With charter schools an increasingly popular educational alternative, the state Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed how teacher u...

Miller Starr Regalia, a venerable presence in the Bay Area, looks to Newport Beach ...

Environmental mediation requires a unique combination of approaches, far beyond the classic caucus-only mediations that are st...

An intellectual property company that saw a $612 million trial court judgment in its favor erased on appeal is arguing it was ...

The state Administrative Office of the Courts must pay more than $4 million in a dispute with a construction company, a jury f...

The firm snagged the chairman of King & Spalding's patent initiative, Courtland Reichman, to start the office. ...

Judge Robert Trentacosta took over the San Diego court as the judiciary faces devastating cuts.

Judge Alfred Goodwin has led a storied career on the bench, perhaps enough for a memoir.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped guide Menlo Park-based private equity fund Silver Lake in its agreement to acquire a...

As efforts to expedite litigation over major development projects begin to take shape, opposition is growing not only from env...

Solar City has taken another step forward in its path towards a public offering later this year by filing a confidential submi...

The Northern District's chief judge, James S. Ware, surprised attendees at a conference Saturday by announcing he'll leave hi...

New information to consider when deciding your tactics and strategies during mediation. By Christine Masters of PMA Dispute Re...

Dick Clark Productions Inc. has won a dispute with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association over the broadcast rights to the as...

Two of Southern California's most widely recognized sheriffs went zero-for-two at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, denying pe...

Delegates from community groups, legal aid associations, law enforcement and other government agencies met Saturday to discuss...

MGA Entertainment Inc. filed a brief late Friday urging an appellate court to uphold a $310 million judgment the Bratz manufac...

Given the nearly insurmountable costs associated with bringing a car to market, it is a serious question of whether any ground...

Learn about one of a judge's most potent tools: the power to dismiss. By Hon. Hank Goldberg of the Superior Court of Los Angel...

Robert A. Van Nest seemed to be playing to multiple audiences Monday when he delivered Google Inc. 's closing argument as the ...

A Marin County man was sentenced Monday to 22 years in prison for scamming more than 50 people out of roughly $31 million. ...

State Bar President Jon B. Streeter has announced the members of a task force that will explore whether to require new law gra...

The former president of the Los Angeles Police Commission was a partner at Proskauer Rose LLP. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider whether to retroactively apply its ruling that defense attorneys...

In one of the first cases of its kind, the National Labor Relations Board's San Francisco office has issued a complaint agains...

Rather than shift the power to either side in employment litigation, state justices restored plaintiffs' lawyers to steady foo...

Head of firm's bank and institutional finance practice group moves to Morgan Lewis and co-chair of consumer and financial serv...

Battle-scarred Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, which has lost more than 80 partners since the beginning of the year amid compensation...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Stanley Mosk) ...

Skadden advised Hologic Inc. on its $3.7 billion acquisition of Gen-Probe, a San Diego company that makes medical testing prod...