Amazon announced this week that it would purchase online shoe- and handbag-retailer Zappos for $865 million, plus $40 million ...

By using flawed rating models, credit rating agencies transformed pools of junk mortgages into securities supposedly worth far...

Federal nuclear safety officials don't have to guard against the threat of airborne terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants,...

Private and public defenders must unite to preserve our constitutional right to a qualified and funded defender, write Julie T...

The road is slowly being paved to allow bankrupt San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman to unload its obligations in Shanghai an...

After street rallies failed to stop Alameda County Superior Court from laying off 73 employees, about a dozen of the laid-off ...

The widow of a Jewish Defense League member who was killed in prison in 2005 lost her wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. ...

A San Bernardino County supervisor has called for an investigation of District Attorney Michael Ramos, saying he has "deep con...

A federal agency that oversees the shipping industry has given up its legal fight against the ports of Los Angeles and Long Be...

Ventura County Superior Court Commissioner Roger Lund's life voyage has taken him to Osaka, Japan on several occasions, includ...

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman has shown that she can handle the heat, as she presided over a high-...

Law firms’ culture of unaccountability distinguishes law firms from real business, writes Edwin B. Reeser. ...

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...

Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading "Handle Pro Pers Just Like a Pro" by Jacqueline A. Connor and answering the questions ...

Thurgood Marshall was an unseen presence Thursday as U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan chatted with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski...

Indicted Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey A. Silberman pleaded not guilty Thursday to bribery charges in an Oran...

Attorneys representing "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis in his tax evasion case are asking the 9th Circuit to dismiss his...

Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions may bolster defendants' efforts to establish the insufficiency of boilerplate allegati...

As the state high court recognized in 'Munson v. Del Taco,' disability-rights plaintiffs and businesses want to peacefully co-...

Community mediation is a non-zero-sum, value-based, rights-seeking, joint session transformative dispute resolution process, w...

Chris R. Conway draws on skills he developed dousing hot tempers on the Superior Court to coax settlements as a neutral at Jud...

In a novel legal maneuver, the SEC is using Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to claw back money from a company chief exec...

A federal court-appointed temporary receiver described an Anaheim loan modification company being sued for fraud as being like...

Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama has drawn on no less than a dozen prominent California attorneys to fill the rank...

A little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court decision made last month is already transforming the debate over how much control courts h...

The U.S. Supreme Court has found an attorney does not adequately represent the class where he also separately represents indiv...

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

Some attorneys are demanding that they receive royalties from companies that sell access to the briefs they write. Attorney Ed...

A plaintiffs lawyer charged Wednesday that Hyundai Motor Co. arranged with the Orange County district attorney's office to res...

In their book "The Rules of Disengagement," Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd draw important parallels between GI war resista...