University of San Francisco School of Law grad found herself like many of her colleagues this year with a big firm job offer d...

Stacy Phillips and Kay West of Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra write about the Family Code's treatment of out-of-state tr...

Edwin Reeser, Jeffrey Carr, Patrick Lamb and Patrick McKenna conclude their discussion on partner compensation schemes. ...

Career services offices at law schools, under-utilized by many students in the boom years, are seeing an onslaught of demand f...

Dylan Malagrino of University of La Verne College of Law comments on the 9th Circuit's request to review U.S. v. Comprehensiv...

San Francisco's 100-lawyer law firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin lost four directors in quick succession fr...

Chief Judge Paul Michel announced his plans to retire from the federal bench after more than two decades. ...

Jeremiah Ho of Whittier Law School examines In re Bilski and whether business methods are patentable as a process. ...

A U.S. judge says plaintiffs failed to show that Chase Bank concealed increased minimum monthly payments on credit card loans....

A U.S. judge said Toyota Motor Corp. does not have standing to block a former in-house counsel's efforts to reveal damaging in...

Bar officials said 56.4 percent of applicants who took the July test passed it, a dip from the July 2008 test when a stunning ...

The sloth-like pace of civil litigation concerning ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping operation quickened...

Criminal defendants who want to get out of a plea deal by blaming their lawyer must get permission from the trial court before...

A U.K.-based company whose existence depends on making accessories for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console is suing ...

Los Angeles County Judge Shari Silver often gives lapsed defendants more chances to straighten out their lives. The justice sy...

In this issue of The New Lawyer, six recent law school graduates write about their future in an uncertain legal market, plus f...

The long-running battle over federal funding for legal aid groups has tilted in favor of restrictions on how the groups can pr...

The Halcyon Co., the bankrupt producer of "Terminator Salvation," is preparing to auction the rights to the sci-fi franchise t...

British-American lawyers unite to form Kalisch Rufus-Isaacs to help California lawyers and their clients doing business abroad...

Beth Dorris of Best Best & Krieger comments on how climate change policies are shifting in different directions. ...

Lynne Randolph of the California Dept. of Managed Health Care says the state insurance regulator fights to protect consumers a...

Doomed poultry got no help just days before Thanksgiving from a federal appeals court panel that ordered dismissal of a lawsui...