Gov. Jerry Brown appointed six attorneys in another round of nominations.

In this recessionary economy, volunteer attorney programs may be the key to under-staffed and overburdened courts. By Penelope...

The California State Bar has decided not to file ethics charges against three attorneys for Dole Food Co. who were accused of ...

Congress has until Friday to reach some form of agreement on spending or trigger a government shutdown could disrupt the admin...

Imperial County on Friday renewed its effort to get involved in defending Proposition 8 before the 9th Circuit.

President Obama's decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court is already impacting two Northern District c...

The bitter legal war over the Presidio Parkway Project could be just a taste of the fights public-private partnerships could f...

Neutral Steven Kuhn used his skills as a magician to help him become a successful trial lawyer. Now he uses his experience han...

Approximately 80 judges from all over California assembled at the F.A.M.E. Conference and Expo Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 1...

In the spirit of its continued commitment to The San Diego Museum of Man, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP is sponsor...

Former Santa Clara County Counsel Ann Ravel will head the watchdog agency, and a Munger, Tolles & Olson partner will sit o...

Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers in Los Angeles filed civil fraud charges against a broker-dealer in Malibu, his par...

A coalition of more than 100 law professors, including 11 from California-based schools, urged Congress in a letter Wednesday ...

Lawyers may need to rethink the concept of witness credibility. By Steven G. Mehta. ...

Chapman University School of Law announces today that Tom Campbell, a former five-term member of Congress and UC Berkeley busi...

New San Francisco district attorney has eliminated the office's second-in-command position in a reshuffling. ...

Arbitration agreements requiring employees to waive their right to bring wage claims before the state labor board are unenforc...

A judge has recommended that all of the lawsuits stemming from last year's catastrophic pipeline explosion in San Bruno be hea...

The outcome of a years-long class action that accuses Wells Fargo bank of racially discriminatory mortgage lending is now in t...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP lost six of its 31 partners in Los Angeles Thursday to Indiana-based Barnes & Thorn...

How to support a client with histrionic personality disorder while maintaining control of your case. By Paul Fisher of Pepperd...

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP nabbed patent litigator Andrea Weiss Jeffries from Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in...

Partners at the Peitzman Weg & Kempinsky LLP bankruptcy boutique attribute their 12-year success rate to conservative grow...

Penalties U.S. taxpayers should know about if they fail to file a foreign bank account report. By Dennis Brager of Brager Tax ...

Winston & Strawn LLP is holding an all-hands partnership meeting today, according to an attorney familiar with the matter,...

Kendall Coffey shares lessons learned from his high-profile trials, and a behind the scenes look at tactics and strategies. By...

A recent decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to grant attorney fees in a longshore workers' comp case could put ...

When Justice Carlos R. Moreno leaves the state Supreme Court next week he'll start work at Irell & Manella, a respected Lo...

Tension between many trial court judges and the Judicial Council has risen to an all-time high, highlighted by the introductio...

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a case against Bank of America Corp., rejecting investors' claims that the bank failed t...