Focus Column – By Russell B. Hill and Jesse Mullholland – A pair of federal rulings breathes new life and vigor into the “firs...

Forum Column – By Judith Golub - The current immigration debate is long overdue because reform is vitally needed. But the gran...

Irell & Manella has denied wrongdoing stemming from a lawsuit filed in April by Charter Communications saying the firm mad...

CALIMESA - There's no road to it, so for a year a finished, state-of-the-art middle school has stood empty - landlocked in a f...

Seventeen years after the murder of an Iranian academic on a Paris street, a federal appeals court has ruled that the slain ma...

A lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed Wednesday accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of facilitating torture of ...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran prosecutor Thomas O'Brien will be selected as the next U.S. attorney for the Central District of Califor...

Working on pro bono projects or cases can be rewarding or miserable for junior associates at law firms. Some junior associates...

Cellular Phone - Simply put, this single device (along with your bar card) could get you hired. Which is the point, right? And...

With the increasing pace of partner moves, practice group acquisitions, spin-off firms, and law-firm mergers, today's lawyers ...

There is no one way for a lawyer to develop business. At my firm, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, many of the partners ...

People say law school doesn't teach you anything. Anything you can use, anyway. Those same people tell you to forget your hou...

"How do you defend those people?" It's a question that sooner or later every criminal defense lawyer must field, and I've hear...

Being a trial lawyer once was widely viewed as a noble calling. Remember Clarence Darrow and Thurgood Marshall? Remember Atti...

Tax law is one of the most interesting and dynamic areas of law. Tax is a broad discipline with numerous subspecialties, inclu...

When I was a law student at UCLA in the early 1980s, renewable energy was in its infancy.However, there were signs, such as en...

Some lawyers allege that companies are trying to skirt California’s employee-friendly laws by binding their employees to settl...

Newly admitted attorneys likely will have a long to-do list as they begin their legal career in upcoming months, and for those...

You have completed law school. You graduated. Congratulations! It's a huge accomplishment, and you should be very proud. ...

Consider the story of the young goldfish who leaves the confines of his or her "school" and finds a new place to swim: a well-...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to take up an appeal by California prosecutors who sought to reinstate the...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Five hundred million dollars is a lot of money, even for Microsoft Corp. But that's the amoun...

Letter to the Editor - Since taking office, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has worked to rebuild and strengthen...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The ability to seek fees from one’s spouse in a family-law case encourages fees to escalat...

Focus Column - By Steven L. Feldman, Steven L. Crane and Sasha N. Brower - The 9th Circuit has set new parameters for how coun...

Richard I. Roemer, a prominent civil lawyer who founded a chapter of the American Inns of Court in Riverside County, died Frid...

A federal appeals court Tuesday reinstated an employment-discrimination lawsuit brought by a woman who claims she was passed o...

Plaintiffs’ attorney Christopher Dolan is known as a “street fighter” and isn’t afraid to take long-shot cases. A recent $61 m...

WASHINGTON - A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that employees cannot use a landmark civil rights law to sue ov...