Diane Klein of Golden Gate University School of Law says Middletown, Connecticut's board of education has no business governin...

Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of Law says recent empirical research suggests that closer attention be paid to white male...

Howard Coleman of Nossaman examines the consequences of climate change on property rights of coastal landowners. ...

When Juan Luis Alcivar enlisted in the U.S. Army, he did so out of loyalty to his adopted country. ...

When Barack Obama became president, some plaintiffs' attorneys believed he would turn back the tide of secrecy that had washed...

The Obama administration has walked a fine line in its cases before the Supreme Court, disappointing some supporters with its ...

Industry groups seeking to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change have mounted a lega...

Fourth of Five Parts. Former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, then-chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, wrote a bill ...

Even after 23 years in the Los Angeles Public Defender's office, lawyers said Superior Court Judge Ronald Rose is as impartial...

Superior Court Judge Josephine S. Tucker may be the first federal district judge nominated by President Obama from Orange Coun...

Eight years after lawyers and officers at a Silicon Valley company accidentally left a voice mail spilling the beans about ste...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spread some holiday cheer Tuesday, naming 20 new judges to trial courts around the state, and eleva...

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After a 19-year career as a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Ann Brick plans to ...

The state has ripped off hundreds of millions of dollars from the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, potentially pu...

Legal Aid groups across the state will soon feel the pinch of staggeringly low interest rates, which have decimated the pool o...

The economic downturn that hurt all attorneys turned out to be particularly damaging to intellectual property lawyers in 2009,...

Irvine-based Broadcom has agreed to pay $160.5 million to settle a stock-options backdating lawsuit brought by shareholders wh...

Daniel Garrie of Alternative Resolution Centers concludes his article on maintaining effective information management for e-di...

M.C. Sungaila of Horvitz & Levy concludes her article on women's rights and explains the State's role in preventing human ...

Meaghan Kent and Joshua Kaufman of Venable instruct on how to gather information for copyright infringement litigation. ...

Rochelle Spandorf of Davis Wright Tremaine wraps up her examination of California regulators' enforcement of franchise disclos...

Attorney Jeffrey Lowe comments on the claim that healthcare reform cannot be achieved without tort reform. ...

Some good news for a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals battered by lawyers' gripes about slow, rude judges came in December, w...

With the state's $21 billion budget shortfall expected to take the spotlight in 2010, the legislative agendas for law enforcem...

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

Third of five parts. Legal-aid programs are springing up around the country to assist homeless veterans like Michael Hurt, pic...

Family law specialist Mary Ann Grilli heads back to family court after two years as a probate judge.

Federal prosecutors have moved to disqualify Cooley Godward Kronish attorneys from the defense of former Brocade Communication...

San Francisco-based U.S. magistrate judge Edward M. Chen is one of six Obama administration nominees whose names were returned...