A judge on Friday sided with Attorney General Jerry Brown's wording of the November ballot initiative banning gay marriage. ...

With progress in the wiretapping trial of attorney Terry N. Christensen and private eye Anthony Pellicano slowing to a crawl F...

It's about time. After decades of thinking about it, Chicago-based law firm Kirkland & Ellis set up shop last week in Palo...

After a legal war of Trojan proportions, University of Southern California fans can rejoice: The school has won exclusive righ...

A state appellate court in Los Angeles said Friday that it's legal for Californians to teach their children at home, backing o...

Web Exclusive - The National Rifle Association is in settlement talks with the City and County of San Francisco and the San F...

Federal prosecutors acknowledged Friday that a judge's finding they had violated a California ethics rule has prompted investi...

McGuireWoods has added a product and consumer liability litigator.

The Daughter of a Former Chinese Fighter Pilot Alights on the Los Angeles Trial Court ...

Open competition has been California's public policy since 1872, making noncompetition clauses invalid in employment contracts...

In the late 1980s, Morris Hirsch went in-house seeking a better balance between work and family. In a question and answer sess...

Every legal case has its narrative — but there’s a difference between reciting a narrative and telling a good story when you’r...

John Leo Wagner, a former U.S. magistrate judge in Oklahoma, says he enjoys working in the "paradise" of Southern California, ...

Recent Court of Appeals decisions continue to express the longstanding judicial antipathy toward circumvention of copyright la...

Trying to get a federal court jury to award big damages in the Bratz doll copyright infringement case, a lawyer for Mattel Thu...

Counsel for billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian appeared in federal court Thursday to discuss his turn on the witness stand i...

A Los Angeles trial judge erred and allowed "a miscarriage of justice" to unfold in his courtroom, according to a state appell...

Web Exclusive - A judge is likely to leave alone Proposition 8's title, "Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry," despi...

A controversial law professor made good on a threat Thursday and sued to force the State Bar to release exam results broken do...

The average plaintiffs' attorney would try to avoid an arbitrator who had announced that the attorney's case seemed weak. ...

The Filipino Government's Impropriety Is the Real Story

Davis Wright Tremaine has added an employment lawyer in its San Francisco office.

Los Angeles U.S. District Judge Manuel Real was hit with another rebuff Wednesday, after an appeals court completely reversed ...

His open-minded approach works well in keeping juveniles and their parents together, say lawyers who appear before Sacramento ...

The legal team for attorney Terry N. Christensen announced Wednesday its plans to call his longtime client, billionaire develo...

The nation's largest school bus provider has agreed to pay up to $28 million over seven years to retrofit or replace Californi...

A former assistant U.S. attorney who went on to serve as Kaiser Permanente's top Southern California in-house counsel died Mon...

California's same-sex marriage decision unearths a prickly conflict: anti-discrimination policies implemented discriminatorily...

Going forward, a recent state high court ruling will certainly mean more litigation over whether contract language establishes...

California law schools have pioneered many academic innovations that elite East Coast schools are just now catching on to, wri...