Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann discovered the American Judges Association in 2002 and by the next year...

American service members are not allowed, for the most part, to petition the Supreme Court directly, which deprives them of de...

The Orange County Register will appeal a judge's order that bans the newspaper from reporting any testimony in an upcoming cla...

Lawyers and clients whose relationships begin as professional ones almost always have a better, clearer and more predictable p...

A federal judge denied an adult filmmaker’s motion to dismiss an obscenity indictment, ruling that then presiding Judge Alex K...

A federal appellate court changed the standard for deciding whether the design of a patented invention has been infringed.

Marjorie Knoller didn't say a word on Monday as a San Francisco County Superior Court Judge sentenced her to 15 years to life ...

Few areas of alternative dispute resolution contain more emotion than the burgeoning area of “elder abuse” cases, writes Alexa...

A federal judge on Monday rejected a motion for a new trial by Anthony Pellicano, whose attorney argued that the jury's forepe...

Meting out justice to the 15 LAPD officers accused of misconduct during the May Day melee in 2007 will be the most far-reachin...

Former Rep. Paul "Pete" McCloskey Jr., R-Calif., who ran for president against Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, has annou...

If patent holders are a day late with their applications, they can still file an infringement lawsuit, a federal appellate cou...

Retired Judge Couldn't Stay Off the Bench, even at 93

Mark Holscher a former federal prosecutor now in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis, defends some of the most prominent ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's board has opposed a controversial proposal that would pay mediators who volunteer on ...

What do you do when your job is at stake, management is tight-lipped and rumors are flying that your law firm might dissolve? ...

The Senate passed the long-delayed California budget Friday and the Assembly was expected to OK it before the end of the day. ...

One of the biggest fights in the often strange world of legal gaming is over bingo, a battle that has been fought in court for...

Instead of hiding the black letter law in an ancient case, professors should do something revolutionary — simply tell their st...

Despite adverse publicity about ADA access cases against small businesses, there has been surprisingly little enforcement of t...

Think San Francisco is only full of liberals who love gay marriage? Think again.

Disability law protections must be preserved.

Jones Day Adds Former Heller Partners in SF.

A U.S. judge in Fresno on Friday rejected a bid by the building industry to invalidate a groundbreaking rule that aims to curb...

Witnesses testified last week that McAfee Inc.'s former general counsel, Kent H. Roberts, that he didn't feel right about the ...

Web Exclusive - The billionaire owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press owes nothing to her former fiancé, under an arbitration ...

As it turns out, general counsel are concerned about other things besides rising legal fees.

After half a dozen years litigating for medical and life science clients, the Orange County office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon...

In the wake of Terry Christensen's conviction on felony wiretapping and conspiracy charges, the storied law firm he founded an...

“The law firm business design is to bill by the hour. Until that starts to change, their relationships with clients and abilit...