SAG's general counsel weighs in on the guild's deals involving endorsement contracts.

U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien told his staff late Monday that he has taken a job at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Sept...

Fewer law firms will be showing up on campus this year for their annual ritual of interviews with law students about to start ...

A memorial service will be held Thursday for Robert M. Takasugi, the first Japanese-American judge on the federal bench. ...

Jeff Randall, an intellectual property star at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, has joined Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &...

With state revenues having plummeted, the state simply can't afford Irvine's law school, writes Stephen Bainbridge. ...

A San Bernardino Superior Court judge Monday threw out the murder conviction of William Richards, who spent the last 12 years ...

Prosecutors announced Monday they will seek a retrial for a prominent San Mateo psychiatrist accused of molesting his young pa...

A judge has approved a deal to release a movie of Michael Jackson's concert rehearsals recorded shortly before his death, but ...

A criminal defense lawyer's substandard performance led to his client's murder conviction and sentence of life without parole,...

Unmanaged illegal Internet traffic is a significant source of network congestion and cost that impedes investment in broadband...

In a win for consumers during tough financial times, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that people who write bad check...

The impact of having judges with different life histories, especially in appellate cases decided by panels, is hard to quantif...

Filmmakers accepting money to finance their projects must take securities issues seriously, writes Zac Locke. ...

The federal government is prosecuting a former pharmaceutical executive accused of fraudulently and illegally marketing a drug...

Despite a budget outlook so bleak that courts are closing an extra day a month, the AOC is paying for 130 new judges and other...

Criminal defendants' access to electronically stored information varies from court to court because of the lack of uniform rul...

Readers weigh in on the validity of MICRA and jury instructions governing reasonable doubt.

Drop strangers into the wilderness, make them plot against one another and force them to eat bugs - that's just asking for a l...

President Obama made three nominations for district judges in California on Friday -- including two that would represent histo...

President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Benjamin Wagner for U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of California. Currently ...

At Fenwick & West, one of Silicon Valley's quintessential legal shops, there's more than one way to the top. The poster ch...

The number of jobs lost in the legal sector slowed again during July after spiking in June, but roughly 2,700 positions were s...

E-discovery assumes a critical role unique to criminal proceedings, write Maureen Duffy-Lewis and Daniel B. Garrie and Daniel ...

The status of Heller Ehrman's former headquarters mandates rethinking of the approach that building owners apply to making lea...

San Diego County Superior Court, starting Sept. 16, will close on the third Wednesday of each month through June 2010. ...

Attorneys at O'Melveny & Myers put the Cayman Islands' new merger statute to its first test when their client, Auvitek Int...

Former deputy DA Walt Lewis explains how his worldview was turned upside down by the criminal justice system in his book "The ...

New laws aimed at reclaiming "abandoned" gift cards raise serious concerns about the definition of private property, write Don...

The word on the street: The PTO is tweaking its software to fix a problem with patent timing. ...