“The Supreme Court has spoken loud and clear and full that equal services are for everyone in California,” said Lamda Legal la...

Class representatives deserve extra compensation for bearing burdens not shared by the other class members; it is only fair th...

The clear lesson of a recent 9th Circuit case is to file notices of appeal by hand and not to rely on the mail, write Richard ...

Lawyers doing business in China should brush up on the cultural intracacies that play a huge role in business transactions the...

Superior Court Judge Alexander H. Williams III is about to take his first job ever in the private sector. ...

A Mexican man, imprisoned for a year when a vehicle he bought from the U.S. government was found loaded with marijuana, has be...

Web Exclusive - The State Bar filed a response to a lawsuit that seeks a racial and ethnic breakdown of the test scores and ac...

Federal trial judges can probe the makeup of the government's notorious No-Fly List, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...

As assistant presiding judge for Ventura's criminal courts, Kevin J. McGee said one of the biggest challenges these days is ...

An 82-attorney New Jersey insurance defense firm will open a San Francisco office.

D.A. Dolores Carr told a State Bar court that while Deputy District Attorney Benjamin Field's conduct may have fallen technica...

Lawyers like trying civil cases in Judge Richard B. Wolfe's Los Angeles courtroom. They say his respectful attitude and willin...

Many courts long have recognized that an insured’s failure to comply with a notification provision is not an absolute bar to c...

The defense team for attorney Terry N. Christensen began calling witnesses Friday, starting with a phone technician in an effo...

Since the 1970s, Kaiser Permanente subscribers have been barred from exercising their constitutional right to a jury trial whe...

After 12 years at Latham & Watkins’ Orange County office, corporate partner Jonn Beeson jumped to Jones Day’s Irvine offic...

Although the Supreme Court has repeatedly said that “children do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate,...

About two months out of the year, Los Angeles attorney Lee T. Paterson wakes up to the gobbling of wild turkeys poking for bug...

In a bid to drive down the potential damages exposure for MGA Entertainment in the Bratz doll case, a financial expert testify...

California's dependency courts are under pressure and lack the resources to do an adequate job of protecting foster children a...

A bitter legal struggle between Fish & Richardson and a former attorney it accused of betrayal because he allegedly used h...

Karen Cottle is no stranger to the high-tech industry. For the past 12 years, she has been working in-house for leading Silico...

In another test of the state's mediation confidentiality statutes, an appellate panel has ruled that a signed chart drawn up i...

Lawrence Irving likes to begin his mediations by asking the parties: “Do you want to shoot the lizard in the head, and stop th...

When former journalist Anita Busch testified at Anthony Pellicano’s first wiretapping trial, the private eye conducted a grues...

Thanks to a rarely granted attorney fee incentive, a Los Angeles plaintiffs' lawyer has an extra $66,600 in his pocket. ...

The ability of counsel to bring a motion for attorney fees after successfully litigating violations of the Fair Employment and...

Less than a year after upholding the right to protest at shopping malls, the California Supreme Court took on another importan...

In the wake of the state Supreme Court's recent 'Edwards' decision, releases should be drafted to clarify that relevant non-wa...

This week's federal appellate court decision provided a very significant victory for the open source industry, writes Mark Rad...