U.S. Supreme Court
High Court Reverses 9th Circuit Pregnancy Bias Ruling
By Lawrence Hurleyn
In a win for business, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that AT&T Corp. could not be held liable for failing to grant pe...
Personal Injury & Torts
Chrysler Seeks To Shed Liability In Bankruptcy
By Catherine Hon
Bankrupt automaker Chrysler LLC is seeking to emerge from Chapter 11 having shed liability for past and future injuries occurr...
A Superior Court jury has awarded $50 million in punitive damages on top of $300 million in actual damages to a Los Angeles ve...
Victoria Pynchon recounts an encounter that reminded her of the power of human connection and transformation. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
February Bar Pass Rate Dips to Seven-Year Low
By Amy Yarbroughn
Despite an extremely successful run this past July, test takers who sat for the California bar exam in February logged the low...
Legal search consultants Valerie Fontaine and Roberta Kass map out job options for the seasoned lawyer.
Rupa Bhandari, associate director for career development at UC Hastings College of the Law, offers 10 career paths for law stu...
Corporate Counsel
Cruise Control: Princess Cruises' G.C. Keeps it Legal on the High Seas
By Rebecca U. Cho
From keeping an eye on sea piracy to traveling to Italy for labor negotiations, Princess Cruises' general counsel Mona Ehrenre...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Disbarment Sought for Bybee, Others
By John Roemer
An activist coalition said it will today seek the disbarment of former Bush administration lawyers who wrote memos authorizing...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Supports Court Closures, Furloughs to Save Money
By Amy Yarbroughn
The State Bar Board of Governors welcomed its new president Friday and gave its endorsement to a plan to close courts statewid...
Regardless of where you are in your associate career, now is the time to begin building a book of business, writes Sharon Berm...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Two Cases Will Test the Limits on Locking Up Juvenile Offenders
By Sara Libbyn
The Supreme Court will weigh the appropriate sentences for juvenile offenders, writes Scott W. Howe. ...
Though the names of several women are circulating as possible Supreme Court nominees, professor Jonathan Shapiro would like on...
The dynamics of profit contribution by non-equity partners are significantly different to that of associates, writes Edwin B. ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Antitrust May Be Back in Fashion, but Plaintiffs Could Be on the Sidelines
By John Roemer
While the Obama administration has pledged to renew federal crackdowns of anticompetitive corporate behavior, federal laws res...
In the wake of the Obama administration's call for crack cocaine sentencing reform, federal prosecutors in California's Centra...
Former defense powerhouse Melissa Widdifield pushes defendants in her court to make strides and the state to support their pro...
Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading "The Power of Prop. 36" and answering the questions that follow.
Lawyers and judges alike should know the basic principles of anti-SLAPP litigation, writes Dennis M. Perluss.
In just two years on the bankruptcy court in Orange County, Judge Robert Kwan has seen an explosion of cases as the economy ha...
John Keker exerts near-total control over business at his firm, Keker & Van Nest. Daralyn Durie, the ambitious protégé he ...
California Courts of Appeal
AG Poised To Change Immigration Appeals Rule
By Sandra Hernandezn
In testimony before Congress Thursday, Attorney General Eric H. Holder appeared poised to reverse a last-minute Bush administr...
The Employee Free Choice Act represents a crucial measure to turn the tide and enable unions to regain their rightful place in...