Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - How can O.J. Simpson be charged with kidnapping when he never removed the alleged victi...

Always negotiating, Steve Mehta couldn't imagine himself as anything but a mediator. At 39, Mehta is Judicate West's youngest ...

Forum Column - By William Gwire - In-house counsel that want to control costs through litigation guidlines should take a cue f...

LOS ANGELES - A teenage beauty queen who was badly injured in a car crash will receive $9 million under a settlement with the ...

Five years ago, a federal appellate court blocked a spate of plaintiffs from suing Big Tobacco on the grounds that the sick sm...

LOS ANGELES - A total of 76 shareholder class actions were filed in the first half of the year, according to a new study that ...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday shielded the deep pockets of big law firms from stale malpractice claims. ...

For the few California law firms that have figured out how to navigate the bureaucratic red tape, the practice of affordable-h...

SACRAMENTO - Bloggers have become a fixture in national politics, as commonplace as BlackBerrys and lobbyists. Increasingly, t...

Reversing a lower court's grant of summary judgment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a former employee's wrongful...

Focus Column - By Catherine W. Johnson and Michele Heffes - New regulations intended to promote greater transparency in enviro...

Real Estate Column - By Robert C. Barnes - A downturn in housing markets makes this a ripe time for buyers looking to make sav...

A judge declared a mistrial in the Los Angeles murder trial of rock 'n' roll producer Phil Spector on Wednesday after jurors r...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marina H. Park, former managing partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's Silicon Valley office and overall...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration may want retroactive immunity for telephone companies that participated in its secret wir...

Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and one of the nation's most prominent intellectual property experts, explains his d...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court jury in San Francisco Tuesday awarded $30.5 million to a small Silicon Valley company in a tra...

LOS ANGELES - Asylum seekers in the United States face a dysfunctional immigration court system "where the law is not the law,...

Forum Column - By Clifford J. Rosky - The Maryland Supreme Court's recent upholding of a gay-marriage ban introduced a dicey n...

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday decided to review a high-stakes energy case, a move that could endanger $1.4 billion in refunds...

WASHINGTON - "Judge Alex," a judge-turned-entertainer who arbitrates disputes on his nationally syndicated television show, ha...

Winnie the Pooh's owners went too far when they hired an investigator who sifted through Walt Disney Co.'s trash and stole tho...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is jumping into the arena of patent law yet again. The court agreed Tuesday to take up a high-s...

SANTA ANA - Boo J. Giuffre, one of Orange County's leading advocates for children in heated family-law matters, has died. ...

Focus Column - By Paul S. Arrow - A recent Focus column examined bankruptcy reforms from the perspective of a reclaiming selle...

Jeffrey L. Bleich, the new leader of the State Bar, plans to improve relations with lawyers, the Legislature and the public. ...

LOS ANGELES - First, a federal judge ordered Qualcomm to pay millions for its legal team's gross misconduct during a losing pa...

In a potential blockbuster case on the death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will consider the const...

LOS ANGELES - After receiving a $1.3 million invoice from Jones Day for the Tennie Pierce discrimination-case settlement, thre...

A new federal law will provide law-school loan forgiveness for lawyers who serve in the public sector for 10 years. But the Am...