Reed Smith's Los Angeles office hosted an Election Day Call Center on Tuesday in support of Election Protection 2010, a nation...

Los Angeles County has tentatively settled a class-action lawsuit alleging inadequate education of youth at a juvenile detenti...

Anthony Joseph is a low-key mediator and arbitrator, but he has a reputation for surprising the lawyers who work with him. ...

Handbook on independent filmmaking serves as a guide through legal dilemmas that may arise. By Michael C. Donaldson and Lisa A...

Torture has too often been viewed as an acceptable means of protecting national security. By Jeremy Waldron of New York Univer...

Charles La Bella, a former U.S. attorney in San Diego, has been tapped by the Department of Justice to be its deputy chief in ...

The California Supreme Court rejected arguments advanced by the Riverside County District Attorney's Office to save cases from...

Government agencies could be on the hook for litigation expenses if their final offers of compensation in eminent domain actio...

Attorneys for Sony Computer Entertainment America and a potential class of PlayStation 3 customers faced off in federal court ...

Former ambassador Pierre Prosper said low-key, patient negotiations helped him get an Iranian-American's release from his nati...

Assembly Bill 939 hopes to speed up resolution of family law cases by reviving the use of live testimony for motions and order...

Baron & Budd, the powerful, politically connected Dallas-based plaintiffs' law firm that got its start in asbestos litigat...

As insurers, health plans and employers catch on to the idea of ranking physicians by various criteria to improve care, medic...

For the first time, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is considering whether DNA isolated in a lab is a produc...

Highs and Lows of Kilimanjaro By Eb Richardson Jack Nelson does not climb mountains. “I like outdoor activities, like ...

After client conflicts stymied merger talks between the two firms this summer, San Francisco-based Townsend and Townsend and C...

A recent rally on how media hypes fear inexcusably failed to discuss the Iraq and Afghanistan war. By Marjorie Cohn of Thomas ...

A 9th Circuit decision draws attention to whether CERCLA provides contribution protection for private party settlements. By Be...

The Obama administration's announcement that it will award California $10 billion in funding triggered sighs of relief from ma...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has finally sought refuge in Chapter 11 bankruptcy after more than a year of financial woes, but the studi...

A Kings County Superior Court jury late Tuesday awarded a 55-year-old prison guard $6.45 million for debilitating injuries he ...

A group of Arizona taxpayers seemed to come up short Wednesday of crossing both of the hurdles it must clear to persuade the U...

A state appellate court beats the state Supreme Court to the punch in a recent employment decision. By Frances Rogers of Liebe...

Victoria Kolakowski appears poised to win a seat on the Alameda County Superior Court and become the first openly transgender ...

Boutique litigation firm Sonnett Ingold has merged with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith. ...

The elimination of hundreds of General Motors dealerships closes another chapter of justice unserved. By Jonathan Michaels of ...

Propelled by a rally cry that helped band together his fellow judges and other players in the legal community, Judge Richard U...

The California Supreme Court appeared likely to fend off the latest challenge to consumer class actions brought in the wake of...

Some California attorneys are advising campaigns involved in close elections. ...