The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled 2-1 Thursday that mediation confidentiality wasn't meant to protect communications betw...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named 14 new judges to superior courts throughout California Thursday. ...
Mandatory employment dispute arbitration is not the panacea employers have touted it to be and courts are becoming more skepti...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a discovery law that allows death penalty lawyers to get information used to c...
A public defender who was handcuffed by a sheriff's deputy in her Downey office and forcibly taken to a courtroom to represent...
Deal work has swelled at Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in recent months, placing it among the top 20 legal adv...
The federal criminal trial of former KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz on stock option backdating charges wound down Thursday with a lo...
When C. Robert Jameson went from judge to ADR neutral, he found the transition easier than he imagined - and even more satisfy...
Jeffrey Joseph of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law suggests that an evaluative component to mediation is, in many cases, ess...
After hearing the pitches from districts all over the country, a U.S. judicial panel ruled Friday that the more than 100 feder...
After 15 years of wasteful litigation and real-life soap opera, the fight over J. Howard Marshall II's estate by Anna Nicole S...
The board of directors of the Alliance of California Judges speaks out about implementation of the statewide case management s...
Tamar Gubins of the ACLU says the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, enacted in 1986, has never been revised to accomodate...
Rod Berman of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro discusses the issues surrounding the recent floodgate of false patent mark...
Wells Fargo agreed late Wednesday to overhaul its lending practices and work with borrowers to avert foreclosures to settle a ...
Andre Birotte, the new U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, has embarked on what some in the office have dubbed a "listening tour" bu...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced Friday his intent to retire at the end of the current term. ...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
The pilot season has been busy for talent lawyers because major networks have ordered a lot more scripted shows. Industry cons...
A piece of land owned by his famous ancestor could have changed Superior Court Judge Gerrit Wood's life.
Reggie Cole was scheduled to be released from Calipatria State Prison on April 6 after serving 16 years in prison for a murder...
Maura O'Connor, a partner in the downtown Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw, has been elected to a one-year term as chair of...
A Newport Beach lawyer who once chaired the Orange County Democratic Party will be arraigned Friday along with a client for at...
At the urging of two dozen major law firms, the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday endorsed the notion that one lawyer'...
A lawyer who forged a Los Angeles federal judge's signature on a court order must spend six months in jail and six months in h...
Oscar-nominated actor James Woods opened American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference Wednesday wi...
The Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee refused a Republican request Wednesday to delay UC Berkeley School of L...
The window is starting to open for venture capital-backed biotechnology firms to enter the public markets or merge with other ...
Steven Pearl of The Pearl Law Firm considers how a 'powerless' mediator, one who cannot entice the parties or offer special in...