Public Counsel hosted the 2012 William J. Lasarow Awards on June 21 at the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles. The event s...

Absurd federal policies, enormous college loan debt and students' abusive behavior are suffocating education. By Betty Raskoff...

ADR Services Inc. neutral Steven Pearl uses his encyclopedic knowledge of wage-and-hour laws and his relentlessness to help pa...

Emulex Corp. will pay Broadcom Corp. $58 million to license three of its patents on Ethernet technology in a partial settlemen...

The Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association (LGLA) and Asian Pacific City Attorney's Association (APCAA) held a welcoming receptio...

The full impact of the case is yet to be seen, but it is likely to increase the use of "binding mediations"; mediators should ...

Plaintiffs' employment lawyers at Hurwitz, Orihuela & Hayes are considering broading their practice in light of recent cou...

n Orange County Superior Court judge who asked a court commissioner to make his wife's $300 traffic ticket assessment go away ...

More than 50 students have been placed as interns in 51 Orange County law firms and law-related businesses through Project SEL...

The complaint filed by the father of Kelly Thomas attempts to show a widespread pattern of police misconduct, which some exper...

A cluster of cases in Southern California highlights what appears to be a growing trend: local officials allegedly accepting b...

The State Bar said it wants to reevaluate 24 discipline plea bargains the bar had previously accepted. The move comes in the w...

The acting county counsel for Mendocino County was detained early Tuesday morning for alleged possession of a concealed firear...

Even as the U.S. Supreme Court mostly backed federal primacy and executive discretion over immigration enforcement this term, ...

The state Supreme Court has given a last minute reprieve to a Sacramento man who posted to Facebook information about a trial ...

Individual artists who created works after 1977 will soon be able to reclaim their works, and whittle away at record label rev...

The 2nd District recently found that Domino's Pizza went too far controlling a franchisee, resulting in a principle-agent rela...

A total absence of care is not required for a care facility to be held liable. By Denise A. Platt Maginn ...

Supporters of the Southwest Museum were dealt a setback when a judge denied their petition of mandate alleging that city commi...

The estate for defunct firm Dewey & LeBeouf LLP is trying to convince former partners to buy in to a settlement plan to av...

San Diego-based Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP will be accepting applications for the first class at its company...

The Obama administration took the extraordinary step Tuesday of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal judge's deci...

Law schools are offering many more clinical, writing and other programs meant to give students practical, real-world experienc...

A bill backed by plaintiffs' attorneys that sought to preserve consumer class actions died in the state Assembly Judiciary C...

San Francisco-based enterprise software company Mashery Inc. announced Tuesday the addition of its first general counsel. ...

A San Jose federal judge has denied a request by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to stay the injunction she issued last week blo...

A Department of Justice effort to aggressively seek damages against companies accused of negligently setting wildfires in Cali...

Now that Toshiba Corp. has been ordered by a jury to pay $87 million to plaintiffs who sued over a scheme to fix LCD panel pri...

General counsel for AVOS Systems Inc. San Mateo ...

New-York based Madison Square Garden Co., owner of the New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden, announced last week that it'...