Guidelines for disciplining lawyers may get a slight overhaul, as State Bar leaders voted Friday to gather public input on pro...

In a petition filed with the Sacramento County Superior Court, the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation called for swift action b...

Legal analysts say the Disney subsidiary's subpoena of Google about an "Avengers" movie trailer leaker is a rare move. ...

Before the tenure of departing Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of wiretaps was generally relegated, as if by gentlemen's...

After being hit with seven CEQA lawsuits this summer, the state is looking to the federal government to declare the massive ra...

California can sue the maker of a fetus gender test kit for false advertising even though buyers of the kit already settled a ...

Cancer-stricken Justice Paul Turner keeps a full caseload while waiting for a liver transplant.

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Michael Williams didn't start a legal career until middle age, but now he's on the bench.

Gov. Jerry Brown's lieutenants first contacted Mariano-Florentino Cuellar about a seat on the state Supreme Court in 2011. Thr...

Moore, a mediator with IVAMS Inc., is known as experienced, persistent, and someone who works hard to help parties reach a res...

Could the CEO of a California-based company be forced to file a wrongful termination action only in Delaware if his employer a...

The focus on private prison companies as the source - or even the salient representation - of all evil in American incarcerati...

Outsourcing can be an integral tool in an attorney's toolbox to provide efficient and cost effective legal representation to a...

The Landau Lawyers League held it's 9th annual Fall basketball all-star games and 5th annual skills challenges last Thursday a...

Excitement about China's rapidly growing film industry has been tempered by new conerns of censorship. ...

While traditionally, neutrals have been retired judges or former senior partners from private firms, a new crop of mediators a...

Experts are divided over the future repercussions for both bar and bench of Wednesday's decision from the U.S. Court of Appeal...

A new booklet describes red flags that lawyers can watch for to keep from getting tangled in a client's money laundering schem...

After more than two years of work, the State Bar on Thursday moved a step closer to requiring that California law students gai...

LA based lawyer becomes the first practicing attorney to win property rights award ...

A Long Beach man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors and banks ou...

A Sacramento County lawyer dinged by a federal judge for using stolen emails in cases involving two clients got no help from t...

What should happen to a teenage girl who keeps getting into fights at school? To a 12-year-old caught selling drugs? To a boy ...

Where's the money? Despite state officials' early efforts to speed $3 million in new grant funds to nonprofits aiding unaccomp...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Privacy statements and written response protocols have become one of the yardsticks by which the FTC measures "deceptive" onli...

As we celebrate this year the landmark 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, few realize that the seeds of that hi...

Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP on Wednesday announced that Senator-Elect Robert M. Hertzberg of the San Fern...

In an effort to preserve the coastal city's local character, voters in Malibu approved a controversial land use ordinance Tues...