Instructions on the "reasonable doubt" standard can be ambiguous and confusing, writes Dean D. Pregerson. ...

The Consumer Attorneys of California has begun a new push to topple the state's restrictive cap on damages in medical malpract...

Employers can set up hidden cameras in the workplace, but they'd better have good reasons for doing it and tread carefully to ...

Yahoo's general counsel, Mike Callahan, talks about why the Justice Department should approve the Yahoo-Microsoft search partn...

In July, the justice bus delivered a load of law students and attorneys to provide pro bono help to residents of Marin County,...

Low-income citizens in need of legal services got free advice this week from lawyers and summer associates who volunteered to ...

Los Angeles personal injury firm Michels & Watkins, which employs a physician on staff, specializes in medical malpractice...

Attorneys in the Southern California offices of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton and Sullivan & Cromwell played key r...

Britain went through a routine similar to the one unfolding between the U.S. government and GM, only to wind up with no automo...

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates meets in Chicago today and Tuesday to consider a host of policy recommendati...

There is a huge unrealized opportunity to save energy starting today if the country could overcome regulatory, financial and c...

California's new rules governing electronically stored information differ from the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, write Dav...

Randy Berholtz, lawyer, businessman and teacher, tries hard to keep aspiring life science entrepreneurs from screwing up. And ...

Some law firms haven't touched their Web site in years—or worse, they don't have one at all, writes Sharon Berman. ...

The Redlands courthouse, which handles probate and traffic cases, will close down on October 12, San Bernardino County Superio...

Giving summer associates pro bono provides them a meaningful experience instead of a treadmill of memoranda, write Brent D. So...

President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jacquelyn H. Nguyen as a U.S. district cour...

Thousands of people each year sell a portion of the annuities they receive as court awards or in settlements to a specialized ...

Earlier in life, William R. Redmond gave tours of Alcatraz as a park ranger and later prosecuted offenders as a deputy distric...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen rises at 2:30 a.m., so he can start lifting weights by 3 a.m. Perhaps lawyers sho...

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...

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

The search for a new U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California is heating up, and so is speculation that a woman wi...

Capitalizing on a budget crisis not seen since the Great Depression, a coalition of community justice and human rights organiz...

Companies working on programs funded by stimulus money must be vigilant in their compliance with the False Claims Act, writes ...

Darrell Forgey of Judicate West says ADR has made him a better listener at work and at home. ...

A court-budget trailer bill that passed the California Senate last week creates amendments to the California Rules of Court th...

Carole Wagner Vallianos, incoming president of the American Judicature Society, says the group would like to see all 50 states...

By a 2-1 vote, the state Court of Appeal Thursday struck down a Los Angeles law protecting grocery store workers from being fi...

In a summer when many law students sat idle at firms for lack of work, 29 summer associates at 14 Los Angeles firms spent time...