Congressional Republicans are once again trying to slash spending on the quasi-governmental organization that funds legal aid ...

The State Bar has appointed its second-in-command, Robert A. Hawley, to temporarily oversee the discipline office in the wake ...

A former employee sued Thomas Jefferson School of Law last week, alleging that systematic sexual harassment by a supervisor of...

San Diego firm Lake APC has taken on a lawsuit against Facebook founder and social media titan Mark Zuckerberg. ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has begun quietly organizing a statewide network of advisers to vet judicial candidates. But state lawmakers ...

Christine Varney announced Monday that she will step down from her post as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division...

Legal consultancy Altman Weil released a report Wednesday saying the number of law firm mergers and acquisitions has picked up...

The Health Committee in the California Senate voted 5-3 on Wednesday to forward a bill to the Senate Appropriations Committee ...

Akin Gump has hit an unexpected stumbling block after switching hats to try out plaintiffs' side consumer fraud class action l...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an eight-month-old stay on a trial court ruling that declared unconstitutional th...

Options are few and hard to come by as top courts leaders look for how and where to cut $150 million from the judiciary's budg...

A three-year legal battle over oil drilling in an urban area of Los Angeles County reached a resolution this week when the co...

Engineering firm Parsons Corp. sold its corporate headquarters in Pasadena to a joint venture between Morgan Stanley Real Esta...

After years targeting businesses over physical barriers, disability rights lawyers are focusing more and more attention on the...

Law firms jockey for who has the best Supreme Court practice, but rarely do you hear discussion on the business side of this n...

Five tips on how to get your point across to the judge. By Blair Schlecter of Hurrell Cantrall ...

This is the first ruling on the law's constitutionality since the U.S. attorney general announced that the Obama administratio...

The Obama administration last week attacked the federal Defense of Marriage Act's constitutionality and argued that a 9th U.S....

Federal authorities will review later this month whether the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority is in complianc...

A cost-saving measure for in-house counsel engaged in commercial litigation. By Gilda R. Turitz of Sideman & Bancroft LLP,...

Large swathes of ocean off the West Coast are expected to be designated protected areas for endangered leatherback sea turtles...

Alameda County has agreed to accommodate Spanish- and Chinese-speaking voters in a deal to settle a lawsuit alleging civil rig...

The internet domain name manager Go Daddy Group Inc. turned to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for its recent sale to ...

Environmental groups pushing the federal government to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, marine vessels an...

Although an Ecuadorean judge ruled in February that Chevron Corp. should pay $18 billion for alleged environmental harm to the...

A federal judge has certified a class action against the Angels baseball team and the city of Anaheim for having too few wheel...

New laws passed last week to curtail redevelopment agencies could lead to not one suit but a slew of offshoot litigation by de...

A California State Bar panel is weighing whether to deny an undocumented immigrant admission to the bar solely on the grounds ...

Reaching ever higher has taken JoAnn Johnson from grocery store box girl to Superior Court Commissioner.

With the death of the traditional library in the Internet age - and the interaction that went along with it - law firms are re...