Attorney David R. Singer, an entertainment and media litigation partner in Hogan & Hartson's Los Angeles office, said dela...

Lawmakers returned to Sacramento this week and immediately began to tackle the California Department of Corrections & Reha...

Many new lawyers don't learn essential skills like drafting subpoenas and other documents until they're on the job, writes Nat...

A woman who alleged that sex crimes prosecutor Michael Gressett wielded a gun while using an ice pick to rape her will have to...

Although record labels face hefty obstacles in trying to prevent piracy, it does not appear that they will be giving up anytim...

With Thomas P. O'Brien's imminent departure as U.S. attorney for the Central District of California to help set up a white-col...

More than 93 percent of Los Angeles Superior Court's 550 judges and commissioners took a voluntary pay cut for July's furlough...

A company that once sued Facebook claiming the social networking site stole its ideas is now owned by Facebook, and, in the la...

The California Supreme Court strengthened legal protections for publishers Monday, saying a rule designed to limit the media's...

Law students from both Northern and Southern California have forged an effort to help military members with civilian legal pro...

Cyber worms can infect a law firm's network and allow their creators access and even control of the networked computers, write...

New provisions for endorsement deals will reduce the number of disputes over pension and health contributions on these special...

The first time Joshua Floum was involved in taking a company public was last year, when he led San Francisco-based Visa Inc. t...

This fall, not one but two U.S. Supreme Court cases will rest on a 28-word paragraph that members of Congress added at the las...

The heirs to one of Superman's co-creators successfully recaptured the rights to works previously assumed to belong to DC Comi...

Four years into the practice, Brown, White & Newhouse has grown to 12 lawyers. It handles commercial civil litigation and...

The verdict is out on whether the Obama administration is bringing a real cure to immigration woes or just applying band-aids ...

Property owners leasing to BigLaw firm tenants better step up supervision of the risk parameters of their lease deals, writes ...

What will inevitable technological advances mean for the practice of law, asks Vance Woodward. ...

Before you attempt to implement any marketing plan, you must understand the intricacies of the law firm itself, writes Jennife...

The economic downturn won't sting quite so badly for San Joaquin County Superior Court. The Judicial Council voted unanimously...

With a new ruling by the 4th District of Court of Appeal, drafting certain estate planning documents has become more complicat...

In yet another lesson about the perils of going to trial, a federal jury has decided that Los Angeles County must pay more tha...

It's been nine years since Miguel Martinez and four others picked strawberries for a central California grower who went belly ...

Attorneys in the California offices of Reed Smith and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati were behind Santa Ana-based hard dr...

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

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...

A recent spate of breach-of-contract lawsuits filed by law firms against former clients illustrates what some legal observers ...

Cesar Brandon Urena drowned during swim class at La Quinta High School in La Quinta in 2007, when he was 14. His parents have ...

A coalition of judges from throughout the state has been discussing, largely through emails, forming a new group aimed at forc...