In the midst of fending off a closely watched lawsuit involving environmental contamination in Ecuador, Chevron has sued the a...
A federal appeals court has ordered the public defender's office in Los Angeles County to make a cash payment to a gay lawyer ...
Chief U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins and U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford spoke with Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena...
An epiphany on the battlefield in Iraq led William C. Gentry Jr. to move from a prosecutor's chair to the bench.
Donald E. Smallwood 1928—2009 ...
Brandon Saxon of Gordon & Rees says preparing an environmental impact statement is more than an exercise in compliance. ...
Mark Behrens and Phil Goldberg of Shook Hardy & Bacon believe that California is setting the stage for a surge of abusive ...
In a rare look at the 1978 California Solar Rights Act, a Los Angeles jury has ruled a homeowners association was right to ord...
A witness told a jury Tuesday that he lost tens of thousands of dollars on Broadcom stock in the naive belief the company's st...
A San Francisco proposal to establish a single department for asbestos case management looks likely to get the green light aft...
Dewey & LeBoeuf attorneys guided Santa Clara chipmaker Applied Materials purchase of Montana-based equipment manufacturer ...
Attorneys Rami Yanni and Jerod Partin present the latest development in the future of online advertising and search in the EU....
Attorneys Daniel Garrie and Daniel Gelb explain why e-discovery is a hidden risk when obtaining Director's and Officer's insur...
Two former HBO & Co. and McKesson Corp. executives were crucial participants in a securities fraud that caused $9 billion ...
Disgraced former Santa Clara County prosecutor Benjamin Field should regain his right to practice the law because he did not v...
Alex Lakatos and Carol Bilzi of Mayer Brown explore the challenges behind protecting U.S. financial systems from WMD prolifera...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judge Orders Cash in Place of Benefits for Gay U.S. Lawyer's Spouse
By Riley Guerin
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge has ordered the public defender's office in Los Angeles to make a cash payment to a ...
The Pirate Bay, a Web site that illegally allowed millions of users to download movies, music and other media for free, says i...
Product Liability
Judge Orders Former Toyota Lawyer's Lawsuit to Arbitration
By Evelyn Larrubian
In a victory for Toyota Motor Corp., a U.S. judge said a former in-house counsel's claim that the automaker concealed evidence...
Joseph Brisco lost his bench seat in the tiny eastern outpost of Needles. Now he enjoys the bustle and anonymity of Rancho Cu...
The cases of two widows whose husbands died of asbestos exposure have taken radically different turns, creating a sharp split ...
Daniel Barer of Pollak, Vida and Fisher comments on what Sprint v. Palos Verdes Estates really means for wireless telec...
Richard Hermann of Concord Law School explains why risk management is a career that favors and caters to attorneys. ...
Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of Law asks whether recent court litigation will reduce or expand the state's prison popul...
Three Los Angeles plaintiff lawyers are facing allegations of financial abuse, fraud and negligence brought by former clients ...
A lawyer at Milbank Tweed in Los Angeles helped to guide Asarco LLC, a subsidiary of Grupo Mexico out of Chapter 11. ...
The San Francisco Superior Court wants to corral its asbestos caseload into one department to make more efficient a court syst...
Patrick McKenna, Edwin Reeser, Jeffrey Carr and Patrick Lamb continue their series on how firms can transition into a new comp...
Google Inc. has filed an amended settlement proposal between in an effort to placate critics opposed to its digital book servi...
The high court not only summarily reversed the lower court but explicitly pointed out flaws and discrepancies in the opinion, ...