Senators criticized Thurgood Marshall's performance as a justice on the Supreme Court during last week's public question and a...

The majority opinion in Bilski v. Kappos seems to be on the lookout for "emergent technologies" that may change the way...

Those in favor of the Supreme Court's gun control decision are wise to keep their powder dry. This won't be the Court's last w...

It was a good year before the U.S. Supreme Court for the much-maligned 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9th Circuit, whi...

An anti-abortion legal group backing a whistleblower suing Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles won a round last week at the 9th ...

Even as cancer has worn out his body, Judge Thomas W. Cain has kept up a full calendar and presented an unflappable face to th...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

It's only been a few days since Apple Inc. released its newest version of the iPhone and already the popular technology compan...

Los Angeles County Judge Leland H. Tipton has a deliberative and measured approach to jurisprudence. He says that's a trait he...

Miller & Chevalier, a law firm focused on tax, employee benefits and government affairs with about 110 lawyers in Washingt...

Stephen Ferruolo, Goodwin Procter's San Diego office chair, and San Diego-based corporate associate Steven Gill represented Ta...

The California State Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill designed to strengthen civil penalties against adults who pr...

Ten months after a jury convicted Gerald and Patricia Green on several counts of foreign corruption charges for bribing a Thai...

Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich lost his bid to become the first in City Attorney in the state with the power to em...

As 3-D technology company RealD gears up to go public and offer more than 12 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange, se...

A settlement in a class action that screenwriters filed against the Writers Guild of America West over unpaid foreign distribu...

Venture capital investment in clean technology continued its recovery from the economic downturn in the second quarter of 2010...

Multidistrict litigation has spiked in response to Toyota's unintended acceleration and the Gulf oil spill. Brian Kabateck and...

Barry McDonald of Pepperdine University School of Law explores how the Supreme Court has allowed humanitarian lawyers to couns...

New eyewitness study shines light on significant margin of error in cross-racial recognition of faces, prompting Harvey Gee of...

William J. Howatt, a JAMS mediator in San Diego, has a passion for rules of evidence and civil procedure. Lawyers say he works...

Attorneys are working on a structure for the $2.9 billion-plus sale of Los Angeles-based Abraxis BioScience Inc. that's normal...

For the second time in two months, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the prosecution in a case involving a deport...

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles was abuzz on June 24 as 500 members of the legal community gathered for ...

In an unfortunate twist for Southern California's hard-up legal market, the much-coveted defense work on Toyota's unintended a...

Biopharmaceutical company Celgene Corp. acquired Abraxis BioScience Inc. in a $2.9 billion deal approved by both companies' bo...

After the plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 seized on language from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling as...

It's now up to a jury to give the final answer in a month-long trial over hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the ...

Doug Luftman, Palm Inc.'s chief intellectual property counsel, has landed at CBS Interactive Inc. as its vice president and ch...