The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision upholding a personal right to own guns is a good example of how appellate courts have...

Most mediations center around justice, money and relationships.

The governor errs in relying on the Supreme Court’s decision in White v. Davis to support his proposed reduction of state empl...

Lisa Gilford, a litigation partner with Los Angeles firm Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, was appointed pre...

Lawmakers are about to recess but they haven't considered proposals to increase judge salaries and add a number of judgeships ...

A federal judge has cemented a $2.3 million settlement between the city and hundreds of homeless residents who say police and ...

Three California Supreme Court justices Thursday urged the Legislature to take another look at the state's whistleblower law, ...

Employers can save time and money by doing compliance assessment and proactive planning before getting sued, writes Nancy Yaff...

A roundup of the final events at the 9th U.S. Circuit's Meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Two Perkins Coie partners in San Francisco jumped ship this week to form their own labor and employment and commercial litigat...

Atlanta-based Alston + Bird entered California with a bang Wednesday. It announced a merger with Los Angeles' 83-attorney West...

Making a career of mediation is difficult even in the most litigious and metropolitan counties. But as Robert Fairman's dilemm...

Trends in fire science were on the docket at the 9th circuit annual conference Wednesday in a National Interagency Fire Center...

Web Exclusive - An environmental group opposed to plans for a large Wal-Mart store in Yucca Valley sued local government offic...

Does what happen in mediation stay in mediation? That's what the state Supreme Court recently had to decide, writes Joel McCab...

With thousands of Thai and Cambodian troops amassing, and facing each other just a few feet apart with their weapons leveled, ...

In a bid to force the U.S. government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from planes and oceangoing ships, California and se...

Web Exclusive - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a Santa Clara County attorney can be sued for ...

Web Exclusive - Doctors in California who accept Medi-Cal payments have been dealt a blow as a judge denied an injunction that...

Companies that turned over confidential documents to the government during the U.S. Justice Department's Thompson Memo era sho...

The attorney for MGA Entertainment cites a 9th Circuit decision saying a single juror's bias is enough for a mistrial in tryin...

We cannot simply ignore known, effective answers to the single largest greenhouse gas problem in the state and still hope to a...

Bingham McCutchen has strengthened its corporate practice with the hiring of James J. Thompson, a corporate and private equity...

Senators appear no closer to a solution over the tricky issue of formulating what performance royalties Internet, cable, and s...

Arthur “A.B.” Culvahouse, chairman of Los Angeles-based powerhouse O’Melveny & Myers, faces controversy in his bid to lead...

The elephant at 9th U.S. Circuit's conference here is the muted presence of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. Looming large is the mi...

The subject was executive power and the question for a panel of authorities at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ annual j...

California's Attorney General Jerry Brown took aim at corporate giant Nestle Tuesday saying the environmental review for a lar...

A 2005 case appeared to slam the door on a party’s right to move for reconsideration. Now, a new case has cracked that door ba...

The capacity to capture information about someone does not necessarily mean that privacy is threatened, writes John Nockleby. ...