Find out who passed the July 2008 California Bar Exam in the current issue of The New Lawyer.

Three lawyers are among the newly elected directors and officers of Aids Project Los Angeles.

Judge Alan M. Ahart offers a sounding board to an increasing number of pro se petitioners appearing in his Central District c...

"All of a sudden in the span of four years virtually all our experienced judges are retiring," said Presiding Judge David Rose...

Whether he's put on the spot or coaxing along a ponderous prelim, Judge William H. Kronberger Jr. adapts smoothly to testin...

Responding to the current foreclosure crisis as it spreads from single-family homeowners to displacing renters when landlords ...

Essential to any effective corporate governance strategy is timely, unfiltered disclosure and effective resolution of unethica...

The state Supreme Court has denied review of an appellate decision that had become a cause celebre for mediators concerned abo...

A judge Wednesday granted class status to a group of gays, lesbians and bisexuals alleging discrimination against matchmaking ...

Patience is the key to settling cases, Charles G. Bakaly Jr. has found. ...

The State Bar is taking a second look at two controversial measures to toughen the attorney discipline system, thanks to the s...

Employers must take quick, decisive action to protect trade secrets when an employee leaves to work with a competitor, writes ...

A division of Shell Oil Co. saw its hopes to "drill, baby, drill" dampened on Thursday after an appeals court nixed its govern...

In this current business and economic climate, employers should consider junking the “at-will” rule in favor of employment con...

Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Justice Stuart R. Pollak of the 1st District Court of ...

The prosecution's star witness in the MySpace cyber-bullying case testified that Missouri businesswoman Lori Drew was aware of...

A police officer has won a $3.6 million jury award after he claimed that he lost salary and rank and was kicked out of an elit...

The California Supreme Court narrowly averted disaster this week in an important antitrust case that was plagued by conflicts ...

Public-interest attorneys won a crucial victory Thursday, when the California Supreme Court unanimously rejected an attempt to...

Lathrop & Gage has merged with Los Angeles boutique Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow, marking the Kansas City-based firm'...

In July, Joe Hunt, a former member of the "Billionaire Boys Club," retained Gary K. Dubcoff, pictured, to appeal his murder co...

President-elect Barack Obama will be the first-ever president to be sworn in by a chief justice whose confirmation he voted ag...

Under Obama, lawmakers should simplify public insurance enrollment procedures and cut down on administrative steps that might ...

Behind closed doors Wednesday, the City Council would not approve a $10 million settlement proposed by the city attorney to en...

Firm heartbroken over co-founder’s death. ...

Justice known for ruling in abuse case. ...

Reed Smith snatched a highly coveted, nine-attorney labor and employment group from the dissolving Thelen, including prominent...

Lori Drew “hatched a plot to prey upon the vulnerable psyche of a 13-year-old” by creating and using a fake MySpace account to...