In its second ruling this year in favor of sticking to shorter deadlines in environmental cases, the California Supreme Court ...

Wayne Barsky, a Century City partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, received the Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Courts need a unitary case management system now, write presiding judges and court executive officers from the counties of Ven...

The new federal reform law finalized this week increases money for fraud prevention and makes it easier to prosecute some type...

In a major blow to the Obama administration and the Bush administration before it, a San Francisco federal judge cast aside th...

Former Mayor Richard Riordan, top left, and philanthropist Eli Broad, bottom right, are among the Los Angeles civic leaders se...

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is accusing a company that managed city escrow accounts for more than 15 years of s...

Attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips succeeded Tuesday in vacating the conviction of an Alaba...

With a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that criminal defense lawyers are required to warn immigrant clients o...

A fractured U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday that federal law preempts state regulations that bar federal courts from hearing...

A new state law banning sick or "downer" animals from entering the food supply can be enforced against the pork industry while...

Tim Taylor, Barbara Brenner, Tom Henry and Sigrid Waggener of Stoel Rives examine the recent and highly anticipated decision i...

John Kim and Allan Ickowitz of Nossaman break down bankruptcy claims trading and lay out some best practices for selling claim...

Colleen Smith and Aryn Thomas of Latham & Watkins discuss the 9th Circuit decision denying compensation to police officers...

As the number of convicted felons sentenced to death has declined across the nation, California has sent more inmates to death...

In what might be the final battle over open source software, a Nevada jury ruled Tuesday that Novell Inc. owns all Unix copyri...

Tens of thousands of employees who expected to go back to work on Friday received disappointing news Tuesday when the First Di...

The federal Environmental Protection Agency moved Tuesday to strike a rule easing requirements on major polluters to install s...

San Francisco's Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein filed a national class action lawsuit Wednesday in New York federal cou...

Carlsbad-based Callaway Golf Co. lost a bid for as much as $246 million in damages over its claim that Acushnet Co. - maker of...

The long-rumored transition of power at Townsend and Townsend and Crew became official Tuesday, when the firm announced litiga...

A senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney is set to go on trial Wednesday on allegations that he took bribes ...

A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday bolstered the efforts of creditors seeking an involuntary bankruptcy for companies controlled b...

Planned cuts at Los Angeles County Superior Court are "larger than necessary" and "overly pessimistic," according to a report ...

Technology empowers counsel with the means to independently verify that "smoking gun" document, write Daniel Garrie of ARC and...

Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School reviews George Schultz's new book, "Evicted! Property Rights and Eminent Domain." ...

Rick Rayl and Rensselaer Smith of Nossaman examine a recent case clarifying the scope of a mechanic's lien where work was perf...

In a major blow to the Obama administration and the Bush administration before it, a San Francisco federal judge cast aside th...

Peter Stone and Alexander Lyon of Paul Hastings say reliance and causation issues continue to plague consumer class actions ev...