Lawyers headed to trial regularly overestimate their chances of success, and men do so more than women, according to a new stu...
Read our annual list of the state's Top 100 Women Litigators.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan knows exactly what to expect when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for...
Criticized over the leak of a "not qualified" rating given to Appellate Justice Charles Poochigian last summer, the State Bar ...
New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that the bank unlawfully seizes money from custom...
California Courts of Appeal
The Question of Liability for Manufacturers of Non-Defective Products
By Carla Pinedan
Jules Zeman and William Martin of Haight Brown & Bonesteel examine the trend of courts favoring manufacturers of non-defec...
With Elena Kagan nominated to join the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House now has another plum post to fill: solicitor genera...
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Inspector General Nicole Bershon explains the mission of the Office of the Inspector General for the Los Angeles Police Commis...
Redevelopment agencies across California began submitting $1.7 billion in supplemental tax payments to the state on Monday aft...
The man who accused local transit officials of taking him off his job in retaliation for his testimony at an upcoming trial is...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
A Missed Opportunity in Class Certification Law
By Sharon Liangn
Randall Edwards and Patricia Hsue of O'Melveny & Myers say Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will likely lead to furthe...
JM Eagle, the nation's largest plastic pipe manufacturer, has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit in which six coun...
A Las Vegas prosecutor has filed criminal charges and an arrest warrant against Los Angeles film financier David Bergstein ove...
Hearings on whether to dismiss a $2.3 million verdict against Dole Food Co Inc. began Monday, with Dole lawyers calling plaint...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Lawsuits Fly Over Use Of Database For Health Treatment Costs
By Evan George
A lawsuit over a controversial database which many insurers have long used to calculate payments to providers who treat patien...
Superior Court Judge Timothy Volkmann brings his Wisconsin charm to his courtroom.
Daniel Nishigaya, who once worked as an aide to O.J. Simpson's criminal defense team, spent 14 years as a prosecutor before ta...
Richard Prince's "Nurse in Hollywood #4" (2004) is at the center of a lawsuit filed by CNET Network founder Halsey Minor again...
General Counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District Los Angeles ...
Judges and Judiciary
Eastern District Announces New National Security Section
By Greg Kanen
U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in Sacramento Friday announced the formation of a new unit to handle international and domestic ...
A court in British Columbia Friday denied Lions Gate Entertainment's effort to use a poison pill to prevent a hostile takeover...
A team of Palo Alto-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett lawyers represented New York-based web services company AOL Inc. as i...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
An Unavoidable Conflict of Interest
By Carla Pinedan
Private lawyers exercising the power of the state under contingency fee contracts cannot be expected to act in the public's in...
Two years after selling his practice to devote himself fully to his pro-bono work, Michael Rapkin decided to hang out another ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a long-held patent covering the critical building blocks for genetic science...
"Kings of Tort" chronicles the sordid tale of judicial bribery and political intrigue in Mississippi, long known as one of the...
The legal industry continued to shed jobs in April according to data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor, counter ...
Kathleen Clark of Servant Lawyership catches up with the players in James Woods medical malpractice action that arose from the...