Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

The Baha'i religion has guided Judge Dorothy Nelson, an early proponent of mediation.

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Across California, enrollment for ABA-accredited law schools was down nearly 9 percent this year and likely will fall further ...

STAAR Surgical Co. , a Monrovia-based medical device developer, has hired a new general counsel, the company announced Thursda...

A group of San Bernardino County parents filed an unusual suit Thursday seeking to force the Adelanto School District to relin...

California attorneys are advising homeowners associations to try to sever themselves from local neighborhood watch groups in t...

The state's campaign finance watchdog agency took the first step Thursday toward tightening regulations and expanding disclosu...

President Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act into law on Thursday, a measure that will deregulate the process by which certain ...

The battle between the Obama administration and the U.S. House of Representatives over the Defense of Marriage Act attained a ...

The San Diego County Water Authority has gone on the attack against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as part of i...

Unresolved Occupy Wall Street complaints could make the Oakland Police Department vulnerable to the imposition of a court-app...

Mullen & Henzel LLP may have only 23 lawyers, but in small-town Santa Barbara, that makes it one of the community's larges...

Land use lawyers are grappling with client concerns over the recent addition of the International Green Construction Code, the...

Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Jamie Jacobs-May, who joined JAMS last year after retiring from the bench, view...

A call to action: despite decades old laws requiring equal pay for women, a disparity remains to this day. By Patricia Sturdev...

Perhaps Obama should have kept quiet, but he's hardly the first president to speak his mind. By Douglas W. Kmiec of Pepperdine...

As calls to reform the California Environmental Quality Act continue to grow, developers are up in arms about a recent appella...

Make sure that you're not giving away your valuable ideas when making a pitch. By Thomas S. Rubin ...

Solar project developers looking to build on California's farmlands have caused a statewide clash over the development of pr...

Viacom Inc.'s billion-dollar cyberspace copyright infringement suit against Google Inc.'s YouTube video sharing site got new l...

On March 16, the Daily Journal held a roundtable discussion with lawyers on our list of top verdicts in California for 2011. R...

Sedgwick LLP’s Los Angeles office recently hosted a Women’s Forum event that included a tour at the Fashion Institute of Desig...

The Mediation Society at Loyola Law School presented the discussion “Tales of Success and Failure in Mediation” with the Honor...

California Western School of Law Dean Steven R. Smith received the Law Library Justice Foundation’s Bernard E. Witkin “Educato...

On March 29, the National LGBT Bar Association held its Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award Reception at the Standard Hote...

New federal regulations for swimming pool access under the Americans with Disabilities Act have heartened some disability righ...

Lytro Inc. General counsel Mountain View ...

Judge Arthur Lew was a crime TV fan as a child. Now, he presides over real crime cases.

Overlapping state and federal antitrust laws allow claims to grow exponentially with the number of links in the supply chain. ...