Upon reading the article "Porn Lawyers Lambasted by Judge Over Trolling," May 8, something occurred to me... By Irwin (Chip) C...

Golden Gate Land Holdings upheld a trial court's decision to allow a public agency to pursue an eminent domain action -...

Perkins Coie added former Blank Rome lawyer Sara L. Chenetz to the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner in the financial tra...

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Peer courts have been a staple in California courts for decades, allowing the punishments for low-level juvenile offenders to ...

On the hunch that most busy lawyers don't spend much time reading social science journals, I thought I'd summarize some of the...

Unlike mediation confidentiality, there is no uniform mediation privilege in the federal courts. By Erica Bristol ...

Curiously, California doesn't tax winners of its own state lotteries, though federal tax certainly applies. However, it does t...

By the end of this month, the ADR Department of the Los Angeles County Superior Court will have closed its doors, officially, ...

A State Bar committee decided on Thursday to delay voting on a controversial proposal that would put a red warning label on th...

In an unusual move, a San Francisco Superior Court judge Thursday issued a directed verdict throwing out a $5.3 million claim ...

In a new wrinkle to local governments' ongoing pressure on Los Angeles regarding the fate of Ontario's airport, Ontario, San B...

The Bar Association of San Francisco and the Marin County Bar Association have teamed up for an annual fundraising drive from ...

Greenberg Traurig held its 6th Annual Women's Business Forum at The Beverly Hills Hotel on April 25. More than 150 guests, inc...

The Court Appointed Special Advocates of Los Angeles hosted their first annual "Evening of Dreams Gala" to benefit foster chil...

A group of black retail workers agreed to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit against their former employer, Wet Seal Inc.,...

Attorneys say mediator Ronald E. White brings flexibility to his mediations, enabling him to tackle cases thought impossible ...

Northridge non profit Child and Family Guidance Center honored attorney Valerie Vanaman of Newman Aaronson Vanaman at the "Cha...

Several hundred women gathered at the Renaissance San Francisco Stanford Court Hotel on May 4 for California Women Lawyers' an...

The firm snagged partner Fernando Villa from Pircher, Nichols & Meeks and associate Scott M. Dommes from professional serv...

An allegedly one-sided fee-shifting provision in a retainer agreement may keep a potential class action against a mortgage loa...

Los Angeles-based litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will venture across the Pacific to open an o...

Members of Reed Smith's Palo Alto office hosted the dZi Foundation's 2013 cycling fundraiser kickoff last week with a ride dow...

Federal appellate judges on Thursday indicated they were inclined to revive a previously dismissed antitrust and copyright cas...

A 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed the dismissal of copyright infringement suits filed by Nevada-based holding...

In celebration of its 60th anniversary, PEN Center USA hosted "Forbidden Fruit: Readings From Banned Works of Literature" on S...

Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley LLP found its calling in the 1970s at the cutting edge of insurance contract law. Represent...

A district judge granted Universal a permanent injunction Thursday, ending a dispute over an unauthorized pornographic adaptat...

After a full day of panels and talks by criminal justice luminaries, four individuals were honored for their outstanding contr...

Menlo Park-based social networking company Facebook Inc. has settled a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Chicago-based T...