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Nearly a year after it appeared the nation's most expensive clergy abuse case had settled, a new legal quarrel is brewing over...

Physical fitness buff Gerard S. Brown, who spends his lunch hours at the gym, brings an energy to the Chino court bench that m...

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

Greenberg Traurig grows its business reorganization and bankruptcy practice in Los Angeles.

Judge David M. Gill is always on the job - even driving his car over an embankment in the rain didn't deter him from showing ...

“What more fitting than a day like today, when we mourn the loss on Sept. 11 … and at the same time honor and respect those me...

A loophole in state law allows Los Angeles city building officials to ignore a once-celebrated crackdown on landlords who expo...

When he settles a case, Riverside neutral James D. Ward says, he feels like he just hit a home run. ...

The owners of a hilltop avocado ranch above the village of La Conchita have agreed to turn over their property, farm equipment...

Acts wholly performed in another country that would otherwise be infringement here are beyond the scope of the Copyright Act, ...

Whether the Western Division champion Angels will have to give hometown Anaheim better prominence in the team's official name ...

The pre-emptive arrests performed by police before and during the Republican National Convention were about politics, not safe...

There is a full plate of federal legislation affecting employers, whoever the new president will be, write Michael S. Kalt and...

Trial graphics give jurors shortcuts to understanding that are engaging, comprehensive and memorable, writes G. Christopher Ri...

Sanford Litvack's involvement in the case only deepens the mystery of whether the government will challenge the Google-Yahoo d...

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Bay Area attorney Thomas Frankovich has filed hundreds of lawsuits against businesses that weren't accessible to the disabled....

Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has landed the former director of the New York regional office of the U.S. Secur...

Under a law passed by Congress this summer, dozens of cases that accuse telecommunications companies like AT&T of cooperat...

Barbara Lynn Major excels as a magistrate judge, much as she did as a world-class swimmer. ...

"We've also put together a bench book for judges, if, God forbid, they have to hear an election contest," Alabama attorney H. ...

Ligand Pharmaceuticals will pay the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a not-for-profit research group, $9.5 million immed...

The Los Angeles County Superior Court has selected Charles McCoy to serve as its presiding judge for 2009-2010, while Lee Edmo...

A recent 9th Circuit ruling protects the rights of junior lien holders in cases where the debtor sells assets in a Chapter 11 ...

Today a group of patients who's insurance was dropped, health care advocates and nurses hope to remind Schwarzenegger of that ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers argue that Apple, in an attempt to enforce an exclusive agreement with AT&T Mobility, electronically d...

The former CEO of UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, agreed Wednesday to pay $30 million and to ...