In-house attorneys are continuing to draw bigger salaries, but large corporations are employing fewer of them, a survey releas...

A closely watched proposal aimed at paying volunteer court mediators for their services has suffered a defeat by the State Bar...

A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act would amend the regulations implementing Section 7, which requires federal age...

Web Exclusive - The criminal stock options case against McAfee Inc.'s former general counsel went to a jury Tuesday, and seeme...

Top antitrust litigator Robert G. Badal will be departing Heller Ehrman for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's Los Angele...

On privacy grounds, a U.S. magistrate judge granted a protective order blocking satellite television provider EchoStar from fi...

Lawyers for homeowners who claim failed IndyMac Bank cheated them won a quick and potentially significant victory Tuesday agai...

Lawyers for Mattel have asked a federal judge to bar rival toymaker MGA Entertainment from continuing to make or sell the popu...

Tax reform should include a simplification of the process, so everyone can choose a vastly less complicated system with only t...

A new revolution in trying cases is brewing: cognitive science, writes Robert D Brain.

Web Exclusive - Starting today, San Francisco smokers won't find their cigarettes at Walgreens or any other drug store. They c...

When a call to a credit card company is answered by a worker in India, most consumers no longer bat an eye. Companies have lon...

Web Exclusive - The mid-size firm that represented the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and White House intern Monica Lewinsky is...

Web Exclusive - A bill that would have increased funding for community mediation programs by $5 million has fallen victim to t...

Joshua Tree lawyer Kassie Siegel has emerged as the face of the successful effort to get the polar bear listed as a threatened...

Entertainment industry officials Monday hailed the passage of a scaled-down bill that will add an intellectual property enforc...

Protecting political speech is crucial to our democracy, even when such speech occurs inside of a schoolyard, writes Taylor An...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have provided interpreters for high-priority civil cases in Los Angele...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman swooped up Thelen's China practice, taking 20 attorneys from the San Francisco-based firm, Pil...

Sacramento Judge Peter J. McBrien was recently the subject of a recall effort led by angry litigants. Now, he's in trouble wit...

With opening statements barely a week away, famed Los Angeles litigator Thomas J. Nolan of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &...

In rapid succession, with two recent decisions, the California Supreme Court has reshaped the legal landscape for arbitrations...

Despite the successful passage of a bond measure to fix California aging courthouses, Chief Justice Ronald M. George predicts ...

Web Exclusive - The Conference of Delegates voted on a wide variety of issues at this year's State Bar meeting; the subjects o...

Facebook ended months of speculation about who would lead its legal team by hiring a Kirkland & Ellis partner in Washingto...

The fallout from the firing of several U.S. attorneys almost two years ago is in no danger of dissipating after the Justice De...

“It’s really a big game of catch up for lawyers that haven’t been following the green building trend,” said Donald Simon, an e...

U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said he will personally prosecute the Missouri woman accused of creating a fictitious MySpace ...

Even as negotiations over the proposed $700 billion bailout package consumed much of the oxygen on Capitol Hill Friday, the Se...

An uptick in patent applications for garments and a spate of lawsuits over fabric copyrights are a sign that serving these gar...