A number of disruptive legal technologies are emerging that will directly challenge and sometimes even replace the traditional...

L.A. Superior Court Judge Alice Hill has confirmed she's been tapped to serve as counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Depart...

From Polanski to Pellicano to the NFL, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Chad S. Hummel has a courtroom dynamic that's hard to to...

A week after charging a San Francisco attorney and four others with plotting to steal the assets of a missing Palm Springs man...

Having the public confuse your name with that of a tennis or cricket team is one thing. But being confused with a disgraced fi...

Two vacant judgeships on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals are tempting ambitious lawyers and lower court jurists. The lik...

Well-known Straus Institute ADR mediator Lee Jay Berman plans to launch his own training center. ...

A San Mateo County Superior Court judge has awarded $45 million in damages and compensation to a 41-year-old woman who sued a ...

Gary A. Weiner, a veteran mediator and administrator for the state Court of Appeal and the Sonoma County Superior Court, will ...

Lawmakers moved ahead Thursday with unprecedented legislation responding to the political firestorm over the millions of dolla...

Employers must monitor their independent contractors' activities - without crossing the "control" line - to ensure that they a...

Both political parties should work together to assure our troops have court access and a right to basic procedural due process...

The case of the New York Times building proves that those who would live by the redevelopment sword run the risk that the swor...

The California Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for children across the state to be permanently adopted by people who st...

San Francisco restaurant owners asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a recent 9th Circuit decision that allowed the city to go...

An inveterate traveler, Nikki Tolt relies more on her innate people skills and flexible nature than on any orthodoxy in bring...

A little noticed recent appellate ruling means patients who are denied care by a medical group's physician manager cannot sue ...

The California Correctional Peace Officers' Association is suing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state departments to stop two-...

Attorney David C. Frederick has won two Supreme Court cases in recent months allowing state tort lawsuits to go forward even i...

Judge John S. Fisher had mixed feelings about switching to downtown Los Angeles, after 17 years in his hometown court in Van N...

Academic observers have documented one success story after another of hidden toxic chemicals, exposed by Prop. 65 and quickly ...

The Department of Toxic Substances Control's use of a wiki site may serve as a model for other states as they grapple with mul...

Two recent decisions touch on the law governing the protection of the environment and the obligations of insurers. ...

Disgraced Attorney Terry N. Christensen retains MoFo for his appeal of wiretapping and conspiracy convictions. ...

The Wyeth v. Levine decision is a huge victory for patients injured by prescription drugs. ...

The Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine is sure to unleash a tsunami of conflicting standards. ...

The Obama administration withdrew its offer to make Los Angeles attorney Thomas A. Saenz the head of the Justice Department's ...

While the state's landmark law to combat climate change will not take effect until 2012, an environmental law long on the book...

As a designated terrorist organization, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation is not the most sympathetic of plaintiffs. Yet, it ...

The damages provision of the latest set of patent reform bills suffers fundamental flaws that are likely to guarantee failure....