John McLachlan of Fisher & Phillips says the role of first line supervisors plays a crucial role in an employer's strategy...
With many foreclosure consultants understaffed, borrowers hit by the housing crisis need help from the legal community, writes...
Perspective
Consideration Met with Part Performance: Steiner v. Thexton Reversed
By Sharon Liangn
Nadav Ravid of Buchalter Nemer examines a recent California Supreme Court ruling that will significantly impact commercial rea...
Summer associates at law firms suffered a dramatic decline in the number of full-time job offers they received last year, and ...
Judges and Judiciary
Civil Lawyer Became a 'Prosecutor' In Judge Election
By Rebecca U. Cho
A Los Angeles deputy city attorney who has focused his 15-year career in the office's civil side identified himself as a "crim...
As a prosecutor and litigator, Steve Crandall took on polluters. Now a judge, tree-killing discovery is his target.
Garo Mardirossian, the 2010 president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, prides himself as the first "forei...
Intellectual Property
25 Portfolio Managers, Prosecutors, and License Specialists
By Pat Broderick
Top 25 portfolio managers, prosecutors and license specialists ...
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Intellectual Property
Central District Struggles In Its Role as Top Patent Venue
By David Houstonn
At the opening of a self-help legal clinic last year, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz of Los Angeles told pro se litigants ...
The Obama administration is in the midst of creating the first ever government-wide plan for how a host of agencies work toget...
San Diego attorney Margaret M. Mann has been sworn in as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District by Chi...
Federal prosecutors trying to avoid the fallout from a growing crime lab scandal agreed Tuesday to postpone the sentencing of ...
Sacramento Superior Court judges on Tuesday announced plans to spend $1.45 million during the next five years to take greater ...
A San Diego magistrate judge has reversed a sanctions order against six attorneys who represented Qualcomm Inc. and fell under...
Los Gatos attorney Pierce Gore, facing a lawsuit over a newspaper advertisement seeking potential class-action plaintiffs, may...
Spurred by stories of sick and injured policyholders whose disability claims are improperly denied and then tied up in court, ...
Testimony in the prosecution of ex-KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz on stock option backdating charges ended Tuesday, with prosecutors...
An appellate court Tuesday rejected a the petition of a quadriplegic, who might be the state's "most-expensive" prisoner, for ...
Brian Kabateck and Evan Zucker of Kabateck Brown Kellner ask what Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates v. Allstate Insurance
The scandal involving sexual crimes continues, but the Catholic Church can't quite nail down the concept of repentance, writes...
Bryan Liang of California Western School of Law and Tim Mackey of the Institute of Health Law Studies discuss conflicts of int...
D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenza says when revenge comes in the form of a SLAPP lawsuit, payback is best served in accordanc...
Law firms found no silver bullet for achieving financial stability last year and layoffs turned out to be one of the few signi...
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee seized Tuesday on UC Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu's failure to f...
In her new book, Areva Martin provides parents and caregivers with vital and relevant instructions on how to stand up for chil...
By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer Legal professionals had a field day at the Mexican American Bar Association’s ...
Read our annual list of the leading intellectual property lawyers in California. Plus, we explore how the Central District is ...
Jenna Hamerling, left, Melissa Tyner and David Ackerly launched the Inner City Law Center's legal clinic focusing on the legal...
Teresa Estrada-Mullaney, who trained as a dancer as a child, is known for her professionalism and grace.