New York Gov.David A. Paterson has appointed a 1991 UCLA School of Law graduate to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillar...

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

The law of the sea might sound like a Herman Melville novel, but for John E. Noyes, it's the glue that holds the global commun...

President Barack Obama announced Thursday the selection of San Francisco-based litigator Tony West to head up the Justice Depa...

Bush-era policies policies conflicted with core principles of international law on state equality and the nonuse of force, Mar...

After taking heat from lawmakers and bar associations claiming his appointments skewed too heavily toward white males, Gov. Ar...

A recent case established that employers aren't required to formally announce the beginning of the interactive process in orde...

The Long Beach Bar Association is set to swear in Maria M. Rohaidy tonight as its new president, making her the first Hispanic...

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and a former partner, Thomas Kohler, must face a fraud claim stemming from allegations by an elect...

Together, the state high court and the U.S. Supreme Court have issues a jumbled mess of rulings regarding the Federal Cigarett...

San Diego welder Elbert Thomas had to cut his work schedule when he developed neurological problems that restricted his abilit...

Democratic lawmakers said Thursday that empowering bankruptcy judges to rework troubled home loans was the only way to pull th...

"Slavery by Another Name" takes readers through the tangled web of Southern capitalism and the vicious treatment of African Am...

Mediator R. Elaine Leitner lets parties air their differences to find the roots of their disputes. ...

In 1989, Abraham Nager fathered a child for his lawyer, Renee E. Wilson. Nearly 20 years later, their unusual arrangement cou...

Univision Communications Inc., the largest Spanish language network in the U.S., settled a festering royalties dispute Thursda...

McDermott Will & Emery has moved into new 25,000-square-FOOT digs in new San Diego that can house 40 attorneys.

A spate of "produce the note" suits seek to enjoin the foreclosure process by alleging that the lender didn't have possession ...

Long-standing Beverly Hills business law firm Ervin, Cohen & Jessup has just taken on the largest acquisition of lawyers i...

A bankruptcy judge granted Heller Ehrman's request to reject five of its leases and approved its settlement with its Los Angel...

The mandatory settlement conference process is the only mechanism for bringing all parties together at the same time, and save...

Adding another black mark to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, a prosecutor has been punished for withholding...

A recent high court ruling proves that neither the governor nor the Parole Board always gets the last word on parole, writes L...

Recent policy reversals by Apple and the Recording Industry Association of America show that the music industry is finally rea...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed in a unanimous decision Wednesday to give judges more discretion to evaluate when law enforcemen...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly probing whether Apple Inc. made timely disclosures to its shareholde...

Television networks and production companies behind some of the biggest names in reality programming - including "The Bachelor...

Lawyers and staff are feeling the pain of layoffs at Cooley Godward Kronish. In a firmwide memo sent out Wednesday, Cooley CEO...

When the 25-year-old Washington, D.C. lawyer arrived in a Mississippi town in 1969 to try its only doctor for segregated waiti...