David Cohen went to law school after nine years bouncing around minor league baseball as an athletic trainer. Cohen, now the t...

It seemed like big law firms were too big to fail. Over two decades of explosive growth, top law firms gobbled up regional sho...

The recession has already forced at least one firm to resort to the cost-cutting equivalent of cannibalism. ...

The 9th Circuit Friday ruled that a lawsuit claiming that big oil companies worked together to keep California gas prices high...

The president-elect of El Salvador's fledgling democracy must focus his government's resources on reforming the electoral syst...

The lead plaintiffs' lawyer in a civil rights lawsuit against the estate of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos denies c...

Beth S. Brinkmann, the Washington, D.C.-based chair of Morrison & Foerster's appellate group, announced last week she'll s...

Congress violated the First Amendment rights of people who used artistic works that had fallen into the public domain by passi...

"Pinch me. That would be the greatest job," Katie Pothier said when she first learned baseball teams hired in-house lawyers. I...

Alan T. Schroeder Jr., who at times represented himself during a 15-year-long divorce case, won a significant decision that co...

San Diego Commissioner Peter S. Doft makes music, climbs mountains, hikes the Grand Canyon and tries to make the roads safe fo...

Survivors of law firm layoffs still may not be safe. Many top law firms, realizing their first round of pink slips did not go...

Though there are several large securities fraud suits pending in California, just a few investors are aiming to test whether t...

It is easy to demonize CEOs who take bailout money and then pay employee bonuses - but to do so ignores wage and hour laws. ...

Neil L. Shapiro was an early convert to mediation when he saw it work in one of his cases 20 years ago. Now, he works as a med...

A new Senate bill proposes to impose mandatory sanctions for lawyers and litigants found to have violated Rule 11 of the Feder...

Heller Ehrman's creditors may seek to recover more than $50 million paid out to the firm's banks sooner rather than later unde...

There are more concise treatises that Gary Born's book "International Commerical Arbitration." But this one covers virtually e...

Someone has finally decided to take time out to stop and think before barreling ahead with our current, failed approaches to c...

The Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation Thursday to overhaul U.S. patent laws, although opposition from key Republic...

This year's State Bar Board of Governors race is turning out to be a crowded affair. Eighteen candidates are in the running fo...

When Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis looks out her office window in September, she won't be greete...

A federal judge in Santa Ana issued a blistering condemnation of three Irell & Manella partners' work on the Broadcom stoc...

The attorney for embattled Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien defended his client from charges of misconduct...

Growing up in a rural, farming community, Judge David R. Worley finds comfort in the bucolic surroundings of the Ventura Count...

A shareholder lawsuit filed Wednesday against American International Group Inc. seeks the return of nearly $400 million in bon...

It may be possible for employers to enforce non-competition forfeiture provisions in California by including them in retiremen...

Hexavalent chromium, the controversial chemical compound made famous by the film "Erin Brockovich," is once again finding itse...

In one of the term's most closely watched employment cases, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that unions can require mem...

The Obama administration should use every weapon in its arsenal - including existing laws - to fight climate change. ...