Those who appear before her like the way Margaret Miller Bernal handles her job on Los Angeles County Superior Court. That inc...

Virginia-based Hunton & Williams has added nine partners from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, including one Los Angele...

A former Orange County deputy public defender was sentenced Friday to 95 days in jail for stalking his former girlfriend and t...

For Georgina Torres Rizk, taking a seat on the Superior Court was the next step in a legal career that has spanned almost 35 y...

Before Orange County billionaire Henry Samueli can walk away from the Broadcom stock-options scandal with a large payment but ...

Clif Bar General Counsel Bruce Lymburn found a way to combine his love of business law and real estate law with an environment...

Julian B. Sapirstein decides if mentally ill patients in San Francisco are ready to return to society. ...

Insider Trading: The Next Market Scandal? ...

Under President Bush, immigration courts have been undermined by a judicial hiring process that delayed important work in orde...

Proponents of medical marijuana use received good news Thursday from the 4th District Court of Appeal, which ruled that federa...

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...