Superior Court Commissioner Kern County (Bakersfield) ...

Patent holding companies are heading to the U.S. International Trade Commission at an increasing rate, seeking exclusion order...

Retired Judge William C. Pate, a neutral at JAMS in San Diego, uses his 34 years of experience as a litigator and judge to hel...

A collection of up close and personal interviews with top women general counsels. By Michele Coleman Mayes of Allstate Insuran...

Learn the ins and outs of California's Talent Agencies Act. By Michael J. Plonsker of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP ...

What began as a cookie-cutter process has evolved into something that can be crafted to fit any case. By Zela "Zee" Claiborne ...

China is still a long way from providing citizens the types of legal protections Americans take for granted. By Patrick Mattim...

Why the new "CEQA reform" legislation may be more promise than reality. By James L. Arnone and Holly A. Williams of Latham &am...

Bingham McCutchen LLP is moving its Silicon Valley office to Palo Alto from East Palo Alto. ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal confirmed this week that violent sex offenders are entitled to be released on time, even if ...

The liquidation of defunct Washington, D.C.-based law firm Howrey LLP will be placed in the hands of a government-appointed tr...

The lawyers at this Koenig Jacobsen LLP have a deep knowledge of their clients' businesses, going back, in at least one case, ...

Proposition 8 proponents on Thursday appealed a federal judge's order unsealing digital recordings of last year's trial about ...

Local bar organizations have volunteered attorneys to supplement Los Angeles County Superior Court's ADR programs, but impendi...

Just over a year after the devastating Pacific Gas & Electric pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38...

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First California Bank turned a blind eye to years of fraud by a campaign treasurer accused of stealing millions from her non-p...

Gov. Jerry Brown has quietly tapped three judges and seven lawyers to sit on a committee that advises him on judicial appoint...

President Barack Obama has nominated U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Hong-Ngoc Nguyen of Los Angeles to serve on the 9th U.S. C...

Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt endured a Senate hearing Wednesday, but neither his testimony nor that of his rivals are lik...

Posts about the terms and conditions of employment, including job performance and staffing, were not grounds for termination. ...

Whether or not paid sabbaticals count as a form of vested wages isn't an easy question to answer. By Robin E. Largent of Carlt...

Two programs help Holocaust survivors seek compensation for their "voluntary" work during their period of persecution. By Ruth...

Revised California Rule 2.1040 makes it easier to transcribe electronically recorded evidence. By John A. Taylor Jr. of Horvit...

To curb criminal gang activity, we have adopted special sentencing rules and uniquely oppressive correctional practices. By Ha...

While Gov. Jerry Brown has made no public statement on how he plans to approach judicial appointments, a panel convened on Tue...

School teachers are preparing to enter the fight over state laws cutting funding for redevelopment agencies, money that would ...

A novelist has sued his creative partners for producing a film based on his original story without obtaining the rights. The c...

A federal judge has dismissed a putative class action that claimed Apple Inc. and eight mobile media companies wrongly collect...

A San Diego jury has awarded a medical device maker more than $101 million in damages in a patent infringement case over produ...