About 200 Los Angeles Superior Court employees and former employees marched Wednesday in protest of court contractions that le...
Trusts and estates lawyer Ellen Kahn leads Sideman & Bancroft as one of the largest female-owned law firms in the nation. ...
The father of Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old woman who went missing after she was released from the Malibu sheriff's statio...
A San Francisco federal judge denied a request by environmentalists and organic farming interests Tuesday to immediately halt ...
In an effort to improve access to court information, the U.S. Judicial Conference voted Tuesday to make digital audio recordin...
Legal consultant Ida Abbott launched a California-based roundtable earlier this year for female law firm leaders."They didn't ...
While more and more minorities are elevated to the bench, they join a roster that is still predominantly white. ...
Recent studies and anecdotal evidence suggest many firms have cut back on diversity-focused recruiting, special events and inv...
Bankruptcy cases in the Central District of California skyrocketed 71 percent in fiscal 2009, trumping the 34.5 percent surge ...
A 67-year-old probate lawyer who allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients over the past decade faces ...
McGuireWoods is appealing U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real's recent decision barring it from collecting $12 million in attor...
The King of Pop will reign over the charts for years despite his untimely death last June. At least, that's the expectation be...
A federal judge on Tuesday seemed inclined to let stand a magistrate judge's order that groups who opposed Proposition 8 turn ...
While the legal diversity landscape has improved, minority representation in the partner ranks has a long way to go, writes Sa...
An Orange County lawyer must stand trial on six felony counts of defrauding homeowners seeking mortgage modifications and two ...
Lawrence Hinkle II, President of the John M. Langston Bar Association, says our youth is the key to resolving the legal profes...
In her new book, Giovanna Pang Garcia interviews 100 of the most successful and influential Chinese women in America to learn ...
Bingham McCutchen may have found the wedge it needed to establish a strong corporate transactional practice in Northern Califo...
Layoffs at Los Angeles Superior Court delivered a crushing blow to clerical assistants and court services assistants, who toge...
Administrative/Regulatory
Epidemic Of Fraud Could Drain Fund For Lawyer Victims
By Amy Yarbroughn
A State Bar fund that reimburses clients victimized by their attorneys could soon be out of money, after an avalanche of claim...
Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School writes about the U.S.' response to a housing development dispute in Jerusalem. ...
To embrace the true spirit of diversity is to accept individuals who fall outside of community set standards, writes Kristina ...
Judge Robert Twiss of Sacramento County Superior Court does not make it easy for prospective jurors to avoid their civic oblig...
What do private companies like Facebook, Twitter and Yelp all have in common besides wild speculation over the possibility of ...
An affordable housing advocacy group prevailed in a Bay Area state court when the judge ruled that Pleasanton's housing cap vi...
The one candidate challenging a sitting Orange County judge in the June election has dropped out of the race. ...
The children of late comic book artist Jack Kirby have sued Marvel Entertainment in Los Angeles federal court as part of an ef...
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O'Melveny & Myers LLP recently represented the Chinese medical device manufacturer Mindray Medical International Limited i...
A Super Bowl commercial for Kia Motors America featuring a group of life-sized toys causing mayhem is getting into trouble of ...