Two very distinct pictures of a former pharmaceutical chief executive emerged Tuesday as prosecutors and defense attorneys gav...

Given the rising prevalence of cloud computing, businesses should audit their data processing functions, writes David D. Johns...

Most Los Angeles County courts will be closed Wednesday , the second of 12 planned monthly furloughs to help offset a projecte...

In recent decisions involving the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, federal district and appellate courts have not ...

Despite its economic woes, the Administrative Office of the Courts gave new judges attending a recent two-week training the ch...

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer says he finds the argumentative banter of the lawyers in his San Francisco courtroom 'in...

A new federal report found 104 immigrants have died in custody since 2004, 10 more than was previously known. ...

In a setback for the government's crackdown on white-collar crime, a federal appellate panel Tuesday reversed former Brocade C...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe advised First Solar in a 20-year power purchase deal with Southern California Edison.

Traditionally, a person who wished to keep infringing products out of the U.S. could obtain either a limited or general exclus...

Fraud! Eavesdropping! Secret Russian conversations! It may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but it's a real-life ca...

A trio of bills aimed at creating political pressure to increase the rights of the gay community passed through the state Asse...

The prison panel's order to release 40,000 California inmates is a stunning example of judicial overreach, writes David A. DeG...

Judge Gary S. Paer's innovative - and compassionate - treatment of jurors is aimed at creating a "user-friendly courtroom" whe...

Attorney David R. Singer, an entertainment and media litigation partner in Hogan & Hartson's Los Angeles office, said dela...

Lawmakers returned to Sacramento this week and immediately began to tackle the California Department of Corrections & Reha...

Many new lawyers don't learn essential skills like drafting subpoenas and other documents until they're on the job, writes Nat...

A woman who alleged that sex crimes prosecutor Michael Gressett wielded a gun while using an ice pick to rape her will have to...

Although record labels face hefty obstacles in trying to prevent piracy, it does not appear that they will be giving up anytim...

With Thomas P. O'Brien's imminent departure as U.S. attorney for the Central District of California to help set up a white-col...

More than 93 percent of Los Angeles Superior Court's 550 judges and commissioners took a voluntary pay cut for July's furlough...

A company that once sued Facebook claiming the social networking site stole its ideas is now owned by Facebook, and, in the la...

The California Supreme Court strengthened legal protections for publishers Monday, saying a rule designed to limit the media's...

Law students from both Northern and Southern California have forged an effort to help military members with civilian legal pro...

Cyber worms can infect a law firm's network and allow their creators access and even control of the networked computers, write...

New provisions for endorsement deals will reduce the number of disputes over pension and health contributions on these special...

The first time Joshua Floum was involved in taking a company public was last year, when he led San Francisco-based Visa Inc. t...

This fall, not one but two U.S. Supreme Court cases will rest on a 28-word paragraph that members of Congress added at the las...

The heirs to one of Superman's co-creators successfully recaptured the rights to works previously assumed to belong to DC Comi...

Four years into the practice, Brown, White & Newhouse has grown to 12 lawyers. It handles commercial civil litigation and...