The Obama presidency promises change, and those changes are certain to impact the market for legal services, writes Valerie Fo...

With the economic crisis putting serious pressure on the health care industry, lawyers are finding that their health care clie...

A lawyer is scheduled to turn himself into custody today on charges he was in-house counsel for an elaborate real estate Ponzi...

In a distressed economy, elderly homeowners become particularly vulnerable to mortgage schemes that don't represent their best...

A Miami immigration judge who made headlines after refusing to hear an immigrant family's case has abruptly resigned, making h...

Hours after President Barack Obama signed an executive order last week calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention...

Never has there been a better time to create an effective communications strategy as in an environment of distressed mergers a...

As review Web sites like Yelp gain in popularity, litigation over their content will only increase, writes Karl Kronenberger. ...

Having a working knowledge of the different types and scope of privileges is extremely valuable, writes Laurie L. Levenson. - ...

Despite making a clean break with his predecessor on several key aspects of the war on terror, President Barack Obama picked u...

The State Bar will hold its annual meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt as planned, despite pressures to honor a boycott spur...

New York Gov.David A. Paterson has appointed a 1991 UCLA School of Law graduate to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillar...

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

The law of the sea might sound like a Herman Melville novel, but for John E. Noyes, it's the glue that holds the global commun...

President Barack Obama announced Thursday the selection of San Francisco-based litigator Tony West to head up the Justice Depa...

Bush-era policies policies conflicted with core principles of international law on state equality and the nonuse of force, Mar...

After taking heat from lawmakers and bar associations claiming his appointments skewed too heavily toward white males, Gov. Ar...

A recent case established that employers aren't required to formally announce the beginning of the interactive process in orde...

The Long Beach Bar Association is set to swear in Maria M. Rohaidy tonight as its new president, making her the first Hispanic...

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and a former partner, Thomas Kohler, must face a fraud claim stemming from allegations by an elect...

Together, the state high court and the U.S. Supreme Court have issues a jumbled mess of rulings regarding the Federal Cigarett...

San Diego welder Elbert Thomas had to cut his work schedule when he developed neurological problems that restricted his abilit...

Democratic lawmakers said Thursday that empowering bankruptcy judges to rework troubled home loans was the only way to pull th...

"Slavery by Another Name" takes readers through the tangled web of Southern capitalism and the vicious treatment of African Am...

Mediator R. Elaine Leitner lets parties air their differences to find the roots of their disputes. ...

In 1989, Abraham Nager fathered a child for his lawyer, Renee E. Wilson. Nearly 20 years later, their unusual arrangement cou...

Univision Communications Inc., the largest Spanish language network in the U.S., settled a festering royalties dispute Thursda...

McDermott Will & Emery has moved into new 25,000-square-FOOT digs in new San Diego that can house 40 attorneys.

A spate of "produce the note" suits seek to enjoin the foreclosure process by alleging that the lender didn't have possession ...

Long-standing Beverly Hills business law firm Ervin, Cohen & Jessup has just taken on the largest acquisition of lawyers i...