In September, Jose Ledesma was sent to a Southern California immigration detention center, marking the second time in three ye...

Gale E. Kaneshiro's detailed guides help simplify complex felony cases and draw praise from lawyers. ...

A rapidly constricting law firm job market has prompted top law schools such as Harvard to aggressively shop their students to...

Some legal observers said they expect President Obama to steer sharply away from pre-emption through his policy directives, an...

In a blow to Chicago-based Mayer Brown's white-collar practice in Los Angeles, prominent litigators Bryan Daly and Chuck Krein...

The 1st District Court of Appeal recently issued a wakeup call to attorneys: You need to add techniques from the worlds of bus...

Lawyers are often characterized as vultures — and those who scrounge for business following a disaster make that stereotype mu...

Read more about the lawyers who shaped the California legal landscape this year. ...

To put it mildly, 2008 was not a rosy one for the legal industry. Sub-prime woes and the credit crunch tempered the demand for...

It is cruel and unusual punishment to make a Los Angeles man convicted of attempted rape serve 28 years to life for failing to...

A recent appellate case disproves what is often called the "CSI effect" — the perception that DNA evidence is infallible, writ...

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

In a little-noticed order being cheered by the California attorney general, a federal judge in San Diego sent a class-action c...

Davis Wright Tremaine adds a health care partner in its Los Angeles office.

A growing number of green card holders now find themselves trapped in federal immigration detention centers for years while ba...

Doing painstaking research as a Fulbright scholar at Oxford quickly persuaded Judge Elia Weinbach to trade the musty halls...

California's two Democratic senators announced Monday they will use committees to evaluate federal court, U.S. attorney and U....

Distringuishing between jokes and satire for fair use purposes is no laughing matter, Michael Donaldson explains in his new bo...

A case before the Supreme Court could have far-reaching ramifications for employers who rely on pre-Pregnancy Discrimination A...

Earlier this year, Los Angeles lawyer Lee Fink quit his job and moved to Colorado to volunteer full time for Barack Obama. Now...

In the current economic climate it’s getting colder and colder for law firm associates — freezing in fact. On Monday, Orrick, ...

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling Monday makes it easier to move cases out of the Eastern District of Tex...

Attorneys for the dissolving San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman and its creditors gathered at a hearing Monday afternoon to ...

“Everybody wants to beat the U.S. It’s a little thing with them,” says attorney Steven S. Streger, who is trying to form the f...

Lawyers for 20th Century Fox said in federal court Monday they plan to move to block the release of the Warner Bros.-produced ...

The case of a 1970s coastal housing development is a stunning reminder of why people despise government regulators, writes Gid...

Whether it's a goldfish or a vicious dog, law enforcement has the right to know what kinds of pets probationers are keeping, t...

Bakersfield-based Klein, DeNatale, Goldner, Cooper, Rosenlieb & Kimball willset up shop in Fresno, effective Jan. 2, focus...

California is being hailed as a trendsetter for its ambitious plan to combat climate change by slashing greenhouse gases, but ...