The five federal-judge panel charged with choosing the venue for more than 100 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. appears to ...
Marilyn Huff has not hesitated to make unpopular decisions.
Attorneys for the Poway Unified School District have filed a notice of appeal of a federal court ruling that the district viol...
When President Barack Obama signed the landmark health care overhaul into law this week, he also handed over 30 million new pa...
A second electronics company has agreed to settle claims that it conspired to fix prices in the market for liquid crystal disp...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld verdicts that Cupertino-based attorney did not violate an employee in...
Barbara Reeves Neal has worn many hats in her 37-year law career. So the JAMS mediator and arbitrator prides herself on being ...
Labor/Employment
Responding to 'the Nibble' In a Wage and Hour Context
By Sharon Liangn
Max Factor III of PMA and Scott Van Soye of Kane Ballmer & Berkman say, when a small demand is made to better one party's ...
Riverside's former police chief pleaded guilty Thursday to one misdemeanor count of drunken driving and was sentenced to three...
Jonathan Cole and Susan Baker of Nemecek & Cole advise on what it means when an attorney approves a document "as to form a...
Areva Martin of Martin & Martin says the plan to eliminate the use of private banks for government subsidized student loan...
A man who claims to have been duped by video game retailer GameStop has sued the company, accusing it of advertising supposedl...
The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that a city ordinance prohibiting the solicitation of funds at Los Ang...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Let a Global Audience Decide Your Dispute
By Sharon Liangn
A Web site that lets you air out your differences anonymously and receive third party feedback may be a useful dispute resolut...
With April 15 fast approaching, watch out for these tax preparer mistakes, writes David Howard of Hoge Fenton Jones & Appe...
Rules that make it harder to send freed California inmates back to prison for alleged parole violations survived the state's c...
The White House nominated Melinda L. Haag to be the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California yesterday, as h...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Plaintiffs' attorneys are hoping to persuade a federal judge today that Charles Schwab broke the law when it increased a fund'...
Washington, D.C.-based Arent Fox plans to open a Northern California office initially focusing on intellectual property law an...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Price of Beauty in the Game of Trust
By Sharon Liangn
Make a conscious effort to overcome bias since our brains are hardwired to distrust those not like us, write Max Factor III of...
Michael Carroll, Joel Mack, Jared Johnson and Marc Campopiano of Latham & Watkins advise on the draft "renewable electrici...
The price of settling securities fraud class action lawsuits rose more than 27 percent on average in 2009 over the previous ye...
Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno of the California Supreme Court on Wednesday explained the sly strategy used to persuade Go...
Los Angeles County will repay prosecutors who were charged extra for health care premiums because they were union members in l...
Senate Republicans blocked a hearing Wednesday for UC Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to the 9th U.S...
More than 65,000 state employees affected by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's furloughs can immediately return to work on the days...
Jason de Bretteville of Sullivan & Cromwell explores the relevance of evidence of economic coercion as a defense to the Fo...
Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis and Daniel Garrie of ARC say technology has made the discovery process far less human. ...
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday took up the complex issue of whether a company can sue in federal court for alleged damage to...