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...
The U.S. Supreme Court decided to intervene Friday over whether the names of those who supported a petition calling for a refe...
U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of Los Angeles got the boot from yet another case Friday as a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...
Charles "Tim" McCoy, presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, has demanded that the Judicial Council divert m...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
The former employees of San Francisco-based law firm Thelen voluntarily dismissed an $18 million class action lawsuit this wee...
Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker on Thursday asked 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski t...
A federal judge wrestled Thursday with the thorny question of whether a law firm could defend a former technology company exec...
A former Irvine attorney who squandered nearly all of a $2.7 million settlement he won for his class action plaintiffs pleaded...
The class action alleges East Los Angeles Regional Center terminated a common and vital therapy called DIR to close its budget...
The leading maker of a medical imaging drug linked to a rare and potentially fatal disease settled with a San Francisco man, e...
Mediator and arbitrator Deborah Rothman says "litigization" of the mediation process has resulted in less client satisfaction ...
Law firms may have spent the past year scrimping and saving, reducing head counts and cutting costs across the board, but days...
Justice Eileen Moore of the Court of Appeal compares Hollywood's movie industry with the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of rac...
Sue Burrell of the Youth Law Center concludes her piece on the need to increase and expand specialty training efforts for juve...
Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles Federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper Has Died
By STEPHEN LARSON
U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has died, two months before she was set to retire. She was 69. Cooper was undergoin...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday rebuffed an attorney's $871,000 fee request for winning an employment discrimination ...
An Orange County judge has dismissed charges of Penal Code violations against Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey S...
A Sacramento Superior Court judge invalidated a set of contracts Thursday that threatens to unravel a hard fought plan to divv...
Three innocent teens wrongly accused of killing the 12-year-old sister of one of the accused can sue two San Diego County citi...
Patricia Cain of Santa Clara University says a uniform rule for same-sex unions is needed as state action has created a legal ...
Letter to the Editor
Asbestos Claimants Are 'Truly Sick' and Deserve Day in Court
By Sharon Liangn
Gary Paul of Water, Kraus & Paul comments on asbestos litigation in California.
California could soon create a new type of corporate entity that includes social good in its mandate if a 10-attorney working ...
Lawyers say ADR Services neutral Robert Letteau has the quality that makes a mediator shine: He not only listens, but can pers...
Chris Holm of Milbank Tweed explains the benefits and risks for marking "patented" on products as well as the consequences of ...
Northern California-based Fenwick & West lawyers helped privately held Virgin America secure $68.4 million in debt financi...
Repercussions form a $2.2 billion software piracy lawsuit against the Chinese government hit close to home for the lawyers at ...
More than a dozen legal service organizations - many in rural areas of the state - have received a financial boost from the Ca...
Professor Donna M. Ryu of UC Hastings College of the Law will take the bench in the Oakland federal courthouse on March 1.
The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy at Stanford University is hosting a public workshop today to discuss issues involve...