On the Move Edwin Luk has joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Hong Kong office as a partner. Luk, who is a China-focu...

LAND ONTARIO - Oakmont Industrial Group purchased 19.14 acres of land on the Northwest corner of Milliken Avenue and the 60 fr...

SAN JOSE - Search engines have become the way computer users find out information on the Internet, and companies that do busin...

By Janene P. Bassett Obtaining new trademark rights, whether through creation of a new mark or assignment from another entity...

At its meeting on June 22, the Los Angeles MTA Board of Directors voted to move a proposed expansion of the Long Beach (710) F...

By Stephen F. Rohde As we approach July 4, our celebrations are muted by the deaths of more than 2,500 Americans in Iraq, th...

By John T. Hansen California's Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of disabil...

A divided California Supreme Court on Thursday handed counties a big stick to control logging within their borders. ...

LOS ANGELES - Unchecked fraud may have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in child care funds intended for welfare...

SAN DIEGO - Vincent P. Di Figlia's can use a one-liner to snap a case into focus. ...

SAN DIEGO - San Diego County's constitutional challenge to the state's voter-approved medical marijuana laws could be put on t...

A divided California Supreme Court clarified Thursday that passengers in vehicles pulled over in traffic stops are not automat...

SAN FRANCISCO - A private Bay Area Catholic high school with the stated purpose of educating underprivileged students will pay...

LOS ANGELES - A jury has awarded a 71-year-old terminally ill man $12.6 million for pain and suffering related to asbestos exp...

LOS ANGELES - Seong H. Kim, a partner at Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, said Thursday he is leaving th...

Now immigrant rights groups in California plan to launch a massive citizenship drive aimed at strengthening an already-influen...

Not passing the bar exam is no excuse for not repaying student loan debt, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. ...

WASHINGTON - Thursday's Supreme Court ruling striking down President Bush's plan to try terrorism suspects in military tribuna...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been called the "opt-out revolution" - an alarming trend of highly qualified women ditching the career tr...

Few combinations lead to the cha-ching of billable hours quite like a dead rich guy and an unhappy heir. ...

The issue of generic causation - i.e. whether some toxin T or hazardous substance S has the general capacity to cause disease ...

LOS ANGELES - A California appeals court ruled that an attorney who brings suit against a current client may still be entitled...

LOS ANGELES - Advocates of tort reform found a reason to gripe and a reason to be hopeful this U.S. Supreme Court session. ...

SACRAMENTO - California's crime rate among youth has dropped to its lowest level in 30 years while at the same time the state ...

LOS ANGELES - The company wants to try the cases separately. The plaintiffs have no problem consolidating some, and the judge ...

The five Higgins orphans who appeared on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" have won a Los Angeles appellate court's sympa...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against two foreign nationals Wednesday who were seeking to overturn their conv...

LOS ANGELES - When Judge Antonio Barreto went to Ireland last year, his most recent high-profile case followed him. ...

LOS ANGELES - Fifty years ago today , a secretary's telephone conversation transformed the way studios turn ideas into movies....

When you purchase the rights to someone's life story, one of the rights you typically buy is the right not to get sued based o...