Restructuring our system so that financial institutions cannot pick their regulator is a plan that is sorely needed, writes La...

Mexico is undergoing a fundamental legal and political crisis, a fact that should be cause for close attention in our local le...

Google Inc.'s settlement with trade organizations representing authors and publishers opens the way for the Mountain View-base...

The management of Thelen recommended to its partners on Tuesday that the firm close its doors effective Dec. 1, marking the se...

As the corruption trial of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and his alleged mistress begins today, federal prosecutors...

Reed Smith adds a partner and associate from Morgan Lewis.

Jane Lueke Johnson has made the transition to the judiciary the same way she runs her races - one step at a time. ...

The face on the campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California is an attorney. ...

"That he found himself detained in another location was, at that point, a circumstance of his own creation," Justice Carol Cor...

If approved by a San Jose bankruptcy judge, Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin & Brill would settle a complaint for breach of f...

In the present business climate, keeping a vigilant eye on the financial well-being of clients who are members of an LLC is si...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will pay 15 California government and municipality agencies $160 million in a se...

A Superior Court judge Monday sentenced a Palm Springs transient to 15 years to life in prison for murdering former State Bar ...

The state's judicial watchdog agency Monday scolded a retired San Bernardino County judge for rude and demeaning comments to a...

Yolo County has improved its system for choosing racially representative grand juries after a prominent Hispanic man complaine...

Web Exclusive - A federal judge on Monday handed identical six-month prison sentences to the last two class action lawyers imp...

Employees who feel they've been discriminated against can try to resolve the problem internally without fear they'll lose thei...

Orange County supervisors are set to approve today a plan to build an expanded DNA lab that would be overseen jointly by the s...

U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer denied attorney Terry N. Christensen’s motions for a new wiretapping trial Monday, rejecti...

Pro bono service is the best way for lawyers to invest themselves in the type of charitable and volunteer service called for b...

A recent 9th Circuit decision highlights the importance of accurate drafting, not only for stock purchase agreements, but for ...

Seven former Heller Ehrman attorneys will be joining Goodwin Procter's real estate investment management and hospitality pract...

Dan Stormer of Hadsell, Stormer, Keeny, Richardson & Renick in Pasadena is lead plaintiffs’ counsel for Nigerian activists...

Parties strain to understand their adversary’s intentions in settlement negotiations, and often overlook the most important in...

A federal judge is set to decide today whether to grant attorney Terry N. Christensen a new trial based on what his attorneys...

Attorneys call it “The Big Myth.” Common misconceptions regarding who is allowed to vote in California after being convicted o...

Personal jurisdiction is of practical importance for casinos, because it answers the question of whether the casino can be sue...

Charles Patterson, a partner in the Los Angeles office of San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster, is one of about 20 U.S....

The policy-making body for the state's courts unanimously approved a list of 41 construction projects that will be funded by a...

The State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders is meant to aid judges, probation and parole officers in assessing...