Cities statewide are similarly trying to rein in legal costs amid plunging revenues in the battered economy. Some municipaliti...
As a young associate for Morrison & Foerster, Ken Siegel helped open the firm's first office in Japan in 1987. Today, the ...
For decades, law firms have remained largely insulated from the economic downturns that resulted in mass layoffs and terminati...
The State Bar has shut down an Orange County personal injury practice after two administrators there were allegedly caught pra...
It took two high court decisions and two appellate rulings, but the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control may have finally ...
In “Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom,” Charles Halpern describes his quest for a more...
U.S. Supreme Court
Ginsburg Has Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer Lesion
By Lawrence Hurleyn
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was treated for early-stage pancreatic cancer Thursday, sparking speculation about her future on t...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Pro Per Inmate Wins Appeal in 'Meals' Case
By John Roemer
A hungry state prison inmate denied meals by a guard achieved a rare win representing himself Thursday at the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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Take a Market Hit? Time to Take Stock of How Lucky You Still Are
By Sara Libbyn
Many lawyers have likely taken big hits in the stock market as of late, but they should leave the complaining to the Americans...
Employers should handle terminations in a way that avoids unnecessarily humiliating the employee and triggering the hard feeli...
Among the myriad programs in the behemoth stimulus bill under consideration in the Senate is a $20 billion plan to erect a nat...
More than 100 former employees of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are filing anti-discrimination claims against Lawrenc...
Selling off a piece of artwork can land museums and nonprofits in a legal storm without the proper due diligence, write Eva Ne...
Former judge Daniel Pratt finds his global travels help him navigate the legal world. ...
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday named several Republicans to her advisory committees that vet judges and U.S. attorn...
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has nabbed two intellectual property partners from Latham & Watkins.
Michael Thorman and Michael Satris are defending alleged gang member Emile Fort on murder charges. Fort and another man are go...
Judge Edward J. King III faces a recall campaign and a spate of violent cases coming to his court. He didn't expect things to...
In October 2007, the chief executive of El Segundo-based International Rectifier Corp. departed amid a damaging accounting sca...
The child health bill passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama Wednesday extends coverage to 4 million uninsure...
A federal program that promised to target fugitive criminal immigrants who posed a threat to national security actually target...
Achieving the goals of California's sprawling new anti-sprawl law, known as SB375, will be real easy. All state officials have...
Under relentless questioning by a civil rights plaintiff's lawyer, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas on Wednesda...
The federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies benefits to gay federal employees' spouses, Judge Stephen Reinha...
Corporate directors normally have unfettered access to company information — except when they are also litigants against the c...
Holland & Knight has taken in a former Thelen partner in the firm's San Francisco litigation group.
Now that he's on the bench, capital case specialist Mark Windham says his compassion has shifted from a single client to th...
An oil company that beat back an Alien Tort Act Claim tops our list of the top defense verdicts of 2008. ...
MacPherson, Kwok, Chen & Heid, an intellectual property boutique with offices in San Jose and Irvine, has agreed to merge ...
The Mental Evaluation Unit, a joint project of the Los Angeles Police Department and the county Department of Mental Health, w...