WASHINGTON - Yahoo Inc. may have settled litigation alleging that the Internet company provided the Chinese government with pr...
Heather L. Rosing plans to push professionalism and civility when she takes the helm of the San Diego County Bar Association o...
The August 2006 publication of "The Path of Constitutional Law," by Charles Kelso and his son, appears to be the first compreh...
Law Practice
ACLU Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Riverside Ballot Case
By Martin Bergn
In a case closely watched by California cities, the American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court to ...
Focus Column - By Melody Mosley and Craig Simon - Victims of the recent California wildfires can take heart in a number of sta...
Employment Column - By Mandana Massoumi and Sarah Maier - The recent explosion in employment law suits makes this survey of re...
Verdicts
Defect-Case Mediator Looks for 'Global Picture'
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
Mediator Ross R. Hart has the difficult task of keeping his head when dealing with 40 parties - or more - in construction-defe...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Injustice of Mandatory Minimums Has No Expiration Date
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Julie Stewart and Molly Gill - The U.S. Sentencing Commission's decision to decrease disparities between cra...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New President Helps Fill Void for Asian-American Lawyers
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
Helen B. Kim, a securities and commercial litigation partner in Baker Hostetler's Los Angeles office, has become the new presi...
After a long lull in Chapter 11 work amid the mergers and acquisitions boom of the last several years, law firms are starting ...
Forum Column - By Leslie Harris and Jim Dempsey - A recent Rio de Janeiro conference on governmental control of the Internet r...
A company that raises money for the Democratic National Committee and other liberal political groups has acknowledged that it ...
Labor/Employment
Supreme Court Will Decide Legality of California Union Law
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide the legality of a California law that forbids privat...
Education
Learning Law Online: A Nontraditional Route
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
For students like Robert Uyeda, online law schools are sometimes the best option. These schools offer the flexibility that man...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two representatives of the California Judges Association will be part of an advisory group responsible for set...
Forum Column - By Mary Dollarhide - California employers who provide sexual-harassment training only to supervisors are in for...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles judge who oversaw the clergy abuse litigation against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Ange...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Dues Bills Urge Donations for Legal Aid for the Poor
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers may have noticed something different in the State Bar fee statements that have been arriving in their ...
Today marks the five-year anniversary of the initial raid on private investigator Anthony Pellicano's offices, which produced ...
WASHINGTON - Setting up the biggest gun-rights case in nearly 70 years, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide the co...
Focus Column - By Greg May - A new 9th Circuit ruling creates a confusing standard for when Confrontation Clause challenges ca...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Minority Participation Must Begin Before Law School
By Troy Senikn
Diversity Column - By Ann I. Park - The legal profession is the least-diverse employment field in the country. Remedying this ...
Forum Column - By John A. Hall - The attorneys jailed during Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff's crackdown are the collea...
SANTA ANA - Occidental College last year trumpeted the selection of Susan Westerberg Prager, the former UCLA law dean, as its ...
Stanford law students Andrew Bruck and Andrew Canter tell new lawyers what’s really going on behind the guilded doors of big l...
Big law firms turn to city attorneys and district attorneys for help teaching litigation associates how to try a case
For those of you who didn't pass the bar, there's always next time. Here experts have written sample answers to the six practi...
Number of people who took the July 2007 exam8,151
In my experience, relatively few attorneys are dishonest or intentionally engage in misconduct warranting discipline.
