Robert Vanderet is a self-described '60s liberal' who campaigned for Robert Kennedy and Barack Obama. Now he presides over a c...

Judge Sandra Ikuta began her professional life as a journalist for martial arts publications. She turned to a different kind o...

Gilead Sciences’ Brett Pletcher oversees efforts to sell medicine where it is needed the most. ...

A federal appeals court has tossed out a $358 million damage award against Microsoft Corp., remanding the patent infringement ...

As the debate over a national health care plan dominates the political discussion in Washington, D.C., the state Assembly Thur...

Insurance companies treat reproductive health care as a luxury and charge accordingly, writes Willie J. Parker. ...

All but five of Orange County's 111 Superior Court judges have agreed to contribute a portion of their salaries to the court f...

In their chapter of "Bright Ideas, Insights from Legal Luminaries Worldwide," Jolene Overbeck and Mary K. Young emphasize the ...

Lawyers at elite Hollywood boutique Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown say Nancy Boxwell's friendly, low-key style and ability to b...

The USC Gould School of Law is set to announce a graduate program in tax law today, making it the only top 20 law school on th...

Most practitioners (and even some judges) have had little exposure to the Carmack Amendment and are unaware of its vast pre-em...

Although popular scapegoats, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Glass-Steagal Act did not cause this economic crisis, writes K...

On Friday, President Barack Obama named Jeffrey L. Bleich, who has served as a legal advisor to the president since March, U.S...

Citing attorney-client privilege, Toyota has asked a federal judge to seal a bombshell of a lawsuit filed by a former in-house...

At their confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. promised to show deference t...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

A reader weighs in on a judge who inspired his career path.

Lawyers who get involved and stay involved in what they enjoy are likely to weather the economic storm more easily, writes Sta...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Stuart Hing's transition from jumpsuited funk musician to prosecutor and, finally, judge was motivated by the desire to make ...

Catherine A. Conway of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, helped successfully represent Starbucks in beating back a $100 mill...

After a decade of hearing graphic murder trials, overseeing a bleeding court budget is less harrowing for Judge Mary Ann O'Mal...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Automobile Dealers Association filed a petition for review with the U.S. Court o...

The core of the way we govern ourselves - the basic gears in the watch of state government - have seriously eroded over time, ...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced late Wednesday the appointment of Nancy L. Ayers to a judgeship in the Ventura County...

Rehashing a common argument, supporters of California's same-sex marriage ban told a federal judge late Wednesday that the gov...

The Federal Circuit recently found that under some circumstances, awarding an ongoing royalty for patent infringement in lieu ...

Prevailing plaintiffs should ordinarily recover attorney fees, but the opposite presumption applies to prevailing employers, w...

Clerical workers for the State Compensation Insurance Fund can immediately return to work and are entitled to back pay, a San ...

The governor's cuts to child welfare aren't simply morally wrong, they are also fiscally unsound, write John Burton and Miriam...