If you want a primer on the George Court, look no further than Ronald M. George's handling of the touchy issue of same-sex mar...
With President Obama expected to sign a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" Wednesday, lawyers battling the law said they would ...
A Corona hospital was ordered to pay a fired nurse $1.63 million following a Riverside jury's verdict Friday to award her for ...
After hiking for more than an hour with sheriff's deputies up the rugged Calabasas hills, Latice Sutton prepared a small memor...
Los Angeles-based attorneys with Kirkland & Ellis persuaded a federal appeals court panel Monday to affirm a Massachusetts...
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan gave above-market bonuses to its associates last week, breaking the bar set by Cravath, ...
The State Bar will not discipline Thomas V. Girardi or Walter J. Lack and other lawyers from Lack's firm for trying to enforce...
Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to provide mortgage loan modifications worth more than $2 billion to thousands of California homeo...
Bankruptcy Judge Erithe Smith is witnessing first-hand the toll the sluggish economy has had on small businesses. She hears as...
AT&T announced Monday it plans to acquire spectrum licenses from Qualcomm Inc.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals staff attorney continued her quest Friday for something her heterosexual counterparts alre...
Vice President, General Counsel, & Corporate Secretary for Openwave Systems Inc. Redwood City ...
A few products that will add enjoyment to the holiday season. By Paul R. Kiesel of Kiesel Boucher & Larson. ...
Perspective
Will Today’s Healthcare Lawyer Have the Skills to Succeed Under Health Reform?
By Karen Natividadn
Can lawyers effectively keep up with the fast-changing health care industry? By Paul R. DeMuro of Latham & Watkins. ...
California's growing body of climate change regulation is complicated, but the potential for payoff is real. By Christopher H....
New whistleblower programs hope to avert future Madoff-esque financial frauds and malfeasance. By Mark Labaton of Motley Rice....
Perspective
New Estate Tax Law Puts Viability of Most Existing Estate Plans in Doubt
By Sharon Liangn
Under the new estate tax law, many existing estate plans will no longer work, and many others will cause actual harm. By Rober...
A San Diego federal judge granted an American Indian tribe's request to temporarily halt a $2 billion, 6,500-acre solar projec...
A federal judge has dismissed a case filed this summer by a Mexican citizen who accused Sempra Energy of stealing his land. ...
The city of San Diego has managed to reduce the cost of outside legal counsel, the city attorney's office reported on Friday. ...
A judge Friday threw out a Santa Rosa ordinance requiring developers to agree to have their projects annexed into special tax ...
Lawyers for Gov. Arnold Scharzenegger hit another roadblock on Friday in their efforts to close the sale of 11 state-owned off...
Labor/Employment
Ex-Investigator Sues 'Sex Obsessed' Securities Firm
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
Partners at Century City-based Glancy Binkow & Goldberg made derogatory remarks about women and once took firm employees t...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Ex EFF Lawyer Must Answer Questions
By Craig Andersonn
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and former senior staff attorney Fred von Lohmann will have to provide documents and answer...
The U.S. House of Representatives sent a bill to President Barack Obama that would allow six judicial districts to participate...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed its previous decision Friday in a patent dispute between medical di...
Marin County officials have uncovered evidence that a former employee accepted bribes in exchange for approving a flawed compu...
California's building industry and a string of municipalities may seek state Supreme Court review of an appellate opinion last...
Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige persuades parties to settle their disputes or else risk the uncertainty of trial, and the strict rul...