Inland Empire district attorney races are heating up, with incumbent prosecutors in San Bernardino and Riverside counties each...
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced Friday that he was filing the first governmental consumer-protection...
The House of Representatives passed legislation Friday that would give the Eastern District of California two more permanent b...
Erik Swanholt and Sarah Conway of Jones Day say Coito v. Superior Court of Stanislaus County undercuts the attorney wor...
Italians Alessandro Steinfl and Enrica Bruno found a new home in American. Now they've made another move: from a big-firm law ...
Ashley Lipson and Robert Brain's new book tackles the history and role of litigation in the global computer and video game ind...
Tim Reuben of Reuben Raucher & Blum asks what's more important, free speech rights or client loyalty? ...
Practitioner Jeffrey Lowe examines Proposition 14, California's Top Two Primaries Act, which is set to be on the June 2010 bal...
Race, education level, and other demographic factors significantly impact the sentences federal offenders receive, according t...
H. Scott Leviant and Linh Hua of Spiro Moss say the cost cutting measures taken to combat the budget crisis jeopardizes our co...
U.S. Supreme Court
Lawyers Let Down by High Court Rulings On Privilege
By Lawrence Hurleyn
The legal establishment's attempts to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to shore up the attorney-client privilege in two cases t...
Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte's expansive career covers everything from public interest to patents.
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...
Alameda County (San Leandro) Superior Court JudgeHastings College of the Law ...
The legal talent who jump from firm to firm may grab the headlines. But often the man behind the moves in California is San Di...
Despite the new presidential administration's calls for more prosecutions of financial fraudsters and crooked politicians, som...
A Los Angeles attorney and three paralegals have been arrested in connection with a large fraud ring that allegedly faked auto...
The House of Representatives unanimously impeached a federal judge Thursday for allegedly taking bribes, lying to investigator...
Legal woes continue to pile up for David Bergstein, the financier whose film production and distribution entities are currentl...
Former KB Home Chairman Bruce E. Karatz was a greedy executive who stole $6 million from shareholders and hired a private dete...
After reaching a bipartisan compromise, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation Thursday to close the disparity in s...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit: Pledge is Constitutional
By John Roemer
The Pledge of Allegiance as recited daily by California schoolchildren is constitutional, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
With no law degree, Elisabeth Seaman gets to the heart of a dispute by considering emotions instead of wrangling over legal de...
Ross Hyslop and Gary Brucker Jr. of McKenna Long & Aldridge say recent class actions are troubling because they arise from...
Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo says Chavez v. City of Los Angeles finally gives employers leverage in negotiating sett...
Kenneth Gibbs of JAMS introduces a new and better way to resolve construction disputes that avoids expensive and protracted li...
Perspective
False Patent Marking: The Next Frontier for IP Litigation
By Andrew Blaken
Sunil Kulkarni and Rachel Krevans of Morrison & Foerster discuss the advantages of a false marking suit and how to protect...
Kathleen Sullivan, the high-profile head of business litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges' national appe...