Businesses and legal advisors are huddling in an effort to survey and adapt to what's changed in the world of corporate govern...

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees for the J. Paul Getty Trust Brentwood ...

Re: "Scrutiny grows over truckers' listing as employees or contractors," April 2. By Ronald W. Novotny ...

Re: "Report: fewer judges disciplined in 2013," April 2. By Erica Yew ...

The law declares that "access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business is a fundamental and necessary ri...

In a federal appellate clash over flash memory cards for mobile devices, a major electronics company scored the right Friday t...

San Francisco Judge Teri L. Jackson oversaw criminal cases for a decade before taking a civil post.

Defense lawyers in one of the so-called Colonies corruption case in San Bernardino County are celebrating a federal judge's re...

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

Passion and drive have propelled Elizabeth Guerrero Macias to the Orange County bench.

Attorneys say Alameda Judge Scott Patton is contemplative and doesn't make decisions on the fly

The retired judges who are placed in temporary assignments around the state operate in a program praised for helping Californi...

In many cases, clients will find the agency's settlement demands are unacceptable and instead will conclude that litigation is...

In the region that's been dubbed the "Wild West" of California, San Bernardino County district attorney hopefuls have waged a ...

The LA Law Library presented its weighty Beacon of Justice Award to 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice H. Walter Croskey on ...

Dispute resolution provider Judicate West closed 2013 with festivities marking the group's 20th anniversary. Neutrals and staf...

A federal jury Thursday awarded $30 million to Neurovision Medical Products Inc. after finding NuVasive Inc. infringed on Neur...

Irell & Manella LLP partner John Hueston was the trustee who oversaw claims by states, cities and the Navajo Nation in wha...

The federal charges brought against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. this week for the 2010 fatal pipeline explosion that devastat...

President Barack Obama tapped Central District U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. Thursday as his nominee to replace U.S. Distri...

Loyola Law School honored professor Therese H. Maynard by awarding her the William G. Coskran chair during a ceremony on March...

Scores of Inland Empire lawyers and judges gathered in Ontario last week to honor California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Saka...

Three years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court redefined the willful blindness doctrine in a patent case, the white collar crimi...

The State Bar next month begins a close review of its standards for punishing lawyers in discipline trouble. A special task fo...

Using an increasingly popular tactic in employment law, a spurned Silicon Valley executive complained that former employers N...

Inmates released under a 2012 voter initiative to soften California's three-strikes law have dramatically lower recidivism rat...

The trusts and estates litigators at Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise say the complicated, sometimes emotional nature of ...

The first time Lee Jay Berman mediated a settlement, it was between two sisters in their 80s who had not exchanged a word in 2...

As lawsuits over General Motors Co.'s ignition problems pour in, speculation about whether the automaker will be protected by ...

A recent case tests whether a hiring bonus based on a book of business built during marriage is divisible upon divorce. By Mit...