Federal officials are investigating who is behind a letter sent to Los Angeles area employers instructing them to check their ...

Administering defendants' rights to proceed in pro per is a complicated job that every bench officer and attorney handling cri...

If you're going to be engaged with litigation involving the major studios as part of your profession, you're going to get to k...

Many midsize and smaller firms are actually employing methods to deliver more than before, writes Vadim Alden. ...

The announcement last week that two dominant dispute resolution firms would halt consumer arbitrations has fueled Democratic l...

Amazon announced this week that it would purchase online shoe- and handbag-retailer Zappos for $865 million, plus $40 million ...

By using flawed rating models, credit rating agencies transformed pools of junk mortgages into securities supposedly worth far...

Federal nuclear safety officials don't have to guard against the threat of airborne terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants,...

Private and public defenders must unite to preserve our constitutional right to a qualified and funded defender, write Julie T...

The road is slowly being paved to allow bankrupt San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman to unload its obligations in Shanghai an...

After street rallies failed to stop Alameda County Superior Court from laying off 73 employees, about a dozen of the laid-off ...

The widow of a Jewish Defense League member who was killed in prison in 2005 lost her wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. ...

A San Bernardino County supervisor has called for an investigation of District Attorney Michael Ramos, saying he has "deep con...

A federal agency that oversees the shipping industry has given up its legal fight against the ports of Los Angeles and Long Be...

Ventura County Superior Court Commissioner Roger Lund's life voyage has taken him to Osaka, Japan on several occasions, includ...

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman has shown that she can handle the heat, as she presided over a high-...

Law firms’ culture of unaccountability distinguishes law firms from real business, writes Edwin B. Reeser. ...

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...

Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading "Handle Pro Pers Just Like a Pro" by Jacqueline A. Connor and answering the questions ...

Thurgood Marshall was an unseen presence Thursday as U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan chatted with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski...

Indicted Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey A. Silberman pleaded not guilty Thursday to bribery charges in an Oran...

Attorneys representing "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis in his tax evasion case are asking the 9th Circuit to dismiss his...

Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions may bolster defendants' efforts to establish the insufficiency of boilerplate allegati...

As the state high court recognized in 'Munson v. Del Taco,' disability-rights plaintiffs and businesses want to peacefully co-...

Community mediation is a non-zero-sum, value-based, rights-seeking, joint session transformative dispute resolution process, w...

Chris R. Conway draws on skills he developed dousing hot tempers on the Superior Court to coax settlements as a neutral at Jud...

In a novel legal maneuver, the SEC is using Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to claw back money from a company chief exec...

A federal court-appointed temporary receiver described an Anaheim loan modification company being sued for fraud as being like...

Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama has drawn on no less than a dozen prominent California attorneys to fill the rank...

A little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court decision made last month is already transforming the debate over how much control courts h...