Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Wednesday he has sued several baby furniture manufacturers, alleging they failed to war...

Web Exclusive - About 300,000 motorists who claim they were wrongly fined for violating red-light cameras got a second chance ...

Web Exclusive - The Federal Circuit clarified the legal standard for determining when a defendant induced others to infringe p...

Howrey has added a partner from DLA Piper to its global litigation group.

Heller Ehrman, once regarded as one of the most successful and respected law firms in California, called a firmwide shareholde...

Two recent cases have addressed important aspects of peer review — the extent to which peer review participants have immunity ...

A Hollywood trial lawyer who fought in court for the likes of Robin Williams, Sylvester Stallone, John Fogerty, Mick Jagger an...

Ivory Coast banana and pineapple plantation workers claiming a toxic pesticide left them sterile lost their bid to hold Americ...

With 3.5 billion prescriptions written each year, the United States is an attractive market for those who prey on the sick, wr...

Dennis Hsieh of Neighborhood Legal Services counsels Toni Ovall at the St. John's Well Child Center in Compton. Hsieh helps ca...

In discussions with the Department of Justice, the special committee that led an internal investigation into McAfee Inc.’s sto...

The exclusionary rule is hanging on by a thread and new conservative appointments may well spell the death knell for the rule,...

Would-be plaintiffs seeking to sue anonymous Internet bloggers should take note of two recent 6th District Court of Appeal opi...

The Alameda County Superior Court is asking civil attorneys to weigh in on its new civil direct calendar system put into effec...

In a brief but often contentious hearing, federal lawmakers quizzed U.S. Department of Justice officials Tuesday over the poli...

Harmon Groesbeck Scoville, a prominent Orange County judge who served as the second presiding justice in the local appellate c...

Federal judges on the East Coast investigating 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's conduct have hired national law firms D...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis has added a partner in its San Diego real estate and land use practice.

Although Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday that the taxpayer-funded rescue of the nat...

“You knew you weren’t getting expert craftsmanship, but I don’t think anyone realized the level of incompetence,” Janelle Brod...

Bankruptcy attorney Nancy Knupfer, a partner at Danning, Gill, Diamond & Kollitz, will be installed tonight as the eighth...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann discovered the American Judges Association in 2002 and by the next year...

American service members are not allowed, for the most part, to petition the Supreme Court directly, which deprives them of de...

The Orange County Register will appeal a judge's order that bans the newspaper from reporting any testimony in an upcoming cla...

Lawyers and clients whose relationships begin as professional ones almost always have a better, clearer and more predictable p...

A federal judge denied an adult filmmaker’s motion to dismiss an obscenity indictment, ruling that then presiding Judge Alex K...

A federal appellate court changed the standard for deciding whether the design of a patented invention has been infringed.

Marjorie Knoller didn't say a word on Monday as a San Francisco County Superior Court Judge sentenced her to 15 years to life ...

Few areas of alternative dispute resolution contain more emotion than the burgeoning area of “elder abuse” cases, writes Alexa...

A federal judge on Monday rejected a motion for a new trial by Anthony Pellicano, whose attorney argued that the jury's forepe...