The litigation involved sophisticated data networks, inter-related contracts covering a reseller arrangement and a deal regist...

The 2008 elections created an entirely new landscape that is substantially more favorable to supporters of the Employee Free C...

An Orange County judge with a history of misconduct was again publicly admonished Thursday, weeks after the judge said he woul...

The recording industry has lost its ability to profitably find, promote, market and deliver the music the public wants, writes...

No arm-twister, retired Judge Peter Stone coaxes parties into settlements. ...

At oral argument Thursday in a closely watched case concerning attorney fee disputes, several state Supreme Court justices see...

Nixon Peabody considered a full-blown merger with Thelen earlier this year. Now it has settled for a large group of attorneys ...

History suggests that the battleground of many wrongful termination lawsuits will be whether or not an “at-will” employment re...

A once progressive reform, California's ballot initiative system now undermines party responsibility and the traditional forms...

Federal prosecutors have written to all 50 judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking them to consider recusing t...

With news that President-elect Barack Obama has assembled his transition team, speculation has turned to how his administratio...

What's going through attorneys' brains during mediation? ...

Though much attention in recent months has focused on the fate of Wall Street firms, California’s public companies are in fact...

A Santa Ana attorney has been elected president of the California Creditors Bar Association.

Robin Tyler, center, and her spouse, Diane Olson, left, hold hands as they listen to attorney Gloria Allred announce a new law...

In an unusual twist to an already unusual case, federal prosecutors Wednesday insisted on their right to try the MySpace cyber...

Supervising prosecutors may soon rest easy after several members of the U.S. Supreme Court expressed doubt Wednesday as to whe...

A Los Angeles couple is living “every parent’s nightmare,” a 9th Circuit Court of Appeal panel wrote Wednesday in a ruling tha...

Conservative members of the Supreme Court expressed doubt Wednesday as to whether immigration judges should be allowed to gran...

Training to become a temporary judge involves confronting one's biases, writes Nora Quinn. - Forum Column ...

Mediation is the ideal setting to let the parties simply tell their story in their own words, picking and choosing the facts a...

Two recent appellate decisions can guide family law attorneys who have clients seeking modification of child support due to ch...

Tuesday was a night of drama for the state's judicial races, including an upset in San Francisco and a hotly contested race in...

More than three years after losing his mayoral re-election bid, James K. Hahn is making a civic comeback - in a black robe. ...

Newly elected City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said that he intends to rebuild the office to focus on law, not politics. ...

O'Melveny & Myers gains a trio of patent litigtors from the dissolving Thelen.

A 25-year-old man held for two months at a Lancaster detention center because immigration officials doubted the validity of hi...

Partners at San Francisco-based Thelen completed the vote Tuesday to dissolve the 84-year-old firm, a firm spokesman confirmed...

Latham & Watkins associate Marc Wilson, center, with Election Protection, watches as election inspector Rose Jones, left, ...

California’s focus on sweepstakes as addressed by SB 1400 may mean that sweepstakes in general will face increased scrutiny, w...