Seven of the 10 lawyers at San Francisco real estate and land use boutique Cassidy Shimko Dawson & Kawakami decamped to 35...

Latham & Watkins e-mailed its associates their 2010 salaries Monday and not only did their numbers go up, but associates r...

Sloan Simmons of Lozano Smith uses recent rulings to provide guidance on the issue of student discipline and cyberbullying. ...

Dallas Holmes, Superior Court judge sitting on assignment, applauds suggestions to improve civil proceedings. ...

The definition of the modern American family, especially for black families, has reconfigured to the extent where old rules th...

Los Angeles-based Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro received a shock at the year's end when six partners gave notice the day...

Aaron Cohn and Jennifer Hernandez of Holland & Knight say regulations favoring public transit, pedestrian walkways and bic...

Associate Justice Terence Bruiniers of the 1st District Court of Appeal says comments about the California Case Management Sys...

Mary-Christine Sungaila of Horvitz & Levy writes about her firm's practice of allotting a six-week break to partners every...

As airport security fears mounted last week in the wake of a foiled airplane bombing, attorney David M. Liberman knew his task...

When the clock struck midnight Thursday, estate planning and wealth management attorneys suddenly faced an unthinkable reality...

California could be hit with nearly $30 billion in economic losses over the next four years as a result of cuts to Los Angeles...

A lone gunman Monday morning entered the Las Vegas federal courthouse, where he shot and killed a veteran court security offic...

Sharon Lueras has had an interesting career ride: from blackjack dealer to paralegal to lawyer to judge.

Since the tech bust of 2000, the number of virtual law firms has proliferated, including Axiom Legal, which has created an alt...

The experiment to allow cameras in 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals trial courts could begin Wednesday in San Francisco at a ...

In the first settlement of any lawsuit stemming from ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano's illegal wiretapping, Beverly ...

Marvel Entertainment stockholders approved The Walt Disney Co.'s $4.3 billion acquisition of the comic book company at a speci...

If there's a way to sum up 2009 in San Bernardino County, it was scandal redux. New charges were filed against other top offic...

A Taiwanese electronics maker agreed to pay $20 million to resolve antitrust claims that it conspired to fix prices in the liq...

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Kevin A. Enright, who started his two-year stint as presiding judge of the San Diego County Superior Court Jan. 1, is facing a...

California Attorney General Jerry Brown still hasn't formally announced whether he will forego a re-election bid for a run at ...

Michael Kalt, Claudette Wilson and Lois Kosch of Wilson Turner Kosmo say the new year brings legislative opportunity to improv...

At a time when law school graduates are increasingly struggling to get hired or facing lower pay, one elite group is sitting p...

Arbitration is changing more rapidly than any other area of law, said California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno. ...

Tom Umberg, Army Colonel and partner at Manatt, says action and supporting efforts to establish the rule of law in Afghanistan...

Until recently, pursuing a legal career was a safe investment that all but insured long-term success. Today, as the price of t...

The World Trade Organization's recent ruling against China's restrictions on foreign entertainment imports was a victory for H...

Kern County (Bakersfield) Superior Court Judge ...