Jayne Kim was an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles when the bar brought her back to lead its discipline office, a 70-atto...

Mediator Phyllis G. Pollack calls herself an "equal opportunity beater-upper." ...

A story of systemic union corruption and organized-crime racketeering over several decades. By James B. Jacobs of the New York...

When an Internet comment turns into a screenplay - who owns the rights to it? By Nickolas Solish of Bryan Cave LLP ...

The mediator's proposal can please the parties or leave them terribly upset. By Matthew P. Guasco of Judicate West ...

A recent First Amendment ruling will likely have significant impacts for public employers and employees nationwide. By Laura W...

What is little known about Judge Howard M. Swart was his arduous road to the judiciary. By Randolph A. Rogers of the Los Angel...

The Department of Corrections has paid $2.25 million to settle negligence allegations brought by the family of a teenager who ...

A federal jury has convicted a Marin County entrepreneur of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion after a month-long tr...

For the Newport Beach-based business litigation and intellectual property law firm of Schiffer & Buus APC, one case was en...

Wind energy advocates are applauding a proposed bill to renew the production tax credit, a subsidy that helps finance renewabl...

Two dance instructors who claim they came up with the idea for reality television hit "So You Think You Can Dance" have reache...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has bolstered its project finance and renewable energy practice with the addition of Ba...

The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday voted to approve another investor-owned utility power purchase agreemen...

Internatonal Court of Justice Judge Joan Donohue sees an important part of her role as educating the legal community and the g...

A state appellate court upheld a Riverside city ordinance banning storefront medical marijuana dispensaries, declaring state l...

Briefing is under way in the appeal of iconic actor Don Johnson's $51 million award in his suit against the producers of "Nash...

Technology giant Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle class action litigation alleging that it failed to pay o...

Gonzalo P. Curiel, who battled drug cartels as a federal prosecutor and now sits on the San Diego County court, has been nomin...

Court administrators this week sent "urgent" requests to judges and lawyers around the state asking them to provide specific e...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday didn't show much sympathy for redevelopment agencies fighting the Legislature's effort to...

On Tuesday, San Diego County Board of Supervisors honored five San Diego County deputy district attorneys for their outstandin...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Center for Civic Mediation, in association with The Rutter Group, held its 6th ...

Sedgwick LLP’s Los Angeles office hosted “The Shops at Sedgwick” event on Nov. 3. With clothing and jewelry vendors displayin...

Last Friday, UCLA School of Law hosted a speech by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The eve...

The California Law Academy at Wilson High School had its first mentoring meeting on Nov.2. The program is sponsored by the Cal...

On Saturday, volunteers from the San Diego Bar Association teamed with judges from the San Diego Superior Court to hold a beac...

A month into realignment's rollout, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matthew Cate talks about how it's g...

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for XOMA Ltd. Berkeley ...

Whether you like him or not, this jurist lives by his own terms. By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm ...