The decision deals a heavy blow to employers looking to use a "failure to conciliate" defense as a backdoor mechanism to undul...

Juries help bring fairness to the justice system, but not every Californian is stepping up when it is their turn to bat. By Jo...

Bette Epstein has something unusual but fitting for a probate mediator: a degree in psychotherapy. ...

Sam was arrested for stealing a two pairs of flip flops from a department store. He was placed on probation, and had to wear a...

Confidence in the judiciary is hard won and easily lost. A recent Supreme Court case should help with the former. By Daniel Br...

Carefully screening your clients is an important first step for attorneys and mediators. By Paul Fisher

A court recently addressed whether attorney billing statements are covered by the attorney-client privilege. By Emily H. Wood

Environmental groups claim state regulators are failing to protect groundwater by allowing the oil industry to continue inject...

Irell & Manella LLP snatched up a pair of entertainment litigation rainmakers from O'Melveny & Myers LLP Thursday. Man...

Heather King joins Theramos Inc. from Boies, Schiller & Flexner in Washington, D.C.

After two years of fruitless negotiations, U.S. Senate leaders from both political parties are bullish that Congress will pass...

Two oil companies will pay the state of California a combined $11.5 million to settle alleged violations of state environmenta...

Attorney Kimberly L. Bick wanted to offer high-caliber legal services at lower rates than bigger law firms charged, so she ope...

Among lawyers disbarred recently, four got in trouble for mortgage modification and foreclosure rescue schemes - including one...

Should we weaken the legislative promise of mediation confidentiality and, if so, in what way? By Rebecca Callahan

State Bar presidents typically tour the state spreading the gospel of court funding, legal services or other high-flying goals...

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Barr Laboratories Inc. may have violated the state's antitrust law when it ac...

A rapid-fire series of headline-grabbing deaths of unarmed men at the hands of police in recent months have made harder work f...

A recent Delaware Supreme Court decision, in conjunction with California broad exceptions to the internal affairs doctrine, ma...

As competition for engineering talent continues to intensify in Silicon Valley, some privately held technology companies are c...

In a 2-1 opinion, the 4th District said a lower court erred in denying jurors instructions on the different states of unconsci...

The chairman of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP will step down at the end of his newly-elected term in December 2016, the ...

U.S. District Judge James J. Donato appears poised to give another victory to law firms fighting clawback cases from the bankr...

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

A former Pacific Gas and Electric Company auditor, whose attorney says the utility "does not do anything about safety," allege...

A federal appellate panel is asking the state Supreme Court for help in deciding whether California consumers must provide per...

AB 1123 will provide a conflict of interest for superior courts who administer DRPA funding.

The 9th Circuit decided en banc that it could not force art sellers or agents to pay artists 5 percent of the sale price when ...

I wonder if Mr. Blair and Mr. Curtis were twirling in their graves as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the same-sex m...

If artificial intelligence constructs can diagnose diseases, then it certainly can notch up analysis of cases so as to improve...