Orange County lawyer Mel W. Campbell pleaded guilty Thursday to money laundering and helping embezzle $889,000 from Kia Motors...
San Jose-based solar power company SunPower Corp. announced it would enter into a $1.2 billion joint venture with Taiwan-based...
Jones Day secured a win for more than 400 lenders in an appeal by Adelphia that was thrown out Wednesday by the Second U.S. Co...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
A Holistic Approach to Mediating Litigated Cases
By Carla Pinedan
While it is no secret that attorneys who represent parties prefer a mediator with a legal background, mediation involves much ...
A new report estimates that as many as seven in 10 children held in California's juvenile halls suffer from mental illnesses, ...
A sports agent who sued his former agency to void a two-year non-compete clause has been terminated from his new job, calling ...
Perspective
Ninth Circuit Widens Split on Copyright Registration Issue
By Carla Pinedan
The 9th Circuit has finally ruled on what is needed to file suit for copyright infringement, say Mark Lee and Benjamin Shat of...
Discovery wars in the unintended acceleration litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. are starting early - and with particular f...
Law firms and corporate legal departments grappling with smaller budgets are continuing to find alternatives to the billable h...
In "The Living Constitution," author David Strauss challenges originalism while arguing that the Constitution can remai...
Jamie Newbold of Riverside County Superior Court examines the right to civil appointment of counsel. ...
A Sonoma County defendant can still go to trial even though the only witness who could exonerate him for attempted murder was ...
With oral arguments completed, the California Supreme Court will consider use of contingency fee agreements between government...
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday to add two permanent seats to the bankruptcy bench in the Eastern...
Even though he spent his last three years on the bench as a full-time settlement judge, Alexander H. Williams III insists he's...
Rosner, Barry & Babbitt argues that some auto dealerships have been illegally backdating their rewritten sales contracts, ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Unpaid Fines Can Strip Former Inmates of Voting Rights
By John Roemer
States can deny former prison inmates the right to vote until they pay court-ordered restitution fines, a 9th U.S. Circuit Cou...
DC Comics has drawn on four-year-old material that was already raised in court in an effort to undercut a lawyer and clients s...
U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger in Fresno ordered more water to flow from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta to farms an...
In one of what's likely to become a flood of lawsuits against BP over the Gulf Coast oil spill, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & B...
San Diego-based Phage Pharmaceuticals Inc. and parent company, New Technologies Holding Pte. Ltd. of Singapore, acquired subst...
President Obama showcased his support for California clean technology Wednesday, visiting the construction site of a major sol...
Los Angeles officials signed off on a settlement Wednesday that allows several dozen tenants of the 60-year-old Lincoln Place ...
Michael Abraham and Eric Barko of BartkoZankel discuss India's efforts to determine what foreign firms may or may not do on ma...
A hearing to consolidate state court lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. over unintended acceleration led to accusations of fo...