Nancy Hudgins is seeking a new intellectual pursuit, and it's not a game of chess or advanced mathematics. It's conflict resol...

Term limits exacerbate some of the pathologies of the political process, such as overly quick policy responses and insufficien...

Picture this: You and your partner have not been contributing equally to your business or seeing eye to eye for quite some tim...

A jury has awarded $3.1 million to an officer who claimed the Los Angeles Police Department retaliated against him for accusin...

Letters to the Editor - Parties in coerced arbitrations never see justice.

Government approvals are arguably the most challenging aspect for foreign investors of completing a deal in China, writes Simo...

Employers must work closely with employees who need accomodations and employees' doctors to review all determine if the employ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her former colleague, Justice Stephen Breyer, warned Thursday that a flo...

Environmentalists launched a new wave of attacks against the Bush administration's treatment of endangered species Thursday, f...

The increasingly high-profile debate over the extent to which federal law trumps state law takes center stage Monday when the ...

A wrongful death lawsuit brought against individual public health officials by the family of a former detained immigrant can m...

A former Reed Smith partner has joined the newly formed Los Angeles office of Alston & Bird.

Two weeks after a federal judge rejected his suit, a persistent talent manager refuses to give up his fight against the state ...

The U.S. Supreme Court chose Wednesday not to revisit its sharply divided June decision to ban execution as a punishment for c...

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide to what extent courts can apportion the cost of cleaning up Superfund sites among different...

Months after recall alerts went out, more than a dozen California hospitals continued giving tainted heparin to hundreds of pa...

A Court of Appeal has upheld a legal malpractice judgment against Los Angeles attorney Eddie Jamison. He is accused of failing...

An emergency measure recently signed into law is intended to help developers and builders in this uncertain real estate market...

“A permanent ban on home construction cannot be based merely on a fear of personal injury or significant property damage,” Pre...

In democratic societies, individuals get to choose whose religious rules — if any — they want to live by, which is why Proposi...

A bill to limit arbitration in consumer contracts that had strong backing from plaintiffs' attorneys has failed to gain the go...

A Riverside jury has awarded a retired lawyer $11.6 million for auto accident injuries he claimed were caused by Caltrans' neg...

In a decision that could inspire more city-sponsored health care programs across the country, a federal appeals court on Tuesd...

Same-sex divorce is "a ripe area for mediation," said Los Angeles family law mediator and attorney Diane Goodman of Goodman Me...

A nine-attorney group, including five corporate and real estate partners, has jumped to the Century City office of Seyfarth Sh...

Did the government violate the Fourth Amendment during a sweeping seizure of the medical records and drug testing results of M...

In-house attorneys are continuing to draw bigger salaries, but large corporations are employing fewer of them, a survey releas...

A closely watched proposal aimed at paying volunteer court mediators for their services has suffered a defeat by the State Bar...

A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act would amend the regulations implementing Section 7, which requires federal age...

Web Exclusive - The criminal stock options case against McAfee Inc.'s former general counsel went to a jury Tuesday, and seeme...