More than 200,000 state workers will get to keep the full wages they've been paid, a Superior Court Judge ordered Friday. ...
A Dewey & LeBoeuf mergers and acquisitions team in East Palo Alto served as U.S. legal counsel to SANYO Electric as it spu...
The alleged drunken driver accused of killing a young Angels pitcher in an April 2009 car crash will go to trial in Orange Cou...
Shares of 3-D technology company RealD's initial public offering jumped 22 percent above its offer price during its first day ...
Munger Tolles & Olson, a firm known for its buttoned-down culture, is representing renowned bachelor Hugh Hefner in a bid ...
An attempt by environmentalists to block regional air regulators from issuing air pollution permits has been rebuffed by a Los...
A former Navy major testified Friday that he was "completely devastated" when his commanding officer stripped him of his dutie...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could give himself two California Supreme Court appointments before he leaves office this year, but...
The Department of Labor has altered the definition of “son or daughter” under the Family and Medical Leave Act to better refle...
The idea of "open-sourcing" legal documents is gaining renewed interest among startup company lawyers pursuing the elusive goa...
Stephen Rohde of the ACLU of Southern California reviews the history behind the "Great Writ" and why its remedies should exten...
Class trials are hardly discussed in practice guides because they are so rare, but James Donato of Shearman & Stearling ra...
Making punitive damages non-tax deductible for defendants would raise immediate revenue for Washington but its long-term impli...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Must Hear Convict's Claims
By John Roemer
A Los Angeles Deputy DA may have failed to disclose to the defense in a murder trial that law enforcement officials paid cash ...
Litigious clients beware - if you sue your law firm for malpractice and lose, you are more likely to pay for it later. Firms a...
Los Angeles County Judge Christian Gullón says he considers himself a law-and-order type but does not look at life in black an...
In salty, off-the-record sessions Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz tries to scare younger offenders out of a li...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
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...
Letter to the Editor
Darrell Forgey argues that the “original intent” of jurisprudence is a myth
By Carla Pinedan
With Justice John Paul Stevens now retired, Justice Stephen G. Breyer looks ready to replace his former colleague as dissenter...
John E. McDermott, a federal magistrate judge in Los Angeles, is a self-professed 'child of the '60s' who believes the law sho...
Google's recent win in Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against its subsidiary YouTube cost it $100 million ...
San Diego-based Verenium Corp. agreed to sell its cellulosic biofuels business to BP Biofuels North America for $98.3 million....
The Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement task force, known as SAFE, on Thursday completed its first large-scale effort to verify ...
New computer technology to track and manage California court dockets has been deployed in the three early adapter counties of ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Nominee Greeted Warmly
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Mary H. Murguia, nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, met with a warm recept...
Despite allegations of a conspiracy to withhold information about a conflict of interest, an arbitrator and his employer are i...
Lauren Teukolsky, a former federal court clerk who spent eight years as an associate at the public interest firm Hadsell Storm...
David Crenshaw has been named chief counsel at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Lowey, the largest boutique business immigration...