An unprecedented number of San Diego County judges are being challenged in the upcoming June 8 primary, prompting some observe...
A state appellate panel Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of an unusual lawsuit filed by a disbarred attorney who wants the San...
A judge long critical of the way District Attorney Rod Pacheco runs his office said Wednesday he will challenge the top prosec...
A new bill introduced Wednesday seeks to make it easier for some foreign entrepreneurs to obtain visas in exchange for creatin...
On the eve of a highly anticipated and politically charged health care summit, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly app...
Eric Kingsley and Elana Levine of Kingsley & Kingsley say proposed bill attempts to make class certification more difficul...
In her new book, attorney Susan Blakely addresses the work-life issues facing women lawyers today and provides a road map to p...
Perspective
The Partner: When Things Don't Turn Out Right the First Time
By Sharon Liangn
When her plan to become a health care lawyer didn't unfold as expected, Colleen Snow learned to let go and move onto a new ver...
Jordan Crosby felt stuck in her career choice, but with high student loans, a mortgage and a family to support, she was afraid...
After realizing she couldn't have it all, Laura Oberbroeckling left her partner position at a national firm to start her own p...
A Superior Court judge has ruled for the first time that State Bar investigators are law enforcement officers and may testify ...
Patrick Coughlin has stepped down from the executive committee of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, the nation's lar...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Obama Taps Berkeley Law Professor to Sit on the 9th Circuit
By John Roemer
Professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to one of the two open seats on the federal appeals court is likely to set off a tough conf...
In 10 years in the movie business, David Bergstein has developed a list of enemies that take most Hollywood moguls a lifetime ...
In an uncharacteristically pointed speech to the Legislature Tuesday afternoon, California Chief Justice Ronald M. George appe...
IRVINE - The Bascom Group LLC reported a fourth-quarter 11.8 percent increase of its net operating income compared with the sa...
Google Inc. confirmed Tuesday afternoon it is facing a first-of-its-kind antitrust inquiry into its search and search advertis...
A blind UCLA School of Law graduate can proceed to take the bar exam using special software for the visually impaired, the 9th...
Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges opened an office in Mannheim, Germany, the firm's third outside t...
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a retrial in a case that previously reached a $65 million jury verdict, siding ...
The Internet has presented another minefield for trademark attorneys to navigate: social networking sites. ...
Attorneys for the former chief executive of KB Home encountered a skeptical judge on Tuesday as they claimed federal prosecuto...
Lawyers raise concerns over the Obama administration's move to update a long-standing environmental law by laying out how agen...
U.S. Supreme Court justices Tuesday grappled with whether a Los Angeles group's assistance to foreign terrorist groups falls f...
In his 15th annual State of the Judiciary speech to the Legislature, Chief Justice Ronald M. George said the courts are not a ...
General counsel John McGill says the 4th District has provided insurance companies with instructions for avoiding their obliga...
Practitioner James Moneer explains why use of expert declarations in SLAPP fee motions can boost your chances of securing the ...
Michale Callahan, a former Illinois State police officer, writes about the unsolved murders of Dyke and Karen Rhoads, and why ...
The California Newspaper Publishers Association and the American Civil Liberties Union may be joining efforts by a state lawma...
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court Facilitates Removal of Class Actions to Federal Court
By Lawrence Hurleyn
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. justices made it easier for companies to remove lawsuits to federal court, which are often p...