With the enactment of Assembly Bill 159, the Administrative Office of the Courts in 2007 moved forward with plans to convert c...

When President-elect Barack Obama moves into the White House in January, it's likely that his administration's positions on ke...

With his goal of fostering positive self-images, Fred J. Fujioka breaks down barriers in juvenile drug court. ...

They had hung up their robes. Now six retired Riverside County judges are dusting off those robes, putting them back on and ...

For lawyers, knowledge of the law and ability to wield it on behalf of others is one of life’s great and rare privileges, writ...

The recording industry announced that after five years and tens of thousands of lawsuits filed in its anti-piracy battle, it w...

Onstage at a San Francisco music club may seem like an unlikely place to find a lawyer. ...

Daniel Ben-Zvi focuses on relieving litigants' anxieties brought on by their long-running disputes. ...

Defendants in frivolous FEHA actions are now left to wonder: is there any case in which they will be able to recover their fee...

Re-establishing the integrity of the Justice Department, a vipers’ nest of partisanship and shoddy lawyering for the past eigh...

Citing a potential loss of judicial benefits, Superior Court Judge Joseph W. Hilberman said Wednesday he will be leaving the b...

While the State Bar prohibits attorneys from putting prospective liability waivers in contracts with their clients, mediators,...

With aggressive lawyering and a broad view of executive authority, President George W. Bush expanded boundaries of presidentia...

New law firm to form in Los Angeles.

It's not exactly a clandestine Prohibition operation, but tucked away from view in a corner of the garage of Richard Swanson's...

Lateefah Simon caught the activism bug at a young age. Now she's about to become the first nonattorney to lead the Lawyers' Co...

California law firms generated less revenue growth in the first nine months of 2008 than those nationally and may be poised to...

Sandra M. Snyder has been reappointed a U.S. magistrate judge for the state's eastern district. ...

Thanks to some last-minute changes by the Bush administration, the Endangered Species Act is now threatened itself, writes Bri...

New laws in Japan aim to reduce the impact on the environment of electronics products with relatively short lifecycles and pot...

"Living the Dream," a Web-only television show by lawyers, for lawyers, aims to be a virtual watering hole, where young lawyer...

The pro bono legal services organization Bet Tzedek is calling itself an indirect victim of Bernie Madoff, whose alleged $50 b...

The California Supreme Court on Tuesday denied review of an appellate court decision that stripped Los Angeles County judges o...

As general counsel of a global company that makes medical tests, Arnold A. Pinkston says he gets great job satisfaction knowin...

Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy and Robert Gentry long ago quit his manager’s job with the electronics retailer, but the...

Drugmakers that push medicines for dangerous off-label uses to boost profits are off-limits to plaintiffs and civil suits, a f...

While other U.S. attorneys across the nation are tendering their resignations in anticipation of President-elect Barack Obama’...

When California's top lawyer Friday asked the state's high court to invalidate the voter-passed initiative banning same-sex ma...

A Santa Clara County jury on Monday found that Pfizer Inc. stole a non-profit biotech firm's trade secrets to conduct low-key ...

Albert H. Meyerhoff Jr., a Los Angeles plaintiffs lawyer who devoted his life to championing the underdog, has died. He was 61...