Supervisor of LA criminal court requires formalities but offers personal advice and sports talk

Santa Clara County Judge Deborah Ryan is known for her brisk yet compassionate approach.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case which questions whether employees of companies like Amazon must be paid ...

Civil Code Section 1717 applies to any "action on a contract" if the contract provides for an award of attorney fees. By Gary ...

Legal Momentum, a women's legal defense and education fund, recently bestowed its 2014 Women of Achievement award to a group o...

Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP was founded in 1994 with 16 lawyers in Los Angeles. The firm now boasts five ...

A Detroit judge kicked off the bench for taking bribes lost his second attempt to regain the right to practice in California. ...

Loyola Law School's eighth annual Fidler Institute on Criminal Justice brought in Los Angeles legal heavyweights to discuss cr...

Martin R. Glick recently received the John Minor Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism Award from the American Bar Associa...

Candidates' positions on the state's policy that shifted thousands of inmates to county jails took top billing at a debate bet...

The Quinn Emanuel spinoff Willenken Wilson Loh & Delgado LLP, which handles complex business litigation, relies on an expe...

Some of the latest innovations in robot technology were on display April 9 at a "robot block party" hosted by Wilmer Cutler Pi...

Scott Bloch should be suspended from practice in California for 30 days and serve two years of probation based on his misdemea...

Residents of a rundown Hollywood apartment complex recently gained a nearly $4 million settlement with landlords in a case law...

The San Diego County Bar Association held its annual judicial reception on the Fountain Terrace at the Westgate Hotel. Over 20...

While companies prize legal counsel with intimate knowledge of their businesses, some still choose to engage a new firm when r...

Numerous parts of the federal government are gearing up to take action on cyber and data security, but little concrete has mat...

Efforts to introduce mental health treatment into California's criminal justice system are proceeding fitfully, with zeal and ...

Tesla is frequently in the news of late - not about celebrity CEO Elon Musk or for stellar reviews of its luxury, zero-emissio...

Randall W. Wulff is well aware of his nickname, the Velvet Hammer. "I've read that," he said. "It's mildly embarrassing, but i...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the nation's most powerful lobbying groups, will soon be looking to throw its weight behi...

General Counsel and corporate secretary at Turn Inc. Redwood City ...

Increased corporate accountability benefits us all. America is a nation founded on ideals of hard work and meritocracy. By Kat...

In March, the U.S. government secured its first guilty plea from two individuals accused of distributing copyrighted mobile ap...

When basically everything can be downloaded off the Internet and manufactured using 3D printers, it means goods that infringe ...

A new decision holds that if parties have not made a written agreement to arbitrate, a forum selection clause will operate as ...

The federal government must look at how its long-term water delivery contracts could harm fish struggling to survive in the Sa...

A federal judge granted class certification to 200 employees of Chinese Daily News Inc. in a lawsuit in which the workers sued...