Gay marriage supporters trying to reverse Proposition 8's ban on same-sex nuptials contend the federal appeals court has no bu...
The prison guard union and a watchdog group say last month's $54.4 million contract to a private prison operator is an example...
Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles Judges Donate $1 Million in Furlough Pay to Staff
By Cat Ho
The money collected from Superior Court judges' furlough and closure day salaries was expected to be available to fund trial c...
The California Air Resources Board on Tuesday revealed its most comprehensive plans yet for fighting climate change at the sta...
Staff writer Jill Redhage tries to make sense of the no-grade grading system that has become en vogue at many of the nation's ...
Staff writer Sara Randazzo visits San Francisco Law School on the occasion of its 100th birthday and finds a small but grounde...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Pepperdine Grad Takes Mediation to the World
By Jean Luc Renault
Staff writer Jean-Luc Renault puts the spotlight on Pepperdine Law School's Nootbaar Fellowship program. ...
Staff writer Sara Randazzo delves into the dispute over traditional libraries vs. online databases. ...
Whittier Law School grad Melissa Tyner explains how childhood essay contest can shape a legal career. ...
Whittier Law School grad Jacob Whitehead seized his own destiny and ended up a first-year rainmaker. ...
University of San Diego School of law grad Tracy Logan learned that taking a scary leap doesn't have to end badly. ...
UC Davis School of Law grad explains how Reed Smith taught him to love big law. ...
UCLA School of Law grad Ryan LaFevers learns the hard lessons of the well-educated and out-of-work. That will change when he a...
University of San Francisco School of Law grad found herself like many of her colleagues this year with a big firm job offer d...
Stacy Phillips and Kay West of Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra write about the Family Code's treatment of out-of-state tr...
Edwin Reeser, Jeffrey Carr, Patrick Lamb and Patrick McKenna conclude their discussion on partner compensation schemes. ...
Career services offices at law schools, under-utilized by many students in the boom years, are seeing an onslaught of demand f...
Dylan Malagrino of University of La Verne College of Law comments on the 9th Circuit's request to review U.S. v. Comprehensiv...
San Francisco's 100-lawyer law firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin lost four directors in quick succession fr...
Chief Judge Paul Michel announced his plans to retire from the federal bench after more than two decades. ...
Jeremiah Ho of Whittier Law School examines In re Bilski and whether business methods are patentable as a process. ...
A U.S. judge says plaintiffs failed to show that Chase Bank concealed increased minimum monthly payments on credit card loans....
A U.S. judge said Toyota Motor Corp. does not have standing to block a former in-house counsel's efforts to reveal damaging in...
Bar officials said 56.4 percent of applicants who took the July test passed it, a dip from the July 2008 test when a stunning ...
Litigation
Plaintiffs Could Get Access To Evidence In Pellicano Case
By Evelyn Larrubian
The sloth-like pace of civil litigation concerning ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping operation quickened...
Criminal defendants who want to get out of a plea deal by blaming their lawyer must get permission from the trial court before...
A U.K.-based company whose existence depends on making accessories for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console is suing ...
Los Angeles County Judge Shari Silver often gives lapsed defendants more chances to straighten out their lives. The justice sy...