The legal establishment's attempts to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to shore up the attorney-client privilege in two cases t...

Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte's expansive career covers everything from public interest to patents.

The South Asian Bar Association of Southern California's Public Interest Foundation hosted their annual banquet on Thursday ev...

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

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

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The legal talent who jump from firm to firm may grab the headlines. But often the man behind the moves in California is San Di...

Despite the new presidential administration's calls for more prosecutions of financial fraudsters and crooked politicians, som...

A Los Angeles attorney and three paralegals have been arrested in connection with a large fraud ring that allegedly faked auto...

The House of Representatives unanimously impeached a federal judge Thursday for allegedly taking bribes, lying to investigator...

Legal woes continue to pile up for David Bergstein, the financier whose film production and distribution entities are currentl...

Former KB Home Chairman Bruce E. Karatz was a greedy executive who stole $6 million from shareholders and hired a private dete...

After reaching a bipartisan compromise, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation Thursday to close the disparity in s...

The Pledge of Allegiance as recited daily by California schoolchildren is constitutional, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

With no law degree, Elisabeth Seaman gets to the heart of a dispute by considering emotions instead of wrangling over legal de...

Ross Hyslop and Gary Brucker Jr. of McKenna Long & Aldridge say recent class actions are troubling because they arise from...

Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo says Chavez v. City of Los Angeles finally gives employers leverage in negotiating sett...

Kenneth Gibbs of JAMS introduces a new and better way to resolve construction disputes that avoids expensive and protracted li...

Sunil Kulkarni and Rachel Krevans of Morrison & Foerster discuss the advantages of a false marking suit and how to protect...

Kathleen Sullivan, the high-profile head of business litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges' national appe...

With fraud investigations of the health care industry growing from Los Angeles to New York, federal prosecutors are starting t...

Patrick Coughlin's departure from top-flight plaintiff securities firm Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins was preceded...

A San Francisco federal judge postponed hearing a defense mistrial motion in the criminal stock options backdating retrial of ...

The University of California must pay more than $38 million for raising fees after they enrolled, despite promising not to. ...

Attorney Brett Maxfield has decided not to fight his disqualification from the June 8 ballot, which had pitted him against sit...

After 15 years of planning, San Diego's new $380 million, 467,000-square-foot, 16-story courthouse annex is underway and expec...

Non-violent offenders with serious mental illness now are eligible for Behavioral Health Court services that will include hous...

Judges from the three divisions of the federal court for the Central District and Judge Alex Kozinski, chief of the 9th U.S. C...

State Bar President Howard B. Miller, center, a partner with Girardi & Keese, speaks with attendees at California Lawyer m...

Chief Judge Irma E. Gonzalez demands professionalism, but keeps cases moving.