California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris lost her first attempt at using a 2003 law requiring companies to provide their p...

Federal weapons research lab Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC wrongfully terminated five employees in its 2008 layoffs...

An en banc panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down a highly anticipated ruling Friday t...

Workers who earn piece rates rather than hourly wages can sue for missed rest breaks, an appellate panel ruled, ordering class...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP represented Vernon-based designer denim company True Religion Apparel Inc. in its $835 ...

Menlo Park-based Facebook Inc.'s top legal counsel announced Friday he will be departing the social networking giant less th...

Los Angeles County deputy public defender Luis J. Rodriguez was the only one who threw his hat in the ring to become the agenc...

After nearly a year as a judicial nominee in the Northern District of California, William H. Orrick III's wait to join the fed...

The only civil judge in Yolo County, Daniel P. Maguire juggles cases that run the gamut.

In Judge Laura Priver's courtroom, social media use during jury trials is no laughing matter.

I have been very impressed by Dean Rachel Van Cleave's leadership at Golden Gate University, but I was disappointed by the lac...

One lawsuit and two bills now before the state senate address California's largely unexplored transgender civil rights laws. ...

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of The Cheesecake Factory Inc. Calabasas ...

Upon reading the article "Porn Lawyers Lambasted by Judge Over Trolling," May 8, something occurred to me... By Irwin (Chip) C...

Golden Gate Land Holdings upheld a trial court's decision to allow a public agency to pursue an eminent domain action -...

Perkins Coie added former Blank Rome lawyer Sara L. Chenetz to the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner in the financial tra...

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Peer courts have been a staple in California courts for decades, allowing the punishments for low-level juvenile offenders to ...

On the hunch that most busy lawyers don't spend much time reading social science journals, I thought I'd summarize some of the...

Unlike mediation confidentiality, there is no uniform mediation privilege in the federal courts. By Erica Bristol ...

Curiously, California doesn't tax winners of its own state lotteries, though federal tax certainly applies. However, it does t...

By the end of this month, the ADR Department of the Los Angeles County Superior Court will have closed its doors, officially, ...

A State Bar committee decided on Thursday to delay voting on a controversial proposal that would put a red warning label on th...

In an unusual move, a San Francisco Superior Court judge Thursday issued a directed verdict throwing out a $5.3 million claim ...

In a new wrinkle to local governments' ongoing pressure on Los Angeles regarding the fate of Ontario's airport, Ontario, San B...

The Bar Association of San Francisco and the Marin County Bar Association have teamed up for an annual fundraising drive from ...

Greenberg Traurig held its 6th Annual Women's Business Forum at The Beverly Hills Hotel on April 25. More than 150 guests, inc...

The Court Appointed Special Advocates of Los Angeles hosted their first annual "Evening of Dreams Gala" to benefit foster chil...

A group of black retail workers agreed to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit against their former employer, Wet Seal Inc.,...

Attorneys say mediator Ronald E. White brings flexibility to his mediations, enabling him to tackle cases thought impossible ...