While the Legislature continues to struggle through budget cut battles, the race to become the state's leading law enforcer is...

A recent 1st Circuit case dealt a frightening blow to taxpayers' rights ...

A watered down version of the state Senate's prison budget reduction plan was passed by the Assembly on Monday - leaving legis...

Pop star left massive debt - but also a potential for hundreds of millions of dollars in earnings. ...

Three non-lawyers who created and managed American Law Center, a Sacramento bankruptcy firm, have pleaded guilty to falsifyin...

Corporate management and legal aid attorneys should realize that victim restitution can benefit shareholders, as well as those...

For companies to make online file-sharing legal and successful, some changes will have to be made, writes Ronald S. Rosen. ...

The state's judicial watchdog agency has admonished a former Los Angeles County Superior Court judge for not properly supervis...

A recent 9th Circuit case proved that certain rights cannot be terminated by a broad and general waiver, no matter how compreh...

Chevron Corp. has videotapes it claims prove corruption in the Ecuadorian judicial system where it has been fighting a multibi...

Fish & Richardson will close its Austin, Texas, office and essentially eliminate its small corporate department at the end...

The destructive wildfires tearing through Southern California are expected to be a likely topic in Las Vegas this weekend for ...

In "The Little White Book of Baseball Law," John H. Minan and Kevin Cole discuss the legal issues of stadium construction, mem...

Lawyers from Paul Hastings and Dewey & LeBoeuf helped wrap up marathon negotiations for the Mouse House's $4 billion purch...

Federal authorities have dropped their investigation of Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former school board member...

A female photographer who claims she was sexually assaulted by two Sacramento firefighters at the capitol's Porn Star Costume ...

Commissioner Collette Serio got "burned" this summer. A lenient judge who believes in rehabilitation, she took a harsh line wi...

When people talk about video games and quarters these days, it's usually in reference the industry's strong earnings. But ther...

Every judicial officer and lawyer handling criminal matters must be knowledgeable about the reinvention of the Confrontation C...

It's an encouraging sign when a retailer struggling in today's market can attract a solvent suitor, says Fred Muto, a partner ...

Yahoo Inc. announced it has agreed to buy Maktoob.com, a popular online community in the Arab world, with more than 16.5 milli...

The Los Angeles legal community has taken possession of a room in Basra, Iraq, and filled it with CornNuts, writes Nora Quinn....

Ed Reeser asks: Can a law firm that has lost its way resurrect itself by finding its culture once again? ...

All alternative fees require a comfortable relationship of trust between the outside lawyer and client, where value, not profi...

California's current constitution rivals India's for being the longest and most confusing in the world, writes Jeffrey A. Lowe...

White-collar attorney Jan L. Handzlik, who has defended the likes of fallen lawyer Terry Christensen and "Girls Gone Wild" fou...

Two more Cooley Godward Kronish partners have left to join Dewey & LeBoeuf, joining a trio of corporate rainmakers who dep...

In a case involving a long-running water war between the northern and southern parts of the state, a judge has issued a tentat...

Immigrant and labor groups suffered a setback this week when a judge tossed out a lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration...

Are parolees accused of wrongdoing entitled to lawyers? With a clash between a state ballot measure and a federal consent dec...