Land use lawyers are grappling with client concerns over the recent addition of the International Green Construction Code, the...

Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Jamie Jacobs-May, who joined JAMS last year after retiring from the bench, view...

A call to action: despite decades old laws requiring equal pay for women, a disparity remains to this day. By Patricia Sturdev...

Perhaps Obama should have kept quiet, but he's hardly the first president to speak his mind. By Douglas W. Kmiec of Pepperdine...

As calls to reform the California Environmental Quality Act continue to grow, developers are up in arms about a recent appella...

Make sure that you're not giving away your valuable ideas when making a pitch. By Thomas S. Rubin ...

Solar project developers looking to build on California's farmlands have caused a statewide clash over the development of pr...

Viacom Inc.'s billion-dollar cyberspace copyright infringement suit against Google Inc.'s YouTube video sharing site got new l...

On March 16, the Daily Journal held a roundtable discussion with lawyers on our list of top verdicts in California for 2011. R...

Sedgwick LLP’s Los Angeles office recently hosted a Women’s Forum event that included a tour at the Fashion Institute of Desig...

The Mediation Society at Loyola Law School presented the discussion “Tales of Success and Failure in Mediation” with the Honor...

California Western School of Law Dean Steven R. Smith received the Law Library Justice Foundation’s Bernard E. Witkin “Educato...

On March 29, the National LGBT Bar Association held its Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award Reception at the Standard Hote...

New federal regulations for swimming pool access under the Americans with Disabilities Act have heartened some disability righ...

Lytro Inc. General counsel Mountain View ...

Judge Arthur Lew was a crime TV fan as a child. Now, he presides over real crime cases.

Overlapping state and federal antitrust laws allow claims to grow exponentially with the number of links in the supply chain. ...

Justices peppered both sides with tough questions Wednesday in a state Supreme Court case over whether charter cities can exem...

Problems with compensation guarantees to partners at Dewey appear to be more widespread than initially reported. The firm is ...

California's three strikes law casts a wide net that has caught an unexpectedly wide range of criminals; it's time to reform i...

A San Francisco federal judge put the brakes on an effort to widen a one-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 101 that runs through an...

Insurance companies in asbestos cases say they've long been excluded from objecting to deals made between defense and plaintif...

A Northern District law clerk has successfully appealed the denial of health benefits for his same-sex spouse. ...

San Francisco-based Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP helped win a settlement of more than $220 million for its Australian government c...

The city of Costa Mesa's charter resolution will not appear on June's primary ballot. ...

Not only might U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy decide the fate of the Obama administration's health care law, th...

It's not always intentional when prosecutors violate their discovery obligations, sometimes they simply fail to do the job rig...

The U.S. Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. could clarify its now-mysterious views on fed...

In a highly unusual move in an epic case over Alameda County's disputed right to ban guns on county property, a 9th U.S. Circu...

Superior Court Judge Carol K. Ash has earned much praise for her even-keeled personality.