In the face of trying economic times and a national decline in law school applications, Marc L. Miller, the newly appointed de...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed budget legislation Thursday but excised a portion of the budget legislation that would have required j...

Federal prosecutors charged a longtime Riverside deputy public defender with stealing nearly $130,000 in Social Security benef...

The Inner City Law Center, the sole provider of legal services in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, awarded its Humanitarian Awa...

When it comes to mediation, mid-value personal injury cases between are bearing the brunt of a beleaguered judicial system. By...

Hundreds of bench officers and attorneys came together June 25 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to rec...

Three of Los Angeles' top public attorneys representing federal, county and city governments convened June 13 at the Los Angel...

Kahn, Soares & Conway LLP, which has offices in Sacramento and Hanford, has carved an unusual niche assisting with new leg...

A panel for the Commission on Judicial Performance on Wednesday weighed whether they should publicly discipline Contra Costa C...

Part 2. Here are the Biglaw tools that you can expect to be applied with increasing frequency - and force - to reallocate mone...

Corporations forced to pay punitive damages are allowed to discount 100 percent of the money from their taxes. But that loopho...

Apple Inc. has lost a chance to add a smartphone made by bitter rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to a lawsuit alleging the S...

The firm added a new partner to its corporate and securities technology practice in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, official...

Rebecca J. Westerfield has mediated and arbitrated more than 2,500 cases since she joined JAMS in 1992. Yet her zest for the j...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP hosted a campaign celebration and awards reception marking the completion of a month...

A ploy by Littler Mendelson PC lawyers to squelch separate wage and hour class actions by arguing their cases directly to the ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has not finalized his controversial plan to build $24 billion water delivery tunnels under the Sacramento San...

Taking many by surprise, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday afternoon abruptly gave the go-ahead for same-sex m...

Law enforcement officers can seize a mailed package reeking of marijuana without obtaining a warrant, but a judge must sign of...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Orange Coast Title Co. Santa Ana ...

Despite the enormous veteran population, few lawyers have a profitable practice built around pursuing their disability claims....

Creative attorneys now use ADR to resolve even interim disputes and, in doing so, save their clients time, money and the angui...

The logical increase in marriage numbers following the high court's ruling Wednesday likely will be followed by an increase in...

A proposed change to judicial branch rules represents a small but noteworthy victory for the state's trial courts in the balan...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decisions Wednesday to dismiss the appeal to Proposition 8 and strike down the Defense of Marriage Ac...

A controversial bill to shut off state funds to charter cities that don't require contractors to pay wages close to union wage...

The free daily tabloid San Francisco Examiner has accused the San Francisco Chronicle of undervaluing its advertising prices i...

Cozen O'Connor is adding commercial litigator Matthew S. Steinberg from Greenberg Traurig LLP, according to two sources with k...

A federal judge granted Venable LLP's motion to dismiss a case Monday against the firm and one of its former partners involvin...