Climate change is spawning new rules and regulations, as well as the inevitable threat of litigation - and it is carving out n...

A recent 9th Circuit decision has potentially made laying off public employees a daunting task, write Richard C. Bolanos and C...

Looming state budget cuts that could dissuade doctors and pharmacists from treating the poor and elderly will face their first...

Nearly everybody in the Southern California mediation community knows the face of mediator Geoff Sharp but not too many have m...

Is it reasonable to keep a front lawn in arid Los Angeles lush and green? ...

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski has hired prominent criminal defense lawyer Mark C. Holscher, the Daily Journal has learned. ...

Kevin Enright reveres the law profession and gives it his all as a San Diego County Superior Court judge. He expects lawyers a...

Plexiglas frames an Air Force One flight jacket in Orange County Superior Court Judge James E. Rogan's chambers. ...

Bankruptcy Judge Ernest Robles is prepared to hold court wherever he happens to be, using cameras, phones and the Internet to ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced several major developments in its battle on mortgage fraud Thursday, including the forma...

SAN DIEGO - With a unanimous vote, the Port of San Diego Board of Port Commissioners recently approved the adoption of a trans...

In a victory for workers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an employer or insurance company that administrates an em...

As several recent cases demonstrate, although the subject matter cases involving lews acts can be quite inflammatory, courts g...

Business lawyer Richard Blasco took his construction law firm, formerly called Hunt, Ortmann, Blasco, Palffy & Rossell, to...

Retired Santa Clara County Judge John Flaherty does what he loves in retirement — settling cases. ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's board of trustees Wednesday decided against taking a stand on a controversial resolut...

It's time for SAG to put its full efforts into crafting the best deal it can get, rather than try to derail the AFTRA primetim...

When an employer declines to undertake an employee's defense and a third-party suit proceeds to judgment, the employee's indem...

Those who decry the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees would do well to heed Benjamin Franklin's admonition: "They...

When the Lakers need a last second basket, they look to league MVP Kobe Bryant. Behind the scenes, when team executives need h...

"Whiting-out" a date stamp on a fax. Blocking file names on a computer hard drive. Asking employees through e-mails to keep th...

Handing a win to California businesses, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday struck down a state ban on private employers using tax...

A former Morrison & Foerster attorney has joined six-attorney family law boutique Phillips Jessner, uniting with four othe...

Employees have a right to expect some privacy for their text messages, a federal appellate court held Wednesday. ...

For the first time in 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court held that a midday radio broadcast of George Carlin's "seven dirty...

The California Supreme Court should overturn the 4th District Court of Appeal's recent 'Greentree' decision and instruct lower...

Rik Toulon, an entertainment and media partner with Katten Muchin Rosenman since 2001, has joined CBS' new film production div...

An appellate court on Tuesday upheld a jury's verdict from last year that millionaire real estate investor Alan Casden owed no...

California lawyers were deeply involved in last week's Google-Yahoo advertising deal, which could bring in as much as $800 mil...

Last month, Peggy Rodgers mediated a small claims case between Barbara Black and Dennis Truitt in a hallway at the Los Angeles...