A long running legal battle over dust storms in the Owens Valley is heating up. ...

Robert J. Girard II, partner at Freeman, Freeman & Smiley LLP, arranged for a night out with five partners on March 1. Gir...

The San Fernando Valley Bar Association hosted its 21st Annual Judges’ Night Gala on Feb. 23 at Warner Center Marriott Hotel i...

The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel held it 51st Annual Seminar on March 1-2 at the Millennium Biltmore Hot...

The National Association of Women Lawyers held its midyear meeting at the Omni Hotel in Los Angeles on Feb. 23. The event brou...

The Alliance for Children’s Rights, an organization that coordinates legal services, health care and education for impoveris...

Fellow criminal defense lawyers assess the impact recently retired Federal Public Defender Barry Portman had on the local bar ...

Miguel Marquez has applied to the 6th District bench, which has never had a Latino justice.

A reader comments on coverage of the trial court budget crisis. ...

A recent 3rd Circuit decision makes clear that recovery of litigation costs requires an actual trial. By Bradford B. Kuhn and ...

Can schools prevent students from wearing accessories bearing edgy Keep a Breast Foundation slogans? By Sloan Simmons and Aime...

Don't underestimate the power of laughter. By Christina Wang of Law Offices of Keefe Roberts and Associates ...

An insurer's settlement with Bratz manfacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. underscores the bitterness of insurance brawls in high-s...

Attorneys for Oracle Corp. on Wednesday tried a third time to persuade a federal judge to accept its expert's report on damage...

A tussle between the association that regulates the securities markets and San Francisco brokerage Charles Schwab & Co. ...

Legal employers are beginning to ramp up their recruiting and hiring efforts with law school students following the recession,...

What used to be an electrifying display of skill has now devolved into a total snooze-fest. By Aaron Bloom of Greenberg Gluske...

San Jose will move forward with a controversial measure to reform the city's pension structure despite legal threats from labo...

A popular corporate tax credit came into the state Supreme Court's crosshairs this week and businesses might not be happy with...

Courts have heard Navy-related asbestos tort claims for decades without jurisdiction being questioned. By Michael Gurien of Wa...

An Orinda man accused of economic espionage against DuPont is dumping his well known criminal defense lawyer . ...

A memorandum from the state's top elections official has sparked controversy - and now legal action - over the alleged disenfr...

The Central District of California is poised to have more "emergency" judicial vacancies than any other federal court district...

Jackson DeMarco Tidus Peckenpaugh, JDTP, an Orange County-based firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, insurance, land...

Since attorney Ann Ravel took over the Fair Political Practices Commission in February 2011, she has embarked on a controversi...

A rare criminal price-fixing trial in the Northern District on Tuesday hit its first hiccup since going to the jury for delibe...

The Civil Justice Association of California, a tort-reform and pro-business lobbying group, has agreed to pay $6,000 in fines ...

The bankruptcies keep coming - is the sun setting on the solar industry? By R. Todd Johnson of Jones Day ...

Carl J. West, the former supervising judge of Los Angeles County Superior Court's complex civil division, has joined private j...

Nonprofit Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic raises money for variety of legal causes. ...