Conferences Tuesday brought law firm leaders and in-house counsel together to address the continued reality of women failing t...

The Daily Journal should do more to showcase the contributions of female lawyers. By Gay Grunfeld of Rosen, Bien & Galvan ...

Lawyers representing supposed victims of a real estate mogul charged with fraud are in hot water, facing allegations they dupl...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an employee's spoken complaints, like written ones, are covered by anti-retaliation ...

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community deserves more attention from the legal community. By J. Dominic Campodo...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously allowed a securities fraud class-action suit against the drug maker Matrixx Initiatives Inc...

Our present-day immigration policies resemble those targeted at Asian Americans in the 19th century. By Karin Wang of the Asia...

Grocery chains' right to break union strikes using profit-sharing pacts came under renewed scrutiny Tuesday by the 9th U.S. Ci...

In a last ditch bid to avoid Gov. Jerry Brown's chopping block, California's redevelopment agencies offered to give up some fu...

With the operation of the California court system under increasing attack by legislators and a large group of judges, William ...

Redondo Beach's right to ban day laborers from standing on roadways to solicit work came under withering fire Monday at the 9t...

Hilary Rhonan, an informal juvenile court referee, intervenes in the lives of first-time offenders, usually without lawyers in...

General counsel for Directors Guild of America Los Angeles ...

A lawyer connected to an embattled immigration firm is told by court to stop misleading clients. ...

Morrison & Foerster LLP is advising Internet publishing service Shutterfly Inc. in its $333 million acquisition of Sunnyva...

A Northern District magistrate judge has ordered the FBI to allow third-party testing of bomb remnants from an unsolved case i...

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against three individuals and four firms who allegedly raised...

Depomed Inc., a Menlo Park-based biotechnology firm, announced in a document filed recently with the Securities and Exchange C...

The newly created California Citizens Redistricting Commission has retained the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as...

With the hire of Dian M. Grueneich, Morrison & Foerster LLP now has expertise very few law firms can boast of - a former C...

Veteran Northern District Federal Public Defender Barry J. Portman is retiring after more than 36 years in the office, includi...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Monday to hand prosecutors a victory by narrowing the circumstances in which a defendan...

A movie-rental website claims to have found a way around negotiating license fees with studios, but the Silicon Valley upstar...

The state Supreme Court clarifies the exceptions to the five-year rule for bringing lawsuits to trial. By Richard L. Kellner a...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a government official who commits perjury during grand jury testimony is entit...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it took a capital case in which a death row inmate missed a filing deadline through no...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the legal battle pitting industry giant Universal Music Group against Eminem...

Class actions filed on behalf of people in wheelchairs have a lot of money riding on certification issues. By David Faustman a...

The seven-year dispute over box-office flop "Sahara," featuring a jury trial, six appeals and tens of millions of dollars in l...

How will determination of future medical expenses be affected if insurers can no longer deny coverage based on a pre-existing ...