For the first time in six months, the consensus of law firm managing partners is that the worst of the recession is over, but ...

In "The Constitution in 2020" several scholars lay out their plan to bring the Constitution back from the dead, writes Matt Va...

David T. Bristow, a former county prosecutor, criminal defense attorney and civil litigator, has been appointed as a U.S. Magi...

Guy N. Halgren, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Age: 53, Years as Managing Partner: 8, Practice Area: Labor and E...

Students may be gone for the summer, but law school officials aren't pulling out the sunscreen and beach umbrellas just yet.

These are grim times for start-up biotech and life science companies. Yet, unlike the clean-tech industry, they aren't seeing ...

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, wants to end the Legal Services Corp.'s ban on legal nonprofits requesting attorney fees and fil...

Scott Drexel's actions as chief trial counsel sometimes weighed punishment above justice, writes Joel Drum.

Douglas E. Phillips discusses the legal uncertainties of Creative Commons licenses in his book "The Software License Unveiled:...

A federal jury took less than five hours to acquit three former Ralphs Grocery Co. executives and managers of charges alleging...

The recent swine flu outbreak is further proof that all American workers deserve paid sick leave, writes Judy Patrick.

The Los Angeles Film Festival screened a purported documentary on the plight of Dole plantation workers in Nicaragua despite a...

A key tenet of appellate practice can be summed up by the Rolling Stones song that declares "You can't always get what you wan...

Jonathan Rotter, a civil litigator, recalls how volunteering as a prosecutor opened his eyes to the good, bad and ugly of the ...

A deeply divided California Supreme Court made it easier Monday for prosecutors to hold multiple gang members responsible for ...

A 79-year-old retired electrical contractor is now at the center of an unusual court battle with the city of Colton that will ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected California's request to overturn a key appellate ruling that has let lawyers stymie ...

In a blow to school districts around the country, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that parents who place disabled children...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to intervene in the case of a former Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Lynn Magnandon...

The devil is in the details of Facebook's new policy allowing trademark owners to notify the site of their IP rights, write Do...

In a surprise ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to strike down a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, but ne...

After vowing to get its money back for financing the legal expenses of its former chief executive and others, Brocade Communic...

Some big California firms actually seem to have gotten the message that they must be more efficient in their litigation manage...

It is time to remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam through the use of Agent Oran...

If the Uniform Collaborative Law Act passes, attorneys should prepare for clients' piqued interest in the collaborative law pr...

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A federal trial judge in Oakland was wrong to toss a class action on behalf of people who received text messages on their cell...

An upstanding criminal defense attorney who turned his life around? Or a ne'er-do-well who couldn't leave his trouble with the...

A new generation of asbestos trusts now tempts plaintiffs' lawyers to seek double recoveries, write Jacob C. Cohn and Joseph A...

The new law school at UCI boosted its faculty by half with the announcement Friday that it had hired a group of seven highly d...