litigation finance company Burford Capital Ltd. saw money committed to new investments triple, while competitor Benth...

Separate suits filed accuse Facebook, along with two health care companies of gender discrimination. ...

A hearing concerning U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II's jailing a lawyer for contempt over her representation of a mental...

Lawyers for Arena3D filed motions to withdraw as counsel over unpaid attorney fees, citing the company's impending Chapter 7 f...

A woman who claimed she was coerced into smuggling drugs from Mexico into the U.S. cannot be indicted because the government d...

Attorneys, neutrals kickstart 11th annual City of Los Angeles Mediation Awareness Week ...

An Orange County jury on Wednesday exonerated former NFL player Willie James Gault of intentionally scheming to defraud invest...

Prosecutors might well be able to overturn a judge's decision to remove the district attorney's office from the worst mass mur...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

Reaction was swift and emotional after Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals threw the district attorney's off...