With Latham & Watkins' announcement that the firm will be freezing associate salaries at 2008 levels for the coming year, ...

Maurice R. Hogan Jr., a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and JAMS mediator, has died after a long battle with Parkinso...

After a drawn-out negotiation guided by lawyers from O'Melveny & Myers and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, French-owned video ...

Attorneys looking to cut costs in a down market should take a cue from successful plaintiffs' lawyers, write Micah R. Jacobs a...

The Commission on Judicial Performance Tueday publicly admonished Alameda judge Christine Moruza, citing numerous cases in whi...

A sharply divided 9th Circuit sent a human rights lawsuit back to an L.A. federal judge for her to consider whether the Papu...

Starting Jan. 1, children covered by Medi-Cal, the state's version of Medicaid, will have to submit paperwork every six months...

Despite all those jokes depicting lawyers as aggressive bloodsuckers, sometimes it's in the client's best interests for attorn...

Coldplay will have to face the music for their mega-hit "Viva La Vida" when they meet guitar legend Joe Satriani in court over...

Edlene McKenzie, the globe-trotting daughter of an Air Force officer, settles in as a family law commissioner on San Diego C...

Winston & Strawn has named three attorneys to partnership in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.

Hundreds of convicted prisoners in California could have the chance to seek new sentences after the U.S. Supreme Court decline...

Sean Farrell, a transactional lawyer and litigator with Manly & Stewart in Newport Beach, is also an adventurer. He says t...

In its first major decision of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal law does not prevent plaintiffs from...

The Sierra Club’s current leadership scored a victory Monday when the California Supreme Court ended a long-running power stru...

Sexual violence is pervasive throughout U.S. prisons — and no one is harder hit than inmates who identify as LGBT, writes Lovi...

Ricardo A. Torres, who overhauled the Los Angeles courts' administrative system, is nearly two decades later hearing long-...

In light of Proposition 8, employers should re-examine domestic partner benefit policies now that such partnerships are the on...

Disgraced former private investigator to the stars Anthony Pellicano was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Monday for ru...

Cooper, White & Cooper promoted Vijay K. Toke to partner in its San Francisco office.

If courtroom theatrics and chest-thumping arrogance are what you look for in a judge, 4th District Court of Appeal Associate J...

In motions, MGA lawyers said U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson's rulings raise "serious" and "novel" legal questions that ...

Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco testified Friday in federal court in San Francisco that a proposal to reduce th...

Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Law School professor and expert on cyberlaw who recently began researching the corrupting influe...

Ever since Ropes & Gray established its San Francisco office in 2001, the 30-plus-attorney outpost of the Boston-based fir...

Once the channels of communication have been severed by the filing of a lawsuit, parties begin to make up “what really happene...

Recent laws point to a paradigm shift for chemical regulation whereby chemical risks are analyzed in advance of exposure in an...

A skilled lawyer knows how to transform jurors from passive observers into active advocates who will lobby for his or her side...

As disgraced ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano faces his sentencing today , significant differences have emerged betwe...

Victor J. Gold had been serving as interim dean since January, when David W. Burcham left the post to become executive vice pr...