In the last decade, pro bono work has picked up where legal aid, strapped for cash and bound by federal restrictions, has had ...

It took serious legal muscle to force the United States Navy to consider the plight of the whale.

As the immigration debate heats up, lawyers in Texas and California remove hurdles for legal residents.

The Adopt-an-Angel program allows law firms to form long-term partnerships with battered-women's shelters.

Lawyers help disciplined students stand up for their rights in Contra Costa schools.

Potential conflicts don't always stand in the way of environmental justice.

Los Angeles lawyers worked around the clock after Hungarian Holocaust survivors got an unexpected chance for reparations.

Volunteer attorneys create opportunities for those who have spent time in jail or prison.

One partner's dedication helped fight slum conditions and preserve affordable housing for some Los Angeles families.

Bankruptcy reform made a debtor assistance program tougher for lawyers but critical for the poor.

In the face of gentrification, this local firm is fighting to protect the area's most vulnerable residents from homelessness.

LOS ANGELES - Before Emma Leheny began to defend hourly workers, she was one herself, making $8 an hour as a breakfast line co...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Norman A. Dupont - Many commentators have described the 2006 term of the U.S. Supreme Court as the first ful...

A Los Angeles lawyer who wants his former employer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, to reimburse him for attorney fees spent defe...

FORUM COLUMN - By Roger Haydock - The Nov. 1 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Journal reprinted a very controversial article wri...

SAN BERNARDINO - Richard R. Beswick, a "super aggressive" San Bernardino attorney whose clients included key figures in govern...

The state's judicial watchdog agency publicly admonished a controversial Orange County judge Wednesday for misconduct that inc...

SANTA ANA - Lawyer jokes notwithstanding, California doesn't have enough lawyers, at least according to calculations by the Un...

A boy who got hurt trying to retrieve his kite from tangled power lines can't sue the electric company, but that doesn't mean ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether narrowly written noncompete agreem...

WASHINGTON - In its first foray into the issue of global warming, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared ideologically divided Wednes...

LOS ANGELES - With the Democratic Party poised to take control of Congress, tort reformers were expected to fade into the back...

FORUM COLUMN - By Lauren E. Willis -Have a complaint against your mortgage company?

A California lawyer steps in to represent condemned inmates.

LOS ANGELES - In the fall of 2002, Arthur Andersen, the once-prominent accounting firm was spiraling toward its demise, a proc...

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Can the police engage in a warrantless search of a person's laptop just because the indi...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert S. Nelson - Just in time for the holidays, a recent decision by a California appellate court may dram...

LOS ANGELES - Bingham McCutchen bolstered its banking and finance practice by adding a pair of transactional attorneys to its ...

LOS ANGELES - Davis Wright Tremaine is set to acquire Washington, D.C.-based Cole, Raywid & Braverman, a communications an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. has successfully fended off a patent infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas potenti...