Judicial officers must strike a balance between keeping those in the courtroom safe and maintaining a fair trial.

Deborah Peagler, a 49-year-old former prostitute, is serving 25-years-to-life for the murder of Owen Wilson, her alleged pimp ...

Three decades on the bench has given Judge Aurelio Munoz a relaxed demeanor and reflective outlook. ...

A federal judge Thursday nullified a section of California's Proposition 9, approved by voters in November, that sought to lim...

Almost any business can identify ways that, acting with others having similar needs, cooperating entities can perform operatio...

The Senate Judiciary Committee pushed ahead Thursday on long-awaited legislation to reform the U.S. patent system, agreeing on...

Managers and supervisors need to be able to work without fear that making and communicating personnel management decisions pre...

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the nomination of San Francisco litigator Tony West to become assistant at...

In upholding voters' unfettered power to enact discriminatory measures like Proposition 8, the Supreme Court may go further an...

Los Angeles County Superior Court ADR officials together with the Southern California Mediation Association used the court's f...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday selected 23 new trial court judges to fill vacancies statewide, including four each...

Mediator Victoria Pynchon relies heavily on human dynamics in helping parties acknowledge realities they may prefer to avoid. ...

The state budget crisis and fiasco is due in large part to an anachronistic law that requires a two-thirds majority vote in bo...

As the economy has faltered, payday loan companies that are associated with Native American Indian tribes have been marketing ...

If it is true that you reap what you sow, the Milberg firm is in for a particularly bitter harvest. ...

High-stakes litigation arising out of major aviation accidents is fertile ground for pre-emption arguments. ...

Federal immigration officials have held mentally ill immigrant detainees in a little known network of private psychiatric hosp...

Monterey County lost about $20 million when Washington Mutual, one of nation's largest banks, allegedly misled investors into ...

Environmental advocates are hoping to use the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act to initiate dramatic changes to a...

Obama and his environmental team have brought the government out of the Bush dark ages of anti-science. ...

The case of Connie Keel highlights the struggles of battered and abused women. ...

The objective of protecting the private citizen petitioning the governing body for redress of grievances has been gradually tu...

While American International Group Inc. executives who received $165 million in post-bailout bonuses stay largely out of publi...

Drucilla Stender Ramey, executive director of the National Association of Women Judges in New York and the former executive di...

Landmark labor legislation that could give unions an advantage in organizing has hit a possible legislative roadblock despite ...

After raging for years in courts elsewhere in the country, the battle over a controversial database used by health plans to ca...

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday wrestled with the question of whether a conservative group should have been allow...

The 9th Circuit wrestled with the question of whether 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees have enough in common to be certif...

Many in the mediation community questioned the court's finding in In Re Estate of Thottam. ...

Irell & Manella partner Lawrence M. Stone, a nationally recognized tax scholar and professor who built the firm's tax prac...