John McCain will have to face the music in court thanks to a suit brought by Jackson Browne over the politician's use of the s...

At a time when public anger at corporate America is erupting, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday took up a scandal from another era...

At a time when corporate regulation is facing critical scrutiny, a re-examination of special litigation committee decisions is...

Even lawyers with expertise handling electronically stored information in the United States may discover that they are novices...

As occurred in the wake of the Great Depression, strong words need to lead to significant reform of the financial system. ...

Negotiations between SAG and the studios have hit some fundamental roadblocks. ...

George Torres, a blue-collar Mexican immigrant who through hard work and street smarts founded the South Los Angeles-based Num...

The prominent tech executive's wrongful termination suit reads like a "B-grade Hollywood spy movie." ...

President Barack Obama and members of his administration have apparently cooled on legislation to tax executive bonuses, raisi...

Judge Clifford Klein is a rare hybrid in Los Angeles County's criminal justice system - a former prosecutor, an informed advoc...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Burr has won renown both as a judge and as a district attorney. ...

Since Phillip H. Rudolph became general counsel of Jack in the Box in 2007, the fast food chain has diversified its offerings,...

A 4th District ruling will prevent a flood of lemon law suits alleging inaccurate fuel efficiency estimates. ...

A State Bar Court judge recommended last week that Jose Velasquez, who was kicked off the Monterey County bench in 2007 for va...

Convinced that machines can handle much of what lawyers do, attorney Ben Longoria created Wizdocs.net, an online deal collabor...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has the authority to impose restrictions aimed at streamlining the patent application pro...

A recent high court decision helps maintain real accountability for police officers, teachers and other public employees accus...

Principles of rice farming, applied to the practice of law and to the management of firms, suggest some unexpected parallels. ...

A number of disruptive legal technologies are emerging that will directly challenge and sometimes even replace the traditional...

L.A. Superior Court Judge Alice Hill has confirmed she's been tapped to serve as counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Depart...

From Polanski to Pellicano to the NFL, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Chad S. Hummel has a courtroom dynamic that's hard to to...

A week after charging a San Francisco attorney and four others with plotting to steal the assets of a missing Palm Springs man...

Having the public confuse your name with that of a tennis or cricket team is one thing. But being confused with a disgraced fi...

Two vacant judgeships on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals are tempting ambitious lawyers and lower court jurists. The lik...

Well-known Straus Institute ADR mediator Lee Jay Berman plans to launch his own training center. ...

A San Mateo County Superior Court judge has awarded $45 million in damages and compensation to a 41-year-old woman who sued a ...

Gary A. Weiner, a veteran mediator and administrator for the state Court of Appeal and the Sonoma County Superior Court, will ...

Lawmakers moved ahead Thursday with unprecedented legislation responding to the political firestorm over the millions of dolla...

Employers must monitor their independent contractors' activities - without crossing the "control" line - to ensure that they a...

Both political parties should work together to assure our troops have court access and a right to basic procedural due process...