Judicate West's Thomas Sharkey is one of the few mediators who have an intimate grasp of airplane mechanics. He bought his fir...

Recent guidance by federal and California labor agencies makes it easier for employers to implement shortened workweeks, write...

Class counsel have an obligation to use all available tools to promptly dispose of opportunistic objections, writes Matt C. Ba...

Local crime increases when parolees return to a neighborhood - but those effects can be curbed under the right conditions, a n...

A state appellate court has given a big boost to a $250,000,000 nationwide class action against a subsidiary of H&R Block....

Results of a new public opinion poll shows that Californian's support for the death penalty is slipping. Of 800 respondents, ...

For California law students pondering what to do with their futures, lower-paying government and public interest jobs are sudd...

Despite a devastating economic downturn and a hiring freeze, the Administrative Office of the Courts has continued to hire new...

With a comprehensive strategy for rebuilding our middle class, we can do more than pay lip service to the work of Americans on...

Readers weigh in on malpractice insurance, and California's continuing budget woes.

J. Michael Hennigan, left, and his manager, Jack Smith, at Quail H Farms in Livingston, are in process of harvesting about 60 ...

Billionaire Henry Samueli spent what was likely an uncomfortable Wednesday morning before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...

Unless climate change policy is neutral in terms of its trade impact, there will always be the possibility of disputes over im...

California law firm Garcia Calderon Ruiz expanded its reach in Denver, acquiring a regional shop largely known for its corpora...

No published opinion has weighed in on the split between two cases addressing anti-SLAPP suits, writes Jeremiah A. Ho. ...

Discount retailer Costco Wholesale Corp. and its allies among corporate defense attorneys tried hard to persuade the high cour...

The City of Vallejo has cleared two major hurdles on its road back to solvency, disposing of collective bargaining agreements ...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named a rash of new judges to superior courts this week — in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Alamed...

New SEC regulations may exacerbate the difficulty many mid-tier companies experience in recruiting and retaining board members...

The Writers Guild of America West said it plans to settle a long-running class-action suit brought against the union on behalf...

In "Environmental Litigation: Law and Strategy" Cary R. Perlman compiles an overview of the rapidly changing area of climate c...

Silicon Valley electric sports car manufacturer Tesla Motors Inc. has replaced its general counsel with the former head lawyer...

California will receive $34.8 million from Pfizer Inc. as part of a record-shattering $2.3 billion nationwide settlement to re...

E-discovery continues to be much like the weather: ungovernable, never-ending and sometimes disastrous, writes Fern M. Smith. ...

A California appellate court on Monday upheld a lower court's decision to throw out a $1.5 million arbitration award in a Vent...

Victor Schachter of Fenwick & West in Mountain View represents the California Employment Law Council. He is urging the Ca...

Observers are optimistic about the potential for one of the federal government's programs designed to help banks unload toxic ...

Every time a product is featured on a show like "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Web sites full of fake endorsements and "as seen on"...

A judge has allowed several complaints to move forward accusing a defunct technology company's executives of misleading invest...

In the absence of the Supreme Court's decision it remains to be seen whether business method patents have really been dealt a ...