Although judges are not allowed to engage in political lobbying, three Los Angeles County Superior Court bench officers are am...

Broadcom Corp. announced Friday in a filing to shareholders that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how i...

Virtually anything that happens in the workplace can bear on the fundamental worker status question. ...

In the past two months, plaintiffs' lawyers have filed nearly two dozen class-action complaints alleging violations of a littl...

Conflicts of interest disqualify a Palo Alto intellectual property boutique from representing a plaintiff suing Japanese elect...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken up the cause of online attorney reviews, asking a Northern District judge to prot...

East Palo Alto Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP partners Jane Ross and Richard E. Climan advised Texas-based Dell Inc. on its acquisiti...

For property owners targeted by city inspectors, the best defense is a good offense. By Ellia Thompson of CA Land Use Professi...

A district court judge rejected an attempt by railroad companies to hold the South Coast Air Quality Management District in co...

An Obama administration initiative to better regulate nationally how debt collectors pursue their targets echo problems laid b...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case next week that could stop foreign victims of human rights abuses from sue corporations...

The state Administrative Office of the Courts is scheduled to begin trial today on its allegations that a contractor owes the...

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has significantly reduced compensation for some mid-level business generators, according to several so...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Bet Tzedek appointed Elissa Barrett as vice president and general counsel.

More than 15 years after Proposition 209, Black and Hispanic students remain under-enrolled at UC campuses. By Mark S. William...

Some parents in dependency court say Commissioner Debra Losnick showed them the right direction.

Judge Sheila K. Oberto has spent most of her career in public service in her adopted country.

A common complaint about California's unaccredited law schools is that many of their graduates can't pass the bar exam. Now, s...

For decades college athletes and NCAA officials have debated whether players deserve a slice of the billions of dollars in rev...

Several Los Angeles plaintiffs' law firms seeking compensation for descendants of Armenians killed under the Turkish Ottoman E...

A San Mateo County judge on Wednesday tentatively dismissed a complaint brought by a New York-based couple that alleged the co...

Jacqueline A. Connor said she left the bench because budget cuts made her job increasingly difficult. Now she's a neutral at A...

The public debate over Internet privacy is raging. But while privacy advocates have gained traction with Congress, their effor...

A documentary chronicling the scope and magnitude of lawsuit abuse is free to Daily Journal readers for a limited time. By Rob...

A 230-megawatt solar project being developed by First Solar near Los Angeles that had run into permitting delays is again movi...

The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the federal Environmental Protection Agency Thursday over its failure to decide whe...

Don't be fooled, the real negotiations begin the moment you enter the mediator's conference room. By Malcolm Sher ...

Plyler v. Doe gave undocumented children the right to attend public schools, but implementation of this ruling has not ...