Onstage at a San Francisco music club may seem like an unlikely place to find a lawyer. ...

Daniel Ben-Zvi focuses on relieving litigants' anxieties brought on by their long-running disputes. ...

Defendants in frivolous FEHA actions are now left to wonder: is there any case in which they will be able to recover their fee...

Re-establishing the integrity of the Justice Department, a vipers’ nest of partisanship and shoddy lawyering for the past eigh...

Citing a potential loss of judicial benefits, Superior Court Judge Joseph W. Hilberman said Wednesday he will be leaving the b...

While the State Bar prohibits attorneys from putting prospective liability waivers in contracts with their clients, mediators,...

With aggressive lawyering and a broad view of executive authority, President George W. Bush expanded boundaries of presidentia...

New law firm to form in Los Angeles.

It's not exactly a clandestine Prohibition operation, but tucked away from view in a corner of the garage of Richard Swanson's...

Lateefah Simon caught the activism bug at a young age. Now she's about to become the first nonattorney to lead the Lawyers' Co...

California law firms generated less revenue growth in the first nine months of 2008 than those nationally and may be poised to...

Sandra M. Snyder has been reappointed a U.S. magistrate judge for the state's eastern district. ...

Thanks to some last-minute changes by the Bush administration, the Endangered Species Act is now threatened itself, writes Bri...

New laws in Japan aim to reduce the impact on the environment of electronics products with relatively short lifecycles and pot...

"Living the Dream," a Web-only television show by lawyers, for lawyers, aims to be a virtual watering hole, where young lawyer...

The pro bono legal services organization Bet Tzedek is calling itself an indirect victim of Bernie Madoff, whose alleged $50 b...

The California Supreme Court on Tuesday denied review of an appellate court decision that stripped Los Angeles County judges o...

As general counsel of a global company that makes medical tests, Arnold A. Pinkston says he gets great job satisfaction knowin...

Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy and Robert Gentry long ago quit his manager’s job with the electronics retailer, but the...

Drugmakers that push medicines for dangerous off-label uses to boost profits are off-limits to plaintiffs and civil suits, a f...

While other U.S. attorneys across the nation are tendering their resignations in anticipation of President-elect Barack Obama’...

When California's top lawyer Friday asked the state's high court to invalidate the voter-passed initiative banning same-sex ma...

A Santa Clara County jury on Monday found that Pfizer Inc. stole a non-profit biotech firm's trade secrets to conduct low-key ...

Albert H. Meyerhoff Jr., a Los Angeles plaintiffs lawyer who devoted his life to championing the underdog, has died. He was 61...

Samantha O. Freedman, a 37-year-old partner in the Los Angeles office of Katten Muchin Rosenman, has died of unknown causes, a...

Columnist Martin Berg remembers the good works Homeboy Industries has done in Los Angeles, and says, don't forget to support i...

For stressed college students, access to necessary health care may be as elusive as the sleep they miss studying for exams, wr...

The Supreme Court will have to weigh whether the FCC's policy on expletives will have a chilling effect on political or artist...

In his year as the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, Thomas P. O’Brien has won the admiration of local law...

Law firms aren't the legal community's only victims in the ongoing recession that has toppled some of the industry's largest i...