As a president coming into office with a scary economic crisis, two wars, shaky confidence in public institutions, diminished ...

Weathering the global recession will require most companies to take pro-active cost-cutting measures, write Susan Eandi and Ut...

Attorneys and colleagues hailed U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte, who is taking senior status in March after 16 years on the f...

Our asylum laws should be updated so that they protect women who have survived severe domestic violence at the hands of their ...

Unlike other San Francisco law firms struggling because of the recession, Littler Mendelson is betting that the economic turmo...

On a summer day in 1963, litigator Sanford Jay Rosen witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech deliv...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday to take on two touchy education issues arising out of separate 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...

Los Angeles County Judge Brett C. Klein, an accomplished trumpeter, is among 30 judges and lawyers who have formed LA Lawyers ...

Attorneys from Jones Day pulled off a stunning acquittal of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona on five of six corruption...

Patricia Nieto points the way for wayward youths by emphasizing her working-class upbringing. ...

Hunton & Williams has taken in four former Heller Ehrman associates.

The matters heard in the courtroom - driving under the influence, drug infractions, assault - are routine, but the defendants ...

Da Vinci prints dress up a plain Redlands courtroom, reflecting the roots of Cynthia A. Ludvigsen, who sits on the probate be...

President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., walked a fine line at his confirmation hearing T...

In one of the most backlogged trial courts in California, Riverside County Judge Christopher J. Sheldon made a habit of leavin...

A 9th Circuit panel Thursday considered whether an Alameda County ordinance banning guns on county property violates the First...

Asia is the next frontier in the two-century debate about state execution as a criminal punishment, write David T. Johnson and...

As the March primary in the crowded Los Angeles city attorney race draws near, lawyers are donating money for their favorite c...

Thanks to a recent appellate court decision, corporate officers can be held liable for environmental wrongdoings, write Matthe...

The pending Employee Free Choice Act could have a drastic effect on union organization success rates, writes D. Gregory Valenz...

If only CalTrans had agreed to another traffic signal on Coast Highway, the weird and expensive litigation might have been avo...

Former judge Robert Baines is happy to shed the bench's confining decorum. ...

Will the last act of Roman Polanski’s fugitive saga be a courtroom showdown in Los Angeles, asks Arnold Friedman. - Forum Colu...

Another reason why a lawyer representing himself has a fool for a client came from the California Supreme Court Thursday. Lawy...

The two remaining name partners at Dreier Stein Kahan - the West Coast affiliate firm of jailed New York litigator Marc Dreier...

The thorny debate over reforming California's decrepit prison health care system, which continues to rage in a San Francisco c...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom scored big on a $2.8 billion deal in which the firm's client Santa Ana-based Advanced...

A former Mayer Brown partner has joined the litigation department of Dykema Gossett in Los Angeles office.

Jury is still out on fairness declarations.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley isn't immune from retaliation claims by a deputy prosecutor, the 9th U.S. Ci...