Millionaire construction magnate Ron Tutor is hoping a judge will pave the way for one of his companies to foreclose on a larg...

Children of unauthorized immigrants deserve access to our higher education system. By Jennifer Chacón of the UCI School of Law...

The information you post on Facebook is easy prey for law enforcement, identity thieves and lawyers. By Orange County attorney...

Weeks after being accused of bribing witnesses in connection with the long-running Nicaraguan banana farm pesticide litigation...

Federal appellate committee looks into billing irregularities for work done by private attorneys who receive tax money. ...

Proposition 19 withstands constitutional objections and leads to a more rational drug policy. By Allen Hopper of the ACLU. ...

Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading "Introduction to Receiverships" by Edythe L. Bronston and David J. Pasternak and answe...

Barbara Scheper runs formal proceedings in her Chatsworth courtroom. Some attorneys say it stems from her background in federa...

Understand what receiverships are, when they are appropriate and the scope of their powers. By Edythe L. Bronston and David J....

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

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Fear and greed. That's what helped fuel millions of dollars in fraudulent claims being paid out following a series of Californ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set a Dec. 6 oral argument date for hearing the Proposition 8 same-sex marriage case Thu...

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted 61 individuals accused of distributing large quantities of methamphetamine an...

Paging divorcing lawyers: Partnership profits earned during marriage qualify as community property, even if they were distribu...

A San Francisco Superior Court judge has ruled that a portion of the arrest warrant documents for a former Morrison & Foer...

Judiciate West neutral Gary N. Donovan has talent for settling conflicts. ...

A well-known Burlingame plaintiffs' firm and a San Mateo lawyer who has sued Pacific Gas & Electric Co. twice before are l...

Critics are fuming over how San Francisco judicial candidate Michael Nava's name was translated in Chinese for the ballot, but...

Plaintiffs' lawyers suing Wal-Mart in the largest gender discrimination class action in U.S. history laid out their arguments ...

William Shepard writes in response to 'Ballot Translation of Judicial Candidate's Name Raises Eyebrows.' ...

An increasingly complex and expensive judicial process has created a demand for resolving family law issues out of court. By E...

The legal profession needs to move beyond the status quo. By Deborah Epstein Henry of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC. ...

The federal government may no longer need written legislation in order to pre-empt state laws. By Brian Kabateck and Evan Zuck...

Successful people have certain traits that make them less likely to improve their decision-making skills. By Randall Kiser of ...

Lawyers should know what to do and what to avoid when interviewed by the press. By Asha Blake of Goldenheart Media and Bradley...

Chevron Corp. has won two more significant victories in U.S. courts as it tries to uncover evidence to support its claim that ...

In response to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision, the California Fair Political Practices Commission ...

A judicial oversight body publicly admonished Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John T. Doyle on Thursday for breaching ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday denied Mattel's request for a re-hearing of its July opinion reversing a trial ...