A recent Supreme Court decision rejects the notion that all benefit litigation involving insured plans should be reviewed de n...

A bill that would tack $10 on to the yearly dues the state's lawyers pay is headed for the governor's desk. ...

A federal judge in San Francisco dealt a blow to the Bush administration when he ruled last week that the state secrets privil...

The latest financial disclosures filed by candidates vying to replace City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo in 2009 will not be offic...

Internet-based postage seller Stamps.com has licked a patent infringement suit lodged by the inventor of several digital posta...

Through her husband-to-be, journalist-in-training Elizabeth Feffer became enamored with the legal profession. She changed care...

This month, California will begin implementing a statewide plan to desegregate housing at some 30 prisons. The move is part of...

Judge Edward P. Allard III was hesitant about taking on a family law assignment, but his military background and decades as a ...

Ramzi Abadou was a dreadlocked college graduate when he landed his first job as a document clerk at a law firm. Fifteen years ...

When clients become difficult during the discovery process, lawyers must get creative, write Lynn Duryee and Matthew N. White ...

The state Legislature is considering AB 1989, which will expand California's WARN law if passed, writes D. Gregory Valenza - E...

We have the chance now to remake our immigration policy in the modern era by grappling honestly with the fact that the America...

The presence or absence of providing for the recovery of attorney fees by the prevailing party will alter the dynamics of a me...

After practicing in Europe, Asia and Australia, independent mediator Charles B. Parselle makes a home in Southern California. ...

Members of the anti-abortion group were forced to remove a mobile layout of enlarged, early-term aborted fetus photos near a R...

A federal judge dealt a blow to the Bush administration late Wednesday, ruling that the state secrets privilege does not bar a...

With ballot preparation deadlines looming, debate is heating up over an effort to block a November ballot measure aimed at ove...

Los Banos Memorial, a small, rural, 48-bed hospital in Merced County, is strapped for cash and staff. Both sides of what becam...

Donald Currier, secretary of legal affairs and chief counsel at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, h...

Miriam A. Vogel is not retiring. She's just moving on. Eighteen years to the day after she joined the 2nd District Court of Ap...

The mother of the man credited with creating the hugely popular Bratz line of dolls said her son designed the dolls while livi...

After years of battling the American Bar Association over its accreditation standards, a Costa Mesa law school is finally off ...

The government should think more about the collateral effects of investment tax incentives before making them permanent, write...

We should be shocked by the Supreme Court's willingness to distort the text and history of the Second Amendment to ignore the ...

The deadline for a new Screen Actors Guild contract with the major studios passed without an agreement Tuesday, but Hollywood ...

A federal judge in Santa Ana on Tuesday declined prosecutors' request to put Orange County billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III o...

The University of California, Irvine, has been trying to keep its new law school's founding faculty secret until a big announc...

Under pressure from leading lawmakers in Congress, the Justice Department revealed this week that it is willing to revise for...

The Supreme Court ended its 2007-2008 term last week with 11 5-4 opinions, compared with 23 such rulings last term. Justice An...

The former head of Jones Day's Los Angeles intellectual property group, Robert W. Dickerson, jumped to Orrick, Herrington &...