Practitioner Dana Cephas says both plaintiffs and defendants should applaud, not criticize, the recent decision on attorney wo...
With the filing window to open April 1, C. Matthew Schulz, Paul Virtue and David Serwer of Baker & McKenzie advise employe...
The legal battle between a union representing Los Angeles County's prosecutors and District Attorney Steve Cooley appears to b...
Negative reviews on the popular business-review Web site Yelp.com have given way to class action lawsuits, the most recent in ...
A case the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up could end up influencing the political debate over a possible vacancy on the court....
Intellectual Property
IP Law Star Loses Second Microsoft Patent Case
By Craig Anderson
Patent litigation star Matthew Powers is on a losing streak for major client Microsoft Corp. A jury in Tyler, Texas awarded Vi...
A man who fell under a bus will receive $7.25 million from the Orange County Transportation Authority in a settlement reached ...
Trusts and estates lawyer Ellen Kahn leads Sideman & Bancroft as one of the largest female-owned law firms in the nation. ...
The father of Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old woman who went missing after she was released from the Malibu sheriff's statio...
A San Francisco federal judge denied a request by environmentalists and organic farming interests Tuesday to immediately halt ...
In an effort to improve access to court information, the U.S. Judicial Conference voted Tuesday to make digital audio recordin...
Legal consultant Ida Abbott launched a California-based roundtable earlier this year for female law firm leaders."They didn't ...
While more and more minorities are elevated to the bench, they join a roster that is still predominantly white. ...
Recent studies and anecdotal evidence suggest many firms have cut back on diversity-focused recruiting, special events and inv...
Bankruptcy cases in the Central District of California skyrocketed 71 percent in fiscal 2009, trumping the 34.5 percent surge ...
A 67-year-old probate lawyer who allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients over the past decade faces ...
McGuireWoods is appealing U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real's recent decision barring it from collecting $12 million in attor...
The King of Pop will reign over the charts for years despite his untimely death last June. At least, that's the expectation be...
A federal judge on Tuesday seemed inclined to let stand a magistrate judge's order that groups who opposed Proposition 8 turn ...
While the legal diversity landscape has improved, minority representation in the partner ranks has a long way to go, writes Sa...
An Orange County lawyer must stand trial on six felony counts of defrauding homeowners seeking mortgage modifications and two ...
Lawrence Hinkle II, President of the John M. Langston Bar Association, says our youth is the key to resolving the legal profes...
In her new book, Giovanna Pang Garcia interviews 100 of the most successful and influential Chinese women in America to learn ...
Bingham McCutchen may have found the wedge it needed to establish a strong corporate transactional practice in Northern Califo...
Layoffs at Los Angeles Superior Court delivered a crushing blow to clerical assistants and court services assistants, who toge...
Administrative/Regulatory
Epidemic Of Fraud Could Drain Fund For Lawyer Victims
By Amy Yarbroughn
A State Bar fund that reimburses clients victimized by their attorneys could soon be out of money, after an avalanche of claim...
Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School writes about the U.S.' response to a housing development dispute in Jerusalem. ...
To embrace the true spirit of diversity is to accept individuals who fall outside of community set standards, writes Kristina ...
Judge Robert Twiss of Sacramento County Superior Court does not make it easy for prospective jurors to avoid their civic oblig...