State prison guards don't owe attorneys fees to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in a 1st Amendment suit, a 1s...

Attorneys from Schiff Hardin, led by San Francisco of counsel K. William Neuman and associate Brett Greenberg, recently comple...

Family law practitioners Stacy Phillips and Ram Cogen say the silence amidst attorneys during a budget crisis that will severe...

Christine Peek of McManis Faulkner examines the debate over broadcasting the Prop. 8 trial and action taken to disseminate inf...

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, perhaps best known for presiding over some of Southern California's toughest cases ...

John A. Boyd looked up to the judges' bench in a Riverside bankruptcy courtroom. He asked for relief from a stay in a case so ...

Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's courtroom last week was transformed into a lecture hall of sorts, with a parade ...

Despite a life spent in private schools, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP associate Danielle Katzir found herself at the heart...

Four short months after his September hire as general counsel, Jon Sobel has ceased work at the high-profile Silicon Valley el...

Readers comment on proposal to revise the professional rules of ethics to address the “innocent-convict.”

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...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided to intervene Friday over whether the names of those who supported a petition calling for a refe...

U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of Los Angeles got the boot from yet another case Friday as a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...

Charles "Tim" McCoy, presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, has demanded that the Judicial Council divert m...

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

The former employees of San Francisco-based law firm Thelen voluntarily dismissed an $18 million class action lawsuit this wee...

Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker on Thursday asked 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski t...

A federal judge wrestled Thursday with the thorny question of whether a law firm could defend a former technology company exec...

A former Irvine attorney who squandered nearly all of a $2.7 million settlement he won for his class action plaintiffs pleaded...

The class action alleges East Los Angeles Regional Center terminated a common and vital therapy called DIR to close its budget...

The leading maker of a medical imaging drug linked to a rare and potentially fatal disease settled with a San Francisco man, e...

Mediator and arbitrator Deborah Rothman says "litigization" of the mediation process has resulted in less client satisfaction ...

Law firms may have spent the past year scrimping and saving, reducing head counts and cutting costs across the board, but days...

Justice Eileen Moore of the Court of Appeal compares Hollywood's movie industry with the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of rac...

Sue Burrell of the Youth Law Center concludes her piece on the need to increase and expand specialty training efforts for juve...

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has died, two months before she was set to retire. She was 69. Cooper was undergoin...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday rebuffed an attorney's $871,000 fee request for winning an employment discrimination ...

An Orange County judge has dismissed charges of Penal Code violations against Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey S...

A Sacramento Superior Court judge invalidated a set of contracts Thursday that threatens to unravel a hard fought plan to divv...

Three innocent teens wrongly accused of killing the 12-year-old sister of one of the accused can sue two San Diego County citi...