Centurion Mediation, a new mediation firm formed by a former litigator and a former bank executive, is up and running in Los A...

In August, Judge James Robertson II of San Francisco Superior Court began consolidating asbestos cases without a motion from a...

The Daily Journal's Top 75 tell what it takes to be a woman litigator in 2008. ...

A veteran San Francisco litigator discusses the recent creation of the Consumer Attorneys of California's first women's caucus...

Sacramento defense lawyer Robert Lorbeer fumes that disabled plaintiffs seem to make a fortune suing businesses for minor viol...

Though not rocket science, negotiation does require preparation, patience, street smarts and a sufficient degree of candor, wr...

It is not far-fetched to wonder whether the current Supreme Court would reach the same conclusion on interracial marriage as t...

Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont, a lawyer, was named majority leader Tuesday of the California Assembly by new Assembly Speaker Kar...

Public Counsel will hold its annual William O. Douglas fundraising dinner tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel. ...

A Federal Circuit decision is casting a new hue on obviousness analysis for chemical compounds, writes Pauline Farmer-Koppenol...

As Heller Ehrman's chairman prepares to move to New York in hopes of growing the East Coast offices, a prominent New York part...

Joey Bishop's live-in companion has sued two lawyers at Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble, Mallory & Natsis, as well as the fir...

With no end in sight to the longtime legal standoff between HMOs and hospital physicians over billing practices, state officia...

The U.S. government has sued an infomercial impresario for allegedly welshing on a deal to have federal inmates staff his call...

Torrance Judge Eric C. Taylor is satisfied in trial court but colleagues say the 45-year-old jurist would make an excellent ch...

In their own words, the honorees offer their views on how far women have come in the law profession - and how far they have ...

Jordan Yospe, former general counsel for Mark Burnett Productions and founder of The Brand-Aide Entertainment Group, has joine...

Prosecutors can't be booted off a case just for pursuing a book or movie project inspired by true crime, the California Suprem...

As supervising judge for the remote Lancaster court, Thomas R. White deals with the challenging gang trials and prisoner cases...

Farm workers who sued claiming they were required to taste unwashed, pesticide-laden grapes for sweetness and were denied meal...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an antitrust appeal by a California smoker who argued that cigarette prices were sky...

Some insurers are now seeking to use the technical measure of giving precautionary notice as a basis to assert the prior notic...

DLA Piper's San Diego office has gained another partner from Heller Ehrman. Craig Andrews, the former managing partner of Hell...

Floyd Landis is famous for his speed in time trials, but when the world-renowned cyclist found himself in arbitration fighting...

The Los Angeles City Council is set to take up the controversial patient-dumping ordinance on Wednesday that supporters say wo...

Crippled by the recusal of four justices, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it could not act on a high-stakes appea...

When will Democrats realize that the key to winning the election is to get Mexican-Americans to believe that the party won't t...

Marc A. Becker, a commercial litigation partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, has joined litigation powerhou...

Judge Donald Cole Byrd's ties to the Willows community go back generations. ...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Orange County office has nabbed three more lawyers from the Orange County office of Morrison &a...