The Federal Circuit recently found that under some circumstances, awarding an ongoing royalty for patent infringement in lieu ...

Prevailing plaintiffs should ordinarily recover attorney fees, but the opposite presumption applies to prevailing employers, w...

Clerical workers for the State Compensation Insurance Fund can immediately return to work and are entitled to back pay, a San ...

The governor's cuts to child welfare aren't simply morally wrong, they are also fiscally unsound, write John Burton and Miriam...

Helen B. Kim is set to take over leadership of Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles - and has strong ideas about its plans...

Incoming State Bar president Howard Miller hopes to use his tenure to improve the organization's management and internal finan...

Keith Wisot's judgelike demeanor sets him apart from other neutrals, say lawyers who have worked with him. ...

As news spread through the legal community this week that UCLA School of Law's Dean Michael Schill would be departing to head ...

President Barack Obama's mere mention of medical malpractice during Wednesday night's address on health care reform lifted Rep...

California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review an appellate court’s reversal of a ruling against Starbucks Corp. Tha...

Perhaps keen to show that she is, indeed, a "wise Latina," newly-ensconced Justice Sonia Sotomayor waited just 35 minutes Wedn...

Being honest and transparent with consumers about malpractice insurance benefits everyone, writes Josh King. ...

A former priest convicted of sexually abusing children is asking a Los Angeles court to return all documents filed in a new ci...

The Obama administration earned mixed grades on four key privacy areas in a report released by a leading privacy advocacy grou...

A recent appellate case may have effectively narrowed the gap between the two classes of private arbitration litigants, writes...

A settlement requiring a Newport Beach school district to train administrators, teachers and students to combat homophobia an...

Any approach to regulating climate change will provide more certainty than exists today, and more efficiency than can be achie...

In a high-profile campaign finance case over an anti-Hillary Clinton movie, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared Wednesday to be in...

Personal injury law firm Masry & Vititoe, pushed into bankruptcy after a slew of litigation over the estate of founder Edw...

A decision to designate critical habitat for the California tiger salamander follows several years of proceedings concerning t...

The rule requiring the disclosure of malpractice insurance will inevitably be used against attorneys, write Michael Bradley an...

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As the legislature struggles to reach a deal on fixing the state's ailing water delivery system around the Sacramento-San Joaq...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. escorted newly appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor down the front steps of the U.S. Supreme Co...

Before recent heart surgery, John Garibaldi kept current on appellate rulings. While he recuperates, he's more attuned to what...

Attorneys from across the state are expected to join a rally Saturday protesting the State Bar's decision to hold its 82nd ann...

Congress has provided two special incentives for pharmaceutical companies to innovate: patent term extension and FDA marketing...

Prominent Silicon Valley financier "Boots" Del Biaggio III made a tearful apology Tuesday before being sentenced to eight year...

Customers who sued a group of banks for antitrust violations related to ATM fees failed to show that they are effectively proh...

Money-saving state court closures start next Wednesday, Sept. 16, and will continue once a month until June 2010, the Judicial...