During its annual planning meeting in San Diego last Friday and Saturday, the Committee of Bar Examiners tabled a proposal to ...

Death is on hold for a serial killer, a 9th Circuit panel ruled Monday in concluding that a federal judge should have held a c...

Orange County’s Roman Catholic diocese will put in a bid to purchase the Crystal Cathedral, according to a bankruptcy attorney...

A defense lawyer's drinking problem and failure to investigate his client's childhood sexual abuse was not enough to convince ...

When should an insurer accept an offer to settle in a third party lawsuit? By Marc Feldman of Luce Forward Hamilton & Scri...

In another sign of the legal job drought, more than 500 lawyers, many of them overqualified, recently responded to a job posti...

Central and Southern California community groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

A survey last week showed as much as a 20 percent increase in malpractice claims this year, and legal ethics experts say the e...

Comcast Cable Communications LLC discriminated against Santa Monica-based Tennis Channel Inc. by inhibiting the network’s abil...

A federal judge denied a motion for class certification Monday in what remains of a consolidated lawsuit against Silicon Valle...

Shortly after lifting a stay of a trial judge's ruling ordering the U.S. to stop enforcing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," an appeals...

Attacks on Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.'s standing to initiate foreclosures or assign interests end in Califo...

Infineon Technologies has settled a long-running securities class action with shareholders, agreeing to pay $6.2 million to re...

Award-winning federal prosecutor Winston Y. Chan, who recently scored convictions of a Mafia boss and an investment banking ex...

Broad changes to National Labor Relations Board rules that would expedite union elections at workplaces, which seem all but ce...

The complaint filed Monday against talent agency CAA accuses the agents of skimming contingency compensation away from their c...

A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

General Counsel for Venrock Palo Alto ...

By focusing on two basic concepts contained within the health care reform law, practitioners can cut through the controversy a...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that would increase the small claims court jurisdictional limit from $7,500 to $10,000. ...

Lisa Greer Quateman, founder and managing partner of Los Angeles boutique Quateman LLP, has teamed up with Polsinelli Shughart...

Wisconsin-based S.C. Johnson & Son will remove the "Greenlist" label from its Windex bottles as part of a settlement reac...

The co-owner of two Culver City-based health care companies was convicted by a federal jury in the Central District of Califor...

Even as the Legislature moves forward with plans to revamp the State Bar, five lawyers have been elected to three-year terms o...

Paul Weiss in Washington, D.C. made a cross-country grab for a federal prosecutor from Los Angeles in an effort to build its w...

Legal jobs fell by the wayside in the month of June, continuing a nationwide trend of higher unemployment levels in both priva...

The decline of pro bono work in 2010 was not only caused by greed, industry insiders say, but by a few ways the practice has b...

The discovery master in the Bratz doll fight has recommended that the doll manufacturer, MGA Entertainment Inc., receive $108 ...

John P. Vander Feer renders quick decisions, lawyers said, but you'd better keep him informed.

A string of Nevada district court rulings dismissing lawsuits by a Las Vegas-based copyright enforcer that works with newspape...