Attorney Morse Mehrban has settled thousands of "civil rights" lawsuits lodged by a loyal roster of disabled clients against s...

San Jose-based Hopkins & Carley has elected a new deputy managing shareholder.

Jerrilyn T. Malana, the 2009 president of the San Diego County Bar Association, says lawyers must make community service a par...

New Judge Kim R. Hubbard says her elder law background prepared her well for the emotionally wrenching issues in family law co...

Whether a mining company should be allowed to deposit waste into a pristine Alaskan lake sparked sharp divisions Monday among ...

William W. Vaughn, a top litigator at O’Melveny & Myers who successfully defended CBS and its then-anchor Dan Rather again...

California has a head start on clean technology development because of its ground-breaking 2006 law, AB 32, a comprehensive pr...

The tax issues lawyers face over costs in a contingent fee case are surprisingly complex, writes Robert W. Wood. - Focus Colum...

Most of the provisions in the recently passed Proposition 9 only rehash existing laws, writes Antonio R. Sarabia II. - Forum C...

Until so-called fairness declarations are prohibited, rogue lawyers will continue to have the incentive to pay mediators the b...

On the campaign trail President-elect Barack Obama pledged to shut down what he called a "sad chapter in American history." T...

An agreement to settle a suit filed by the National Rifle Association was filed Monday in federal court. ...

McDonough Holland & Allen's former managing shareholder, Gary F. Loveridge, is coming back to the firm after a 17-year sti...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday in a case touching upon the state of California's ability to claim immunit...

A Satyam Computer Services shareholder filed a federal securities fraud class action in San Jose on Monday, the second in an a...

Bullivant Houser Bailey has taken on three of counsel in the firm's San Francisco office.

After Thelen's disintegration last fall, Howrey picked up more than 40 lawyers from Thelen’s construction practice. In some wa...

Richard Briggs' longtime interest in Japan began in 1966 as a college exchange student. For the past 18 years he has been in h...

In refusing to seat Roland Burris, the Senate is acting on the basis of raw power, not constitutional principle, writes Joerg ...

A federal judge told lawyers on Friday in the Countrywide Financial shareholder class action that an earlier order, advising a...

It's clear that the Bush administration frequently used the state secrets privilege and the executive privilege simply to prot...

This past year, the state saw important legislative amendments that pave an easier path for development of alternative energy ...

The next generation of the Internet, called Web 2.0, has arrived, offering firms opportunities to provide much richer, more ta...

The House of Representatives passed two bills Friday making it easier for workers to sue their employers for wage discriminati...

Three transactional partners from Dreier Stein Kahan have joined the Los Angeles office of the Chicago-based business firm Wil...

The torrent of real estate deals that came together in recent years are at risk of falling apart due to the turbulent economy,...

MGA Entertainment has hired a new legal team for the upcoming second phase of its spat with Mattel over the Bratz dolls. ...

Though 2009 might not see as many seismic shocks in the legal world as 2008, it still promises another turbulent, and extremel...

Despite widespread job losses that contributed to the highest unemployment rate since 1993, the legal services industry was on...

For nearly three years, Whittier Law School fought to get off probation with the ABA and won. And now the Costa Mesa school ha...