Seeing as judicial elections are likely here to stay, debate should focus on reforming the election system, not eliminating it...

A veteran state Supreme Court staff lawyer whose father was a prominent Los Angeles trial judge will be the new principal atto...

Workers' compensation law firm Reyes & Barsoum LLP accused its opposing counsel of hacking a cloud-based site to view atto...

Los Angeles County Commissioner Robert Palazzolo tackles the emotional issues that accompany family law.

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Judge Daniel Nishigaya leavens his courtroom's formal air with an acute sense of compassion.

Los Angeles County Superior Court judges who exclusively handle complex litigation are presiding over more wage and hour class...

The thing that many partners fear most is being held personally liable for something they did not do and knew nothing about. B...

Every teenage girl on the East Coast in the 1960s remembers the name Kitty Genovese, who was murdered as her neighbors watched...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case on the question whether Congress can confer on uninjured person...

A new ethics opinion from the State Bar says client confidences are more than privileged communication, and lawyers must keep ...

The California State Bar Court's Review Department has denied an appeal from an attorney facing disbarment in a case involving...

The 9th Circuit considered arguments about whether a federal regulation lets Denny's restaurant instruct workers to buy shoes ...

The influential Senate Judiciary Committee pushed a comprehensive patent litigation reform bill to the full Senate Thursday in...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Thursday the nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd to become an Article II...

This month, many large retail employers in San Francisco will need to prepare, not only for the summer fog that's sure to roll...

Cera LLP's reputation - built on hard work, flexibility, legal savvy and political gumption - is a frequent source of work for...

Judge Steven R. Denton came to the law circuitously. But he's embraced it so wholly that he continues to live and breathe the ...

Brian Hauck, the husband of state Supreme Court Justice Leondra R. Kruger, is re-joining Jenner & Block LLP after a six-ye...

In a unanimous reversal of a Siskiyou County Superior Court ruling, the appellate court held that state law clearly gives the ...

California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and others have sued state and federal water managers in federal district court cl...

Jennifer Mnookin was named dean Thursday, taking the leadership position at a time when legal educators are grappling with a s...

Racial bias in jury selection has gotten heightened scrutiny at the state Supreme Court since Justice Goodwin H. Liu called ou...

Several lawyers suspended recently by the state Supreme Court got into trouble in part due to emotional, physical or substance...

The state Supreme Court adapts common law doctrines like assumption of risk and respondeat superior to today's business realit...

Coupang , South Korea's largest online retailer, secured a $1 billion investment from Japanese telecom behemoth Softbank Corp....

In the first of what's widely expected to be a bevy of legal action over the Santa Barbara oil spill, Keller Rohrback LLP and ...

Corporate executives often delegate cybersecurity matters to lower management. In the age of high-profile breaches, however, t...

The Federal Circuit has essentially restored a 2008 holding about when a defendant is not liable for direct infringement for c...

A Native American student in Northern California who sued his school district over the right to wear an eagle feather to his ...