A simple change in the law would greatly improve equality of opportunity for law students with learning disabilities who need ...

Nixon Peabody firmed up the tally of attorneys it was taking on from Thelen last week, putting the number at 80. The group bri...

Facing complaints that county mental health staff pushed thousands of emergency calls onto police because of a shortage of hos...

Law schools began establishing loan repayment programs in the 1980s to help their graduates afford to take low paying jobs. St...

Lynn W. Harwell of Lateral Link ...

Valerie Fontaine of Seltzer Fontaine Beckwith lists practice areas that are booming despite the bad economic situation. ...

Peter Ocko of Major, Lindsey & Africa offers tips for landing a job in a tough market. ...

Adil Haq was a first-year associate in Heller Ehrman’s San Francisco office. He looks back for signs that the venerable firm w...

A Contra Costa County deputy district attorney pleaded not guilty Friday morning to raping one of his colleagues. ...

Sacramento-based Stevens & O'Connell may be a small shop, but its top-notch reputation was enough to lure a leading litiga...

Find out who passed the July 2008 California Bar Exam in the current issue of The New Lawyer.

Three lawyers are among the newly elected directors and officers of Aids Project Los Angeles.

Judge Alan M. Ahart offers a sounding board to an increasing number of pro se petitioners appearing in his Central District co...

"All of a sudden in the span of four years virtually all our experienced judges are retiring," said Presiding Judge David Rose...

Whether he's put on the spot or coaxing along a ponderous prelim, Judge William H. Kronberger Jr. adapts smoothly to testing ...

Responding to the current foreclosure crisis as it spreads from single-family homeowners to displacing renters when landlords ...

Essential to any effective corporate governance strategy is timely, unfiltered disclosure and effective resolution of unethica...

The state Supreme Court has denied review of an appellate decision that had become a cause celebre for mediators concerned abo...

A judge Wednesday granted class status to a group of gays, lesbians and bisexuals alleging discrimination against matchmaking ...

Patience is the key to settling cases, Charles G. Bakaly Jr. has found. ...

The State Bar is taking a second look at two controversial measures to toughen the attorney discipline system, thanks to the s...

Employers must take quick, decisive action to protect trade secrets when an employee leaves to work with a competitor, writes ...

A division of Shell Oil Co. saw its hopes to "drill, baby, drill" dampened on Thursday after an appeals court nixed its govern...