A policyholder's right to have a jury determine breach and damages is fundamental to enforcing the insurer's duty to provide a...
Business engaged in Web-based advertising should carry general liability coverage as broadly worded as possible to protect aga...
In an excerpt from his 35th edition of "Should Trees Have Standing?" USC law school professor Christopher Stone writes that "e...
The current sex offender residence restriction laws, policies and ordinances should be recognized as a well-intentioned failur...
Political analysts predicted President Barack Obama would tap a safe, easily confirmable nominee to replace the retiring Justi...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge in Toyota Litigation Is Experienced In Complex Cases
By Rebecca U. Cho
The Santa Ana federal judge assigned last week to preside over dozens of sudden acceleration cases facing Toyota Motor Corp. i...
Since childhood, Ana España was transfixed by notions of justice and help for the less fortunate.
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
Craig Griffin, whose father cured him of skipping school with hard labor, lectures theft and DUI defendants.
Hundreds of first- and second-year associates have been left out in the cold through mass layoffs in the downturn, leading to ...
The 1st District Court of Appeal rejected a challenge Thursday to San Francisco Superior Court's policy of having only two jud...
Clearing the way for trial, a federal judge has ruled against The Charles Schwab Corp. again in a class action lawsuit that ac...
Indirect plaintiffs alleging a massive price fixing conspiracy in the market for thin film transistor liquid crystal display p...
The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled 2-1 Thursday that mediation confidentiality wasn't meant to protect communications betw...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named 14 new judges to superior courts throughout California Thursday. ...
Mandatory employment dispute arbitration is not the panacea employers have touted it to be and courts are becoming more skepti...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a discovery law that allows death penalty lawyers to get information used to c...
A public defender who was handcuffed by a sheriff's deputy in her Downey office and forcibly taken to a courtroom to represent...
Deal work has swelled at Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in recent months, placing it among the top 20 legal adv...
The federal criminal trial of former KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz on stock option backdating charges wound down Thursday with a lo...
When C. Robert Jameson went from judge to ADR neutral, he found the transition easier than he imagined - and even more satisfy...
Jeffrey Joseph of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law suggests that an evaluative component to mediation is, in many cases, ess...
After hearing the pitches from districts all over the country, a U.S. judicial panel ruled Friday that the more than 100 feder...
After 15 years of wasteful litigation and real-life soap opera, the fight over J. Howard Marshall II's estate by Anna Nicole S...
The board of directors of the Alliance of California Judges speaks out about implementation of the statewide case management s...
Tamar Gubins of the ACLU says the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, enacted in 1986, has never been revised to accomodate...
Rod Berman of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro discusses the issues surrounding the recent floodgate of false patent mark...
Wells Fargo agreed late Wednesday to overhaul its lending practices and work with borrowers to avert foreclosures to settle a ...
Andre Birotte, the new U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, has embarked on what some in the office have dubbed a "listening tour" bu...