Web Exclusive - A bill that would have increased funding for community mediation programs by $5 million has fallen victim to t...

Joshua Tree lawyer Kassie Siegel has emerged as the face of the successful effort to get the polar bear listed as a threatened...

Entertainment industry officials Monday hailed the passage of a scaled-down bill that will add an intellectual property enforc...

Protecting political speech is crucial to our democracy, even when such speech occurs inside of a schoolyard, writes Taylor An...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have provided interpreters for high-priority civil cases in Los Angele...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman swooped up Thelen's China practice, taking 20 attorneys from the San Francisco-based firm, Pil...

Sacramento Judge Peter J. McBrien was recently the subject of a recall effort led by angry litigants. Now, he's in trouble wit...

With opening statements barely a week away, famed Los Angeles litigator Thomas J. Nolan of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &...

In rapid succession, with two recent decisions, the California Supreme Court has reshaped the legal landscape for arbitrations...

Despite the successful passage of a bond measure to fix California aging courthouses, Chief Justice Ronald M. George predicts ...

Web Exclusive - The Conference of Delegates voted on a wide variety of issues at this year's State Bar meeting; the subjects o...

Facebook ended months of speculation about who would lead its legal team by hiring a Kirkland & Ellis partner in Washingto...

The fallout from the firing of several U.S. attorneys almost two years ago is in no danger of dissipating after the Justice De...

“It’s really a big game of catch up for lawyers that haven’t been following the green building trend,” said Donald Simon, an e...

U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said he will personally prosecute the Missouri woman accused of creating a fictitious MySpace ...

Even as negotiations over the proposed $700 billion bailout package consumed much of the oxygen on Capitol Hill Friday, the Se...

An uptick in patent applications for garments and a spate of lawsuits over fabric copyrights are a sign that serving these gar...

In what he described as one of the most serious cases of elder fraud in the state’s history, a Superior Court judge Friday sen...

Gang injunctions are a valuable tool used by law enforcement in combating criminal street gangs, writes Max B. Shiner.

Heller Ehrman's "wind-down" began Friday as partners cast electronic votes on the policy committee's proposal for how the firm...

A federal appellate panel has tossed six of 14 counts on which former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Ivanovich Lazarenko was c...

Maybe the many thousands who have voluntarily chosen arbitration over three millennia knew something our legislators don’t, wr...

A long-awaited government report released this month found substantial disparities exist in the rate at which immigration judg...

Whatever the Justice Department decides about a possible Google-Yahoo deal, its analysis should be revealed so that advertiser...

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

ADA Suits Should Have Measures Forcing Settlement Attempts

When Jeffrey L. Bleich became president of the State Bar a year ago, he offered no special program to instigate or goal to ach...

If you're a criminal defense lawyer thinking of attacking a jury instruction on reasonable doubt, you might want to think twice.

A 27-year veteran of the public defender's office died when he jumped in front of a Metrolink train as it left the Sylmar/San ...

A Superior Court judge has ordered an insurance company to pay a Burbank sound studio $14.1 million after rejecting the insure...