Colorado-based Phenix Salon Suites signed three leases in Southern California totaling $2.8 million at Encinitas Marketplace i...

Although employers generally have the power to hire, and not hire, whomever they please, technology is making the process tric...

A reader responds to "Sheriff's watchdog has eyes elsewhere," (Oct. 5). ...

The new rules govern how the agency accepts and processes complaints of unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation un...

The State Bar and the Legal Aid Association of California on Tuesday formally launched a project to raise awareness and donati...

A businessman whom critics labeled the Bernie Madoff of Beverly Hills was sentenced Tuesday to 7 years in federal prison for s...

A federal judge tentatively dismissed a $3 billion antitrust suit in which Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. accused M...

Public prosecutors and plaintiffs' attorneys have different motivations, making these partnerships troublesome. By Kim Stone o...

A roundup of cases granted or denied for review by the U.S. Supreme Court ...

A team of lawyers from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP representing the California Science Center has officially broken a deal ...

Until governance problems over our trial courts are resolved, judges cannot speak with one voice. By Steve White of Sacramento...

Environmental and public health groups sued the Obama administration Tuesday - a month after his office reversed itself and re...

Surveys regularly show that most Californians feel ill-prepared to vote on initiative proposals. By Glenn C. Smith of Californ...

Consistent with its pattern of rulings supporting arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to say a law guar...

A legal malpractice lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld claims the firm is ...

Senior Circuit Judge Robert Boochever of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a former chief justice of the Alaska Supreme C...

Plaintiffs' lawyers steering the litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over alleged unintended acceleration defects scored two...

Cinemark Theaters Inc. has petitioned the California Supreme Court after a 2nd District appellate panel found in favor of inde...

The 99 Cents Only Stores on Tuesday agreed to be taken private by affiliates of Los Angeles-based private equity firm Ares Man...

Several federal agencies announced the filing of criminal and civil charges Tuesday against former United Commercial Bank exec...

Hate crime cases gave Judge Scott A. Steiner a valuable, unpleasant education in litigation.

Several major federal incentives for renewable energy development are coming to an end, which insiders said could hurt growth ...

As he dispatched the last round of bills from his desk by midnight Sunday, Gov. Jerry Brown deferred to the state's courts on ...

Fresh off a plane from New York, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund President and General Counsel Thomas Saenz ...

Why the Medicare set-aside program is not what it seems to be. By William L. Winslow of Farmer & Ridley LLP ...

Orange County-based partners for Latham & Watkins LLP led the deal team for Texas-based Complete Production Services Inc. ...

In this new term, it will be interesting to see how this power is used to influence the other justices. By Hirbod Rashidi of U...

Google Inc. has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission not to bar the import of HTC Corp. smart phones powered by the M...

An attorney is representing the litigant pro bono to help clear up ongoing confusion in the trial courts in dealing with fee w...

An experienced Orange County Superior Court judge may not have realized that fixing traffic tickets for friends and family wa...