The number of people representing themselves has jumped around the Bay Area as foreclosures swamp the region. ...

Firms of all sizes report they're scaling back the budgets of summer associate programs. Most strikingly, the virtual guarante...

Soon-to-retire Justice David H. Souter quietly repudiated the judicial views of one of the female judges some believe should r...

President Barack Obama may have steered California and the auto industry off their legal collision course Tuesday by announcin...

Responding to a wave of financial fraud cases, Congress has passed bipartisan legislation giving homeowners, investors and fed...

For the second time in two months, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday that banking giant JP Morgan Chase ...

Current federal trademark law does a relatively poor job of addressing the issue of keyword advertising, write Rami S. Yanni a...

Proposals for a new state constitutional convention would enable the electorate to achieve change in one fell swoop, writes St...

A lawyer for billionaire Kirk Kerkorian in a renewed child-support dispute with his ex-wife has been disqualified from the cas...

After Monday's ruling in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, the standard for addressing the adequacy of a complaint got a lot more comp...

Jumping ahead of similar proposals by the state Administrative Office of the Courts, Los Angeles County Superior Court officia...

Counsel should carefully monitor a client's trademark portfolio to ensure that no misstatements were made to the Patent and Tr...

A recent ruling significantly impacts corporations that sue former employees and competitors for misappropriation of trade sec...

Eastern District U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan returned to the court three years ago, after about 20 years in the U....

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

Consumer class-action lawsuits are alive and well in California after a 4-3 decision Monday from the state Supreme Court, writ...

USC Gould School of Law professor Jean Rosenbluth offers tips on writing. ...

Most law school students are taught that nothing good comes from three strikes. But for UC Hastings College of the Law graduat...

In this issue of The New Lawyer, we explore avenues for lawyers who are trying to find work. Plus, find out who passed the Feb...

Dozens of regional and national law firms, including some with a significant presence in California, have announced similar de...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will not hear a challenge from two California counties seeking to invalidate t...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Oxford Gene Technology Ltd.'s contacts in California involving th...

We still haven't resolved the issues stirred up by the O.J. Simpson trial, columnist Martin Berg writes. ...

Web sites should be graded for compliance with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act the same way Los Angeles restaurants are ra...

Senior Bush administration officials are off the hook for sweeping actions taken to round up suspected terrorists following th...

A State Bar Court judge said Joseph G. Cavallo engaged in "moral turpitude warranting discipline" because he paid bail bondsme...

Beyond their own backyard, studios and independents alike have always had a soft spot for shooting in the United Kingdom, writ...

The Legislature has resorted to misleading half-truths and outright lies to promote Prop 1D, which would raid the piggy bank o...

Even if an insurance carrier does not have a duty to defend an uninsured party, it may have a duty to pay for the costs of tha...