CHICAGO - The Institute of Real Estate Management held an installation for its 2008 officers, which included Regina Mullins as...
Gary Spratling sleeps only four hours a night. But he may have only himself to blame for that. As the former deputy assista...
In the latest evidence of client unrest over soaring law firm billing rates, retail giant Wal-Mart has declared a moratorium a...
Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has tapped real estate litigator H. David Nahai to be the n...
Industry Watch - By Robert Iafolla - The former head of the Santa Ana U.S. attorney's office will join Snell & Wilmer as a...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Environmental lawyer Fernando Villa has jumped from Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles office ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Repairing the Pipeline: What's Causing the Shortage of Black Male Lawyers?
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Olivier F. Theard and Erica C. Smith - Studies show that black men are woefully underrepresented in the lega...
Forum Column - By Frederick K. Lowell - California's recent move toward more-restrictive campaign finance laws promises to mak...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - In a bid to answer the continuing rise in wage-and-hour class actions in California, Chic...
The Court of Appeal unanimously upheld a lower court's ruling Friday finding the University of California in breach of contrac...
Big Oil was the big winner last week when the California Supreme Court abruptly dismissed one of the oldest cases on its docke...
WASHINGTON - As constitutional debates go, few stir more passions than this one: Does the Second Amendment give private indivi...
On the Move
Attorneys who have appeared before Judge Julia Craig Kelety say she never rushes to weigh in on complicated issues, and disp...
After making the difficult transition to being a judge with a jam-packed daily calendar, William J. Monahan has done his hom...
The trickle of settlements in backdating class-action and derivative complaints is expected to become a steady stream in the c...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday ended a four-year battle to bring a sexual-abuse lawsuit against the Los Angeles Poli...
Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Reaching a settlement before wage-and-hour litigation may prove to be even more be...
Web Exclusive - In a rare dismissal, the California Supreme Court announced that it must drop an appeal in a toxic-tort case b...
Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The California Coastal Commission, one of the state's most powerful and independent agen...
Focus Column - By Robert A. Philipson - An erroneous verdict in a lawsuit against Ford may make it nearly impossible for manuf...
As a competitive roper who took up the sport in his 50s, Benjamin Card is living the life of a Renaissance cowboy. And he's go...
A Southern California racetrack, Porsche and a handful of defendants have settled for $4.5 million a lawsuit that hinged on th...
Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona has vowed he will not resign but will stay in office to fight the corruption charges brought...
LOS ANGELES - Two years ago, in an uncomfortable moment for Los Angeles federal prosecutors, a judge took the rare step of rej...
WASHINGTON - Democratic senators are pushing for the White House to fill U.S. attorney vacancies across the country, including...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wyndham Worldwide is renovating the 224-room Hotel Canterbury, which closed in 2005, into a 115-room timeshare...
Referee Shep A. Zebberman strives to help the juvenile defendants and the custodians who appear in his courtroom understan...
For the first time in its history, China will launch an independent mediation program, similar to the model used in the United...