An unlicensed real estate agent pleaded guilty Monday in Los Angeles federal court to bribery charges for offering to pay thou...

Know the telltale symptoms that identify which cases are ripe for receiverships. By Gordon L. Gerson of Gerson Law Firm APC ...

A jury has ordered L.A. Unified School District to pay a 14-year-old more than $1 million after school officials sent him on a...

California municipalities are on edge as the Federal Communications Commission considers measures to speed up the deployment o...

UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu failed to win Senate approval for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But i...

Judge Valerie Salkin was young when confronted with the criminal acts she now sees every day.

Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for Ascent Capital Group, Inc. (Denver, CO) ...

Plain-talking Judge Hugh Walker is open about his tough sentences and sexual-orientation.

A statewide committee is refusing to change a criminal jury instruction that a federal judge criticized last year as being unc...

One night in baseball history - a dramatic tale akin to the best legal drama. By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm ...

California will produce almost twice as many attorneys as the labor market will be able to absorb over the next four years. By...

The Obama administration cozies up to alleged torturers in the name of "foreign relations." By Roger Clark of The Clark Law Gr...

Although contrary to human instinct, being civil can lead to better results and less monetary and emotional costs. By Richard ...

Older couples ending their lengthy marriages face a complex and unique set of issues. By Marlo Van Oorschot of Law Offices of ...

While Superior Courts around the state are closing courtrooms and eliminating key services, Orange County's court is not. It p...

A Corona del Mar cancer doctor was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1 million in ...

California's general-obligation bond drought may soon come to an end, as the possibility of short-term notes appears on the ho...

Two video game trade associations that convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on violent video games wa...

State Administrative Office of the Courts Deputy Director Ronald G. Overholt will move into the agency's top spot when Directo...

GSI Technology Inc. announced Monday it has sued Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in the Northern District, alleging it conspired t...

A former Irell & Manella LLP partner has sued her former firm for being forced out of her job in 2009 after objecting to s...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup rejected an Oracle expert's damages report late Friday, calling it an "overreach" on the amo...

A San Diego law school argues its low bar passage rate should have tipped prospective students off that the chances of finding...

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP picked up former SEC official Michael F. Perlis to lead a new securities litigation and i...

Charles T. Manatt, founder of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, died Friday of complications from a stroke. ...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP is attempting to put an end to the infighting and partner defections that have recently plagued the ...

A federal appellate court's efforts to slash large damage awards for patents that infringe a small part of a product is gettin...

Gov. Jerry Brown has tapped UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu for the state Supreme Court. ...

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

Saying there was no easy way to spread the pain of $350 million in state budget cuts this year, the Judicial Council voted Fri...