A longtime ghost researcher who pitched to several networks a reality show based on his profession is arguing once again in a ...

Although law firms are logging fewer pro bono hours, some like Reed Smith and Morrison & Foerster still managed to pull of...

While many retired California judges are keeping busy as neutrals or sitting on assignment, most are finding themselves with m...

A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Legal education has come under fire in the past year, in part because job prospects for debt-laden law school graduates have p...

In an unprecedented effort to fight recidivism among federal criminal convicts, a new Central District program soon will give ...

Judges who died or exited active duty to take senior status in 2011 left the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seriously short...

Following a year of defending tough state budget cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to focus his attention on an equally divis...

The Northern District's pilot re-entry court is off to a strong start, with eight of its 10 original participants on track to ...

For U.S. initial public offerings in 2011, it the best of times and the worst of times.

Marcy Styles and Mary Trice knew that their days working as pro tem court reporters with the San Luis Obispo County Superior C...

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by private plaintiffs attempting to upend the October 2010 merger of Uni...

Next year promises to bring a showdown of forces in the area of First Amendment law. By David Urban of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore

The City of Los Angeles filed criminal charges Thursday against a company accused of being responsible for an oil spill near t...

Law firms and corporations are expected to hire more lawyers and legal staff in the first quarter of 2012, with the largest gr...

The Delaware Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a letter accusing then-HP Chairman Mark V. Hurd of sexual harassment should ...

California's pursuit of a clean energy-powered future has drawn praise, but the cost of its ambitions has been a constant com...

State judicial leaders announced Thursday that they are halting negotiations to use money from a private foundation to roll ou...

Copyright clawbacks are about to kick in for several recording artists of the 1970s, but the music industry's devastated label...

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated an immigrant couple's lawsuit that accuses Countrywide Bank of vi...

In an effort to clear up confusion about judicial review of parole decisions, the state Supreme Court on Thursday chided lower...

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block impending budget cuts that would have slashed Medi-Cal reimbursem...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against insurance adjusters seeking unpaid overtime, but didn't issue the broad ruli...

Once in a while you get answers in the unlikeliest of places. By David Ross, Los Angeles alternative public defender

In a blow to California's efforts to fight climate change, a Fresno federal judge ruled Thursday that a law cutting greenhouse...

Declaring a mistrial due to juror misconduct, a judge on Wednesday scuttled a potential $3 million jury verdict against the pr...

Telephone and internet users attacking the federal government's warrantless eavesdropping program that followed the Sept. 11, ...