Before any assessment can be made of the legality of detainee treatment, the applicable law must be coherently identified, wri...

The Obama administration began a formal process this month to reconsider granting California a long-stalled waiver to enact st...

Recent graduates share their tales of triumph and terror in looking for a job during a down economy. Plus: Students rally arou...

UC Irvine School of Law is opening this fall, but will it be the top-tier institution Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is hoping for?

Attorneys at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker became the latest victims of the ...

With the federal government on the lookout for “shovel-ready” construction projects on which to spend cash in an attempt to st...

When the economy soured, seven recent graduates got creative with their job search.

Several U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned the breadth of a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision requiring Shell Oil...

In one of the first discrimination lawsuits brought under a 2004 state law amendment protecting transgender workers, a former ...

The restrictions on bank executives' pay embedded in the $787 billion stimulus package signed into law last week represent a s...

A federal judge said Monday he is concerned that Irell & Manella had a longstanding conflict when it started working on li...

Dennis Cyrus Jr. allegedly shot four people, killing three and seriously injuring another as part of a gang-related "killing s...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review two major cases closely watched by patent attorneys.

The 9th Circuit has found that the doctrine of "manifest disregard of the law" is still available as a potential ground for va...

The nation's largest mortgage market may feel little impact from President Obama's foreclosure bailout, columnist Martin Berg ...

Movie director John McTiernan on Monday won his long legal battle to reverse his guilty plea of lying to an FBI agent during t...

The increased scope of law firm downsizing has the potential to create substantial risks to ongoing cases, write Monty Argawal...

A state legislator unveiled a bill Monday to legalize and tax marijuana, as activists and lawmakers sought to draw federal att...

Thomas A. Saenz, counsel to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has been selected to head the U.S. Department of Justice's...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to intervene in a long-running religious dispute over a cross in the Mojave Desert that ...

Seyfarth Shaw managed to avoid a body blow from celebrity karate instructor Billy Blanks at least in the first match. A state ...

LAPD assistant inspector general Nicole Bershon examines the extent to which internal police investigations are accessible to ...

Pillsbury Winthrop and one of its clients, a biotech startup, have found a mutually beneficial arrangement: the startup is get...

For too long, there has been virtually no relationship between fair housing advocacy and the real property practice at the bar...

With the recent economic downturn, many law firms find themselves with more lawyers available to work on pro bono matters, wri...

A California law intended to keep violent video games out of the hands of minors is unconstitutional, the 9th U.S. Circuit Cou...

A Los Angeles immigration judge has tossed a Mexican immigrant's deportation case, ruling federal agents illegally obtained ke...

In June 2006, two Irell & Manella partners questioned Broadcom Corp.’s chief financial officer for half an hour in his off...

MGA Entertainment Inc.’s rights to the Bratz dolls may be in limbo, but that didn’t keep the Van Nuys-based company from tryin...

As library subscription costs soar, it behooves firms to reconsider their library expenditures, writes Cookie Lewis.