With the down economy, laid-off lawyers are eager to start over in solo practices with space that doesn't require long-term le...

The state Supereme Court will significantly compromise its integrity if it decides that same-sex couples aren't allowed to mar...

A "family office" model can be the best way to manage the wealth of entertainers. ...

The Obama Treasury Department needs to take a lesson from plaintiffs lawyers and cut through the AIG bonus baloney, Columnist ...

The state of California wants to remove the receiver overseeing California's prisons and replace him with a special master who...

A recent 6th District ruling will simplify pleading and put IP lawyers and business litigators are on the same footing when it...

Immigrants facing deportation because of crimes they committed long ago cannot rely on two common post-conviction challenge pr...

Legislatures and government agencies have stepped in to regulate digital marketing. ...

It's time judges stopped wringing their hands about the ethical sleaze of judicial elections and adopt rules to take money out...

Reinstating the Fairness Doctrine may or may not be a good idea ("Many Hope to Bring the Fairness Doctrine Back From the Dead,...

Long before the current recession, Douglas Ingram began trimming staff as general counsel of health care and pharmaceutical co...

Tom Perez, a former high-ranking U.S. Department of Justice official, is headed back to the department, this time as head of t...

Jeff Bleich, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, immediate past president of the State Bar and a die-hard fan of Presiden...

The settled complaint, filed in federal court in Santa Ana last week, marks a third company in Southern California whose execu...

Using foreclosures for this mortgage mess is like cutting glass with a hammer. ...

Litigator Valentine Hoy, 49, left Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps after 24 years, where he represented businesses, inves...

Two Los Angeles residents who shared a Rancho Palos Verdes home with relatives running a brothel have lost their bid to cash i...

Attorneys in an antitrust class action suit against television networks and cable companies have gone "all in" - in poker spea...

Allowing D.C. to have a vote in the House is plainly unconstitutional. ...

The deep economic recession that has ratcheted up demand for restructuring work is making bankruptcy lawyers a very hot commod...

The recession is providing firms a chance to exercise new clarity of thinking when it comes to firm structure and hiring. ...

A state appellate court shot down on Friday a Santa Clara County judge's attempt to revamp the state parole board, which has b...

Loma Linda Medical Center is told it must pay $5.8 million in damages to a patient and his wife for a botched back surgery. Th...

Lawyers defending beleaguered mortgage lenders have received a life line from a federal judge in Santa Ana who cast one compan...

Courts use a sliding-scale balancing test when determining the "forseeability" of certain crimes. ...

Lee Smalley Edmon is poised to be elevated to presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2011. She will be th...

Hustling for business is more important than ever. ...

Justice Douglas P. Miller has won over even one-time adversaries with his professionalism and impartiality. ...

From the brink of delinquency to a Harvard Law School graduate dedicated to public service, Orange County Superior Court Judge...

With some popular weight loss procedures losing their patents soon, like LAP-BAND surgery, there is a rush to find the next bi...