A man accused of violating a new law aimed at curbing talent service scams pleaded no contest Thursday to two criminal counts ...

Time Warner Cable and media conglomerate Viacom each fired off a lawsuit against the other in New York federal court on Thursd...

The federal court system can operate at full capacity for 10 working days if Congress does not prevent a shutdown of the feder...

A majority of judges statewide are dissatisfied with judicial branch, according to the results of a California Judges Associat...

Lawyers will play an influential role in California's redistricting process as they help a citizen's committee redraw legislat...

Residents frequently receive an advantage over non-residents when bidding for government contracts. By Cynthia J. Larsen of Or...

Best practices for how to prepare for a mediation. By Daniel Ben-Zvi of ADR Services Inc. ...

In a ruling that could increase foreign plaintiffs' access to California courts, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thur...

Briefs that are pared down to the bare essentials are the most persuasive. By Richard C. Neal and Barbara A. Reeves of JAMS. ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the UC Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to the 9th U.S. Circu...

The state's budget woes have generated a level of anxiety that threatens to put the skids on otherwise promising pursuits, inc...

Four former Orrick litigators say they plan to build the Philadelphia firm's Southern California presence. ...

So-called "green patents" supply the profit motive for the development of green technologies. By Eric L. Lane of Luce, Forward...

The first time out, David B. Van Etten grew his firm to 50 lawyers, but a crushing overhead led to its demise. This time, part...

Omitting achievements of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans from textbooks amounts to viewpoint discrimination. ...

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP lost $10 million in 2010, according to documents that came to light in litigation b...

Many trucking industry defense lawyers have instituted a 24-hour on-call emergency system to respond to their clients' acciden...

Attorneys general from all 50 states and federal agencies have been negotiating with more than a dozen major mortgage lenders ...

In his first interview since announcing his retirement, Former Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who is starting...

M. Gerald Schwartzback writes in response to "One Loss Too Many." ...

Institutional lenders and handlers of foreclosures and loan modifications should coordinate their activities so no one lands i...

While the construction industry struggled for business, the appellate courts were hard at work. By Robert A. Weissman. ...

Doctors and lawyers form a truce to improve patient outcomes. By Courtney A. Powers of the Daughters of Charity Health System....

Estimating future lost profits is no easy task. By Mark J. Phillips of Goldfarb, Sturman & Averbach and Michael J. Phillip...

The state Supreme Court seemed highly skeptical Wednesday of a Reed Smith attorney who represented a controversial Beverly Hil...

Attorneys for Apple Inc. persuaded a Texas judge to overturn a jury's $625.5 million verdict against the company, persuading h...

A Princeton-educated scientist who rose to become a corporate titan only to be sent to prison for securities fraud, is trying ...

The wife of a former Deloitte Tax LLP partner, who pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commissi...

Wednesday's announcement establishes the litigation boutique as Kelley Drye & Warren LLP's Los Angeles office under the ba...

A California Highway Patrol officer who fired 12 bullets that fatally injured a woman following a high-speed chase is entitled...