A federal bankruptcy judge approved a $20 million settlement Thursday between the Heller Ehrman LLP estate and its lenders, Ba...

The trial of journalist Thomas Cooper was the first major constitutional challenge to the Sedition Act of 1798. By Peter Charl...

InfoLawGroup LLP, a six-lawyer virtual boutique with an international reach focusing on the fast-evolving specialty area of da...

Had U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted injunctive relief in John Lonberg's 14-year-old lawsuit against Riverside, pl...

A thriller set in 1960s England that draws on the country's criminal justice system and modern history. By Simon Tolkien. ...

California Sen. Barbara Boxer is urging the American Bar Association to put more pressure on law schools to stop reporting mis...

Policy implications stemming from an employee's termination over comments posted on Facebook. By Elizabeth T. Arce of Liebert ...

Doll-maker MGA Entertainment Inc. is suing several European banks, claiming they turned a blind eye to accounting fraud at a l...

Disbarred and suspended lawyers will be fined $300 for every document they file in the L.A.-based bankruptcy court, the court'...

The image of lawyers has suffered over the years, what happened to respecting the legal profession? By Jeffrey A. Shane. ...

U.S. health officials released a voluminous and hotly anticipated set of proposed regulations that will determine how doctors ...

A prominent Saudi family filed a federal lawsuit this week that accuses a U.S. film producer of orchestrating an alleged $10 b...

Southern California Islamic groups seeking to learn whether they were under federal surveillance may have been stonewalled by ...

A state appellate court refused Wednesday to revive a lawsuit stemming from a knife-wielding prison parolee's random attack on...

A jury Wednesday unanimously rejected the claims of former Los Angeles Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor, who accused the ...

Federal district court imposes broader liability on the government to fund hazardous-waste cleanups. By Alfred E. Smith II of ...

The 6th District Court of Appeal has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop the sale of 24 state-owned office buildings to pr...

The Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library will present its annual Beacon of Justice award to Ronald L. Olson, a partne...

Employers cannot readily recover losses from banks due to fraudulent activities by their own employees. By Brett D. Watson of ...

A state doctor who was set to testify as early as this summer in a federal lawsuit highlighting deficiencies in California's p...

U.S. Trustee official appointed judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. ...

In response to the Rodney King incident, Warren M. Christopher created the first principles for effective law enforcement. By ...

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. turned to Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to create a clear path for companies to take when it comes to disclosure of nonpublic facts. By...

An embattled San Francisco property rental company faces sanctions and penalties of up to $10 million under a settlement appro...

In a sequal to a 2009 ruling on preemption with brand-name drug makers, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed Wednesday if federal la...

For such a popular trend, the problem-solving movement has yielded woefully few serious recidivism studies. By Hadar Aviram of...

The state Supreme Court asked a lower court Wednesday to take a closer look at privacy issues surrounding jurors' Facebook pos...

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A federal jury found Abbott Laboratories must pay $3.4 million to competitor GlaxoSmithKline after a month-long antitrust and ...