For its 50th anniversary, the Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County thought it fitting that its only living p...
A decision by a Sacramento judge has turned litigation over a simple fender bender into a tug-of-war over the state's control ...
The job as California's top lawyer is still anybody's to win, according to a poll released by one of the Democratic candidates...
Hall Marston of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold discusses the quandary facing appellate lawyers when in receipt of a writ...
Mandana Massoumi of Dorsey & Whitney reviews past year employment rulings by the California Supreme Court and looks at wha...
Letter to the Editor
At the Federalist Shindig, a Great Night Was Had By All
By Sharon Liangn
A reader is entertained by a photo and caption featuring John C. Yoo attending a recent Federalist Society event in San Franci...
Ever wonder why some lawyers who are not as smart or connected secure the best of everything? "Fame 101" by Maggie Jessup answ...
A Senate panel Thursday cleared U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen's nomination to the federal bench in San Francisco on str...
To close watchers of storied but debt-burdened movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, bankruptcy is looking more and more like a li...
Judges and Judiciary
AOC Seeks Investors to Finish Statewide Computer Project
By Amy Yarbroughn
Court administrators has not signed a contract for deployment of the system, but have announced their intent to award the cont...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Laws governing overpayments are evolving; landlords and tenants need to be aware of their rights, write William Faulkner and T...
When the question of whether former officials of foreign countries can be sued in American courts for acts of torture goes bef...
William Palmer grew up in Bakersfield, and came home to pratice law. Now he's a judge, with no need for formalities in court.
After facing months of criticism for blocking law firms from seeing reviews of their work on a Web site, the Association of Co...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday let stand a federal law criminalizing possession of body armor by a felon. ...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman debated moving away from a lockstep-based associate compensation structure but decided not to,...
In response to the influx of loan modification scams, Marietta Rodriguez of NeighborWorks America says knowledge is the homeow...
Bethany Hengsbach of Sheppard Mullin identifies three lessons to be learned from the Department of Justice's recent clampdown ...
Knowledge standards are necessary to understand the complex issues of technology and law involved in e-discovery, writes Danie...
The mortgage fraud task force of the U.S. Attorney's office won its first case in a Northern District federal trial, but some ...
Washington, D.C.-based Howrey laid off 29 associates nationwide this week as part of a cost-cutting measure, including five in...
With consumer trust a top priority, business models that fail to 'compete on privacy' risk losing customers, write Sean Morris...
Roderick Walston of Best Best & Krieger examines the Supreme Court's 5-4 split in South Carolina v. North Carolina,...
Call it the battle of the lab coats. California's eye doctors are waging a tense and unlikely battle over who can, and can't, ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court: 'Bomber's' Sentence Too Short
By John Roemer
The Millennium Bomber's 22-year sentence is too short, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. ...
After a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco convicted a woman on 12 counts relating to mortgage fraud Tuesday af...
A jury slapped a neurosurgeon with a $16.5 million in damages, finding that he was negligent in making a patient wait two days...