A case empowering government agencies to retain private counsel in civil actions raises ethical issues. By Thomas Gede and Nim...
Now that the belated budget has been released, health care lawyers are weighing the winners and losers, as well as the possibl...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court Questions Habeas Calls by California Supreme Court
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The U.S. Supreme Court took aim at the California Supreme Court Tuesday, focusing on whether summary denials of habeas corpus ...
Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) Superior Court Judge ...
In the political blame game over her hiring of an undocumented immigrant as a housekeeper, legal experts said Meg Whitman and ...
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Gen-Probe Inc. San Diego ...
State officials Monday approved real estate partnership California First, LLC, as buyer for 11 state office properties in a $2...
A San Luis Obispo family is suing the California Coastal Commission, accusing the agency of trying to illegally grab its land ...
Earlier this summer, risk-consulting firm Altegrity Risk International gobbled up Kroll, its biggest competitor, for $1.13 bil...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has filed an unusual motion for protective order seeking to shield L...
His father's murder a decade ago in a small Iowa town helped new State Bar President William N. Hebert see the legal system fr...
A program run by the Los Angeles County Bar Association has taught school teachers, administrators and students in middle scho...
Perspective
The Novartis Verdict: Impact on Employers and Lessons Learned
By Karen Natividadn
Slammed with the largest jury verdict ever in an employment discrimination case, what Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. did wrong...
A lament about the distressing decline in proper grammar in both written and spoken English. By Paul Von Blum of Loyola Law Sc...
Female employees still earn less than their male counterparts, but the pay gap continues to get smaller each year. By English ...
Bain Capital Partners further drove the upward trend in private equity-backed acquisitions when it announced plans Monday to b...
Government
Death Row Inmates Challenge State's New Lethal Injection Method
By Rebecca Beyer
Two death row inmates whose executions were put on hold by a federal judge have renewed a challenge to the state's lethal inje...
Larry S. Watanabe responds to article, "Law Firms Wary of Lateral Hires." ...
Perspective
Choosing a New Attorney General: There's More to It Than Criminal Law
By Genevieve Knollen
When voting for a new attorney general, factor in the candidate's business, not just criminal, policies. By John H. Sullivan o...
Demystifying the transition from private practice to academia. By Briana Rosenbaum of Stanford Law School. ...
The latest transactions by California attorneys.
When a duo of senior lawyers left Cooley for Dewey & LeBoeuf, Cooley's chairman said the departures would have "a liberat...
General Counsel of Sanmina-SCI Corp.San Jose ...
Incumbent labor union Service Employees International Union bested its rival, National Union of Healthcare Workers, in a an el...
Lawmakers passed a budget early Friday morning - 100 days into the new fiscal year - and in it preserved a deal brokered in J...
Days after a $545 million settlement was announced that would resolve a nationwide class action against Farmers Group Inc., pl...
The legal sector gained 2,500 jobs nationwide in September, according to a preliminary report released Friday by the U.S. Depa...
An attempt by Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, to authorize the sale of the fabled Del Mar Fairgrounds, home to thoroughbre...
Bank of America's decision to suspend foreclosure sales of under-water homes in all 50 states reflects the nation's broad conf...
A federal judge has dismissed the single narrow claim that remained in Chevron Corp.'s malicious prosecution lawsuit against a...