Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says Elena Kagen cannot fill Justice John Paul Stevens' mighty shoes. ...
Movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, weighed down with nearly $4 billion in debt, could get some temporary relief this week if cr...
San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced Wednesday it will no longer be using profits per equity partn...
California Courts of Appeal
Court Castigates Defense in Fee Dispute
By Jason W. Armstrong
A state appellate panel this week strongly castigated an attorney on the losing end of a breach-of-contract lawsuit for fighti...
Diversion of court funds is shortsighted and will worsen fiscal difficulties, says Bob Balgenorth, President of State Building...
Northrop Grumman Corp. may be relocating its corporate headquarters to Virginia later this year, but the company says it will ...
Kathleen M. Sullivan is reminded that she shattered a glass ceiling in Big Law every time she walks off the elevator and sees ...
It may be informal, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Patricia Gillette calls it the two-seater rule: "Most law firms do...
San Diego Superior Court Judge DeAnn Salcido's unusual petition for a writ of mandate - to force her colleagues to impose mand...
Latham & Watkins lawyers led by Menlo Park corporate partner Luke J. Bergstrom and associate Michelle Bushore helped Mount...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association announced Tuesday its ratings of candidates vying for judicial office in the upcoming e...
Two patent holding companies filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York accusing the Allied Security Trust and sev...
A January 2010 legislative change awarding some California prison inmates more custody credits so they will get out of prison ...
A dispute over tens of millions of dollars between actor Don Johnson and three companies with ownership interests in the telev...
Pipe manufacturer JM Eagle has asked a federal judge to dismiss a multi-million dollar whistleblower lawsuit that accuses the ...
CNET Networks Inc. founder Halsey Minor took the stand Tuesday in a case that pits him against auction house Christie's Inc. i...
As one of the largest female-owned family law firms in Southern California, Felicia Meyers of Meyer, Olson, Lowy & Meyers ...
It is unfortunate that so many articles disparage the experience of working at a global law firm, writes Kim Dunne of Sidley A...
Probate
Stranger in a Strange Land: Entering Trust and Estate Litigation
By Sharon Liangn
Civil litigators have many skills to serve them well in trust and estate litigation, but peculiar features of this practice ar...
Christine Ewell of the U.S. Attorney's Office reflects on her challenging career, fueld by luck and hard work, each in some me...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Storm Threatens 9th Circuit Nominee
By John Roemer
Before the Arizona immigration firestorm exploded, U.S. District Judge Mary Helen Murguia of Phoenix looked like a safe Obama ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Cross Case In Supreme Court Was Kagan's First-Ever Win
By Lawrence Hurleyn
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that a cross on federal land in the Mojave Desert could remain standing while low...
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, one of District Attorney Kamala Harris's fiercest critics, spared a few words of pr...
As a lifelong solo small firm lawyer, Nina Marino of Kaplan Marino gave up the comfort and security of a paycheck for control ...
Lawyers headed to trial regularly overestimate their chances of success, and men do so more than women, according to a new stu...
Read our annual list of the state's Top 100 Women Litigators.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan knows exactly what to expect when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for...
Criticized over the leak of a "not qualified" rating given to Appellate Justice Charles Poochigian last summer, the State Bar ...