Los Angeles County Superior Court Judges are weighing whether to join court staff in a furlough. They are the only courthouse ...

Two Los Angeles-origin law firms and an investment firm are sponsoring an on-site daycare. Nicole Grannis Adrien, of Oaktree C...

The income partner position is one that allows firms to be flexible with talented people who need more accommodations than oth...

Art Shartis is at the helm of the 57-lawyer San Francisco firm Shartsis Friese. Shartsis, who co-founded the firm in 1975, ha...

A debate over the National Sequoia Forest has catapulted the U.S. Forest Service to the forefront of a new technology-driven s...

Munger, Tolles & Olson partner and civil rights veteran Vilma S. Martinez has been nominated as the ambassador to Argentin...

For defendants, giving a DNA sample is no different from providing a fingerprint or posing for a booking photo, a federal judg...

Shouting slogans and waving signs, hundreds of court workers rallied outside the California Supreme Court Thursday to protest ...

Prosecutors in a federal tax fraud and money laundering case involving the Spinka - a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Hasidic sect within...

JAMS mediator helps shape alternative dispute resolution by taking on oddball cases, volunteering at every turn and honing a s...

Companies that are the subject of civil actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission or other regulatory agencies would be ...

About 3,500 attorneys who work for the state lost a bid Thursday to get the courts to give them a pay raise. ...

Alameda County Superior Court has become the first in the state to conduct layoffs due to the state's budget crisis, with pink...

With its chief executive officer John Roos nominated for the U.S. ambassadorship to Japan, the Silicon Valley stalwart Wilson ...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has proven moderate on environmental issues, siding with both businesses and environment...

Labor lawyer Amy Messigian wonders: Do employers owe on-call workers pay for their off-duty responsibilities? ...

It had seemed settled in California that juveniles' most serious crimes could be used against them later as strikes. But a c...

A fierce prosecutor in his time, Harvey Giss is adjusting to the more passive role of judge. ...

Lawyers whose clients sue a foreign company can avoid the hassle of serving papers overseas by serving the company's American ...

Sotomayor's life and opinions reveal her wisdom in the ways of the world and the ways of the courtroom, writes Maria L. Ontive...

A fellow Spellman High grad, San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association President Niki Solis reflects on the inspirational mome...

A U.S. judge ruled Tuesday that the "choice of law" provision - a clause many cell phone and credit card companies include in ...

The Energy Department is scrambling to help applicants apply for stimulus funds for various cleantech projects, write Peter Bu...

Columnist Martin Berg catches up with the crusading lawyer who fights tough cases for kids. ...

Jones Day nabbed a group of bankruptcy lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, taking at least $5 million in business. The move dep...

The decision to uphold Prop. 8 was both just and unsurprising, but the debate will likely continue, writes John C. Eastman. ...

A grand jury has issued a scathing report on District Attorney Rod Pacheco's management style, saying he clogs the county's ov...

Premature or not, a challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban appears to be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Gay rights...

If you're not happy with the California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8, blame the state constitution. That's...

Quotes from today's historic ruling. ...