Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of the Law asks whether out-of-state incarceration will really reduce expenditure per inma...
When counseling an employee with a history of unacceptable performance, careful documentation is key, writes John McLachlan of...
It's a tense atmosphere in the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office as the 979-member office stares down a proposed 10 percent b...
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lawyers filed initial public offering papers Friday to take luxury electric carmaker Tesl...
Nicholas Targ and Elizabeth Lake of Holland & Knight discuss the issue of solar energy development opportunities in the Mo...
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...
District Attorney Dolores Carr appears to have forgotten that justice is not about winning or losing, write Kathleen Ridolfi a...
Salvatore Picariello of Pepper Hamilton advises on how to improve an employee's work experience while also protecting the empl...
Mediator and neutral David Miller tackles the issue of gender stereotypes and its role in the mediation process. ...
Jessica Vapnek of DPK Consulting provides a first person account of what it felt like in Haiti during and after the earthquake...
The California Supreme Court signaled Thursday that locking up sexually violent predators indefinitely might be unconstitution...
Government
MTA and Builder Still Fighting, After 15 years and $32 Million in Fees
By Gabe Friedmann
What price victory? That's the focus of a 15-year-old case pitting the Metropolitan Transportation Agency against an engineeri...
The California Association of Workplace Investigators was launched in October as the first group of its kind in the nation, a...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
The University of California, San Diego, and California Western School of Law have formed a joint committee to consider a part...
Funk musician Sly Stone filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday claiming a former manager withheld as much as $...
Prosecutors say that Vista Superior Court Judge Harry M. Elias is biased against them and should step down from a burglary cas...
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Andre Birotte Jr. Thursday to become the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.
East Bay Law School, an unaccredited school in Oakland that came under scrutiny late last year and was shut down in December u...
On Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced appointments to Orange, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara and Madera co...
Sean Riordan was touched by the plight of African refugees a decade ago. A two-year fellowship brought him to the ACLU in San ...
Do you want fries with that pole dance? That's the kind of question you'll get at a San Bernardino strip club that has been mi...
A judge on Thursday urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to drop its civil fraud complaint against four Broadcom execu...
Debt-burdened movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is staring down the barrel of a twice-extended loan payment due Sunday, but is ...
San Bernandino county officials exonerated District Attorney Michael Ramos of claims by a female investigator that he retaliat...
Advocates have filed a class action against the city and county of Los Angeles that seeks to force local officials to formally...
Palo Alto-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius lawyers helped the electric vehicle servicer Better Place secure a $350 million ro...
California Supreme Court
High Court Considers Whether to Compel Rape Testimony
By Laura Ernden
None of the California Supreme Court justices took kindly to the suggestion Wednesday that rape victims should be forced to cr...