Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has named a new managing partner in Sacramento.

Irma Poole Asberry, with 27 years of experience in divorce litigation, thought she was well-prepared for her family law judic...

In a moment rich in symbolism, the high-water mark of the civil rights movement was evoked - if not eclipsed - when Barack Oba...

The Daily Journal's annual roundup of 20 top California lawyers under 40 spotlights practitioners working on cutting edge matt...

As supervising judge of Ventura County's family law court, John Smiley is used to presiding over cases that sometimes go on f...

In contrast to the sometimes-unwieldy team of five lawyers Phil Spector had for his first murder trial, Doron Weinberg - along...

As the California Supreme Court struggles with a case pitting gay rights against the will of voters, an academic program this ...

Mad about the flawed process known as the Bowl Championship Series? Blame the Supreme Court, writes Robert D. Brain. - Forum C...

Despite all of the litigation efforts made, America still awaits a clear definition of the Clean Water Act's reference to the ...

In 2008, California's appellate courts issued a number of decisions clarifying insurance coverage issues, writes Kirk A. Pasic...

The Daily Journal's annual roundup of 20 top California lawyers under 40 spotlights practitioners working on cutting edge matt...

Another chunk of the former entertainment practice at the now-defunct Dreier Stein Kahan has found a new home. They are starti...

A judge will weigh three requests this afternoon from attorneys representing Heller Ehrman in its bankruptcy: that the dissolv...

A federal judge has ordered lawyers in the Bratz doll litigation into court next week for an extraordinary hearing to discuss ...

Los Angeles-based First Regional Bancorp has elected a principal at Calabasas-based Horgan, Rosen, Beckham & Coren as its ...

Former East Philadelphia police officer Richard A. Platel now enforces justice as a California Bar Court judge. ...

As President Barack Obama takes office in the nation's capital, attention on the other side of the country - specifically in t...

The tiny word "of" had big implications for angry AOL members looking to sue after their Internet service provider publicly di...

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 ...