Before Justice Goodwin H. Liu scolded his colleagues in March 2014 for allegedly abusing the harmless error doctrine, the stat...

The Daily Journal could at least have done its homework in the recent article on the South Coast Framing case. ["Workers' comp...

The Fair Employment and Housing Council recently adopted significant amendments to the California Family Rights Act regulation...

The Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act will take effect July 1. By Amy Jensen ...

PAGA was enacted to assist an overburdened government agency police Labor Code violations. Now, the same statute threatens to ...

Many businesses use hashtag marketing campaigns that encourage social media users to post with the campaign tag. But can a has...

Ellen Pao will appeal the ruling of her failed gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against venture capital firm Klei...

San Diego Superior Court Judge Esteban Hernandez likes to explain things in a simple, fatherly way.

Intel Corp. relied on legal teams from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Gibson Dunn, & Crutcher LLP in a $16.7 billion a...

Five electronics manufacturers have agreed to pay $528 million to settle a class action alleging the price fixing of cathode r...

Safeway Inc. has warded off patent infringement allegations and secured a defense judgment after a federal judge deemed a plai...

Though California health care entities saw their share of incidents in recent years, health care compliance attorneys say they...

More than 16 trusts and estates attorneys including eight partners will jump from McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP to start thr...

Alameda County Judge Alison Tucher, once a prosecutor and IP lawyer, deftly handles family court

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

AB 15 proposes adding torture, genocide, extrajudicial killing, and other new claims to the civil code. Attorneys would have 1...

Retired Judge Kathryne Ann Stoltz's otherwise fine article has two errors: First, the article cites criminal cases as to wheth...

Programs like Obama's prosecutorial discretion programs are not new ideas. By Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia ...

New rules - so-called "quickie" or "ambush" election rules - stack the deck in unions' favor when trying to organize a work fo...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is moving into Shanghai with the addition of Samuel G. Williamson, a former federal ...

Corporate counsel are using fewer law firms than they were 15 years ago, according survey results collected from more than 300...

The former general counsel of Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. has sued the research company in what he calls a "classic case of whis...

She was a giant on the federal court in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years, ruling on major complex litigation and civil rights i...

The Natural Resources Defense Council has sued the state Department of Water Resources alleging it is violating state laws as ...

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

San Diego County Judge Bloom is known for helping find the middle ground in otherwise bitter battles.

Attorneys who appear before LA Commissioner Kristi Lousteau say she is like a favorite professor.

A three-way fracas among trial judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers broke out before the state Supreme Court here Thursday ...

Mediation offers an incredibly high success rate because there's less formality and more opportunity for each side to express ...

With broad bipartisan support, focused legislation designed to rein in frivolous patent litigation by so-called "trolls" is ex...