With lenders reluctant to provide debtors the financing needed to reorganize under Chapter 11, bankruptcy lawyers have been ad...

After three years of law school, Andrew Ardinger finally got to stand inside a courtroom as a bona fide lawyer. However, it wa...

For Abbey Glenn, being deferred by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for a year to work in the public interest sector seems only fit...

Sitting on $150,000 in student debt is no easy task, but until her full salary from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe kicks i...

The changes in the annual roundup of Northern California's 20 largest law firms won't be found in the names. No firm jumped on...

In the game of law firm musical chairs, the song stopped last year for a notable number of Northern California's créme de la c...

In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a settlement in a major copyright infringement case. ...

A federal judge Tuesday enjoined Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley from alleged "union-busting" tactics in a r...

Irell & Manella partners Morgan Chu and Jonathan Kagan won a defense verdict late last week in a breach of contract trial ...

Overruling itself, a divided 9th Circuit panel held Tuesday held that California employers who require workers to drive compan...

Sandy Lechtick of Esquire, Inc. says the manner in which law firms exploit opportunity and react to danger will play a signifi...

California recently passed several bills impacting the insurance industry in response to federal legislation, write Jamison Na...

Judge Don Howard of Amador County says nothing in Proposition 36 suggests use of community service as a punishment at the outs...

Assistant Federal Public Defender Harvey Gee examines the Supreme Court's 7-2 majority opinion in Florida v. Powell and the is...

Family law specialist Fred Silberberg says the budget crisis is not the real reason for why the family court system has reache...

Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a smart phone manufacturer that uses Google's Android operating system, alleging that t...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not overstep his authority when he slashed about $500 million from health clinics and other soc...

Employers' appeals of sanctions for alleged violation of immigration laws dropped to a mere 31 in the last fiscal year, accord...

Tackling a key gun rights question, the U.S. Supreme Court seemed receptive Tuesday to the idea of applying the Second Amendme...

Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) Superior Court JudgeNew York University School of Law ...

In an unusual move, a San Diego sitting judge - being challenged in the June 8 primary - is asking the court to disqualify his...

OXNARD - Two abandoned buildings, named the Halaco Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency, were demolished Marc...

LOS ANGELES - A majority of finance executives at public and private Southern California companies polled by Grant Thornton LL...

LOS ANGELES - A local building owner was arrested for draping an allegedly illegal sign over a Hollywood building, according t...

Fitted with a prosthetic leg, Doyle regularly represents amputees, often on a pro bono basis when they are battling for insura...

The grandson of Mexican immigrants, Orange County Judge Frederick Aguirre organizes an annual tribute to veterans of Mexican h...

Morrison & Foerster is advising Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma in a contentious bid to acquire New York-based OSI Pharmaceuti...

Already fighting a high-profile lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court and government investigations, Anthem Blue Cross was sue...

Cities, counties and other public entities around California hit a roadblock on Monday when a San Francisco Superior Court jud...

DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment have introduced a new character to help defend their Superman franchise - O'Melveny &...