Recent employment figures at the state and national level indicate that legal services have reached a new level of relative st...

Bankruptcy filings dropped dramatically in California last year, showcasing a rebounding economy, but also less work for attor...

Last week's ruling on the state's high speed rail set the project's opponents back in a big way. The 3rd District Court of App...

Responding to a new expedited deportation program for immigrant children, several civil liberties and immigrant rights groups ...

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

Herbert Levy, a long-serving justice on the 5th District Court of Appeal, is known for congeniality.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter became one of the few judges to rely on the case when he ruled that S&P was required ...

In hundreds of mediations happening every day throughout the country, people are playing games. By Steven G. Mehta ...

The Copyright Act of 1976 allows authors and their families to terminate copyright grants years after they are made "notwithst...

In a move with potential sweeping impact on businesses across the country, the NLRB will name a parent franchisor as a respond...

"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains / And we never even know we have the key" - Eagles, "Already Gone....

Are more addicted lawyers seeking recovery? Statistics don't necessarily support that conclusion. But the need for recovery se...

California bar examinees largely escaped the worst of a computer problem that stymied applicants in dozens of other states una...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP can collect more than $2.2 million in fees even though its own lawyers represented t...

With 18 attorneys in three distinct sub-specialties, Lakin Spears in Palo Alto caters to a broad range of clients. Its attorne...

Barclays PLC and its affiliates were hit with a federal class action lawsuit late Thursday claiming the investment wing of the...

A jury's $17.7 million award this week against a tobacco company is the first of its kind in several years, the plaintiff's at...

Most mediators give the parties in a lawsuit a chance to tell their stories, even when what they tell has little to do with th...

As social media and blogging become more commonly used tools in consumer-facing cases, their pitfalls may also start to emerge...

Jennifer K. Rockwell, chief legal counsel for the California Department of Finance, will be the newest member of the Sacrament...

Nordstrom Inc. tapped Paul Hastings LLP to handle its acquisition of Trunk Club Inc., a deal illustrative of the retail sector...

Donald Sterling's recent comments make for disturbing reading, but the ensuing efforts to force the sale of his Los Angeles Cl...

For years, judges have balked at lawmakers' proposals to control courts. But when the final budget came out in early July, cou...

The state Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of a murderer because a conflicted juror consulted his pastor during the m...

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

Plaintiffs' attorneys cheered an announcement that the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board will treat McDona...

Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that reduces the maximum penalty for a California misdemeanor by one day, so that a m...

In a fresh set of allegations, a grand jury has accused Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of lying to federal investigators durin...

The interpretation of an assault and battery exclusion in an insurance policy means the Roman Catholic Church Diocese of Phoen...