Keying in relationships leads to settlements, Debra Mellinkoff has found. ...

Despite recent calls to oust California judges who allowed same-sex marriage, history shows that successful recalls of judges ...

A lesson for patent litigators: If arguing a client's patent on an infrared camera in a cell phone is being infringed, there n...

The irony of “civil” practice is that oftentimes, some of those who practice it are not, well, civil, writes Matt Valenti. - F...

A federal jury awarded $11.3 million to a quadriplegic man who claimed insurers of an exercise machine company acted in bad fa...

A recent 9th Circuit case suggests that employees who normally live and work in other states may be entitled to the protection...

Given California’s sheer size and energy demands, the California Renewables Portfolio Standard will now stand as the most ambi...

The parent company that owns Macy's and Bloomingdale's will pay $25 million to 200,000 employees who claimed they were denied ...

For all the trumpeting of renewable power in California, few projects are actually being built and the state is falling behind...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed four lawyers to state positions.

A community justice center under construction in San Francisco's Tenderloin District has drawn criticism from several sides. C...

San Diego Judge Luis R. Vargas handles a massive caseload with patience and aplomb. ...

Pharmacists who earlier this year won an injunction against the state's 10 percent rate cuts to Medi-Cal providers are back in...

Facebook Inc., the popular Palo Alto-based social networking site, does not really think it can collect $873 million from a Mo...

One potential juror in the downtown courthouse this week could have claimed without exaggerating that missing work for a long ...

A San Joaquin County judge was none too happy when a prosecutor ratted out opposing counsel for having a 90-day State Bar susp...

Federal agencies have been reluctant to adopt regulations treating nanoparticles differently than other chemicals or pollutant...

Judge spent half his life on the bench. ...

Sheppard Mullin veteran mentored others. ...

The Commission on Judicial Performance's admonishment of a San Francisco judge unwittingly undermines both judicial independen...

The villagers say the company knew reporting the protesters to the Nigerian military was an open invitation for human rights a...

Attorneys who consult the State Bar's ethics hotline be warned: The expert advice might not save you from trouble. ...

Because of the inherent cost advantages of pooled insurance coverage, the European solution to health care is substantially ch...

Lawyer served from Burbank to Botswana. ...

Proskauer Rose has gained a former Heller Ehrman shareholder in the firm's Los Angeles office.

The Orange County Register agreed Monday to pay $22 million to the people who throw its newspapers on subscribers' lawns. In e...

When tension builds in his courtroom, Michael B. Orfield invites opposing lawyers to chambers for a Pop-Tarts break. ...

An earthquake in Southern California was not enough to rattle July Bar Exam takers it seems. Those taking the state's Bar exa...

“The possession or cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes cannot serve as the basis for making lawful the possession or...

Family courts have failed to respond to the change in the nature of family law litigation, on the one hand, while propagating ...