One-time rock band member and plaintiffs' lawyer Robert M. Tessier changes his career path. ...

After six years chairing the Los Angeles County Superior Court's ADR committee, Judge Helen I. Bendix will step down from that...

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas told a federal corruption jury Thursday that former county sheriff Mike Carona...

No one who had a part in creating the City Charter believed the controller's authority to conduct performance audits would app...

The news about the economy just went from bad to worse - that is, if you are on the losing end of a wrongful termination suit....

A 4-3 majority of the California Supreme Court refused to give a Los Angeles woman who pulled her friend from a car after an a...

USC Gould School of Law has named a new associate dean and chief development officer.

Russ Roeca, chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Marriage Fairness Task Force, takes over as the bar's president to...

Former prosecutor Christopher J. Evans no longer has the narrow vision of an advocate. 'You literally don't care who wins.' ...

Researchers say 750,000 patients traveled internationally for medical treatment last year, despite the fact that courts in pop...

Some of the important lessons from the savings and loan crisis, and even from Watergate, can guide today's plaintiffs' lawyers...

Just in time for the holidays: lawsuits against Christmas festivals and shopper-on-shopper violence, writes John G. Browning. ...

Columnist Martin Berg wonders if a high-profile veteran sex crimes prosecutor committed a harmless slip of the tongue in closi...

A two-year-old copyright infringement complaint featuring some of the world's most famous musicians, two big-name law firms, l...

A federal judge has rejected 17 pretrial defense motions in the Broadcom stock options backdating case, putting the trial of t...

Baker & McKenzie has added a former Heller Ehrman lawyer to its Washington D.C. office.

In March, E. Aurora Hughes was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease. The disease stopped Hughes from practicing law. But she's ...

With Latham & Watkins' announcement that the firm will be freezing associate salaries at 2008 levels for the coming year, ...

Maurice R. Hogan Jr., a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and JAMS mediator, has died after a long battle with Parkinso...

After a drawn-out negotiation guided by lawyers from O'Melveny & Myers and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, French-owned video ...

Attorneys looking to cut costs in a down market should take a cue from successful plaintiffs' lawyers, write Micah R. Jacobs a...

The Commission on Judicial Performance Tueday publicly admonished Alameda judge Christine Moruza, citing numerous cases in whi...

A sharply divided 9th Circuit sent a human rights lawsuit back to an L.A. federal judge for her to consider whether the Papu...

Starting Jan. 1, children covered by Medi-Cal, the state's version of Medicaid, will have to submit paperwork every six months...

Despite all those jokes depicting lawyers as aggressive bloodsuckers, sometimes it's in the client's best interests for attorn...

Coldplay will have to face the music for their mega-hit "Viva La Vida" when they meet guitar legend Joe Satriani in court over...

Edlene McKenzie, the globe-trotting daughter of an Air Force officer, settles in as a family law commissioner on San Diego C...

Winston & Strawn has named three attorneys to partnership in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.

Hundreds of convicted prisoners in California could have the chance to seek new sentences after the U.S. Supreme Court decline...

Sean Farrell, a transactional lawyer and litigator with Manly & Stewart in Newport Beach, is also an adventurer. He says t...