Timothy G. Williams, a name partner at Berger & Williams LLP who represents both employees and businesses in complex litig...

A year into the Central District's direct assignment program, 43% of civil litigants keep cases with magistrate judges, signif...

The celebration recognized excellence in trial advocacy across multiple practice areas while spotlighting a charity that suppo...

Close-knit legal and behavioral health networks may be helping rural counties implement California's new mental health court m...

Los Angeles, Santa Monica and L.A. County face mounting litigation, pension and budget pressures that raise the prospect of Ch...

UCLA is asking a Los Angeles judge to halt Pasadena's lawsuit over Bruins football at the Rose Bowl, arguing the stadium agree...

Plaintiffs' attorneys are increasingly sidestepping arbitration by filing so-called "headless" PAGA cases that omit individual...

The bar association dates to 1955, when Black attorneys in the Bay Area banded together to confront discrimination in the cour...

The governor filled vacancies in Kings, Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara, Shasta and Sutter counties, elevating four commissio...

Mounting wildfire liabilities, sexual-assault settlements, revenue losses and soaring legal payouts have intensified concerns ...

The state projected 7,000 to 12,000 Californians would qualify for CARE Court, yet from October 2023 to September 2025 courts ...

A group of prominent law professors has asked the state high court to probe a Nevada County prosecutor's alleged use of AI-gen...

Justice Donald B. King, a pioneering force in family law, transformed divorce and custody practice through mediation, scholars...

Juveniles at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall have been forced to urinate in bags due to low staffing, prompting a court inquiry ...

The San Francisco Superior Court says talks with union representing deputy court clerks have reached impasse after union membe...

Advocates claim the EPA's delays on state air quality plans have allowed dangerous ozone pollution to persist in the West Moja...

JAMS opened the doors to its new Los Angeles Resolution Center on Thursday evening, unveiling a redesigned space built for the...

Mitchell Beckloff mediates with an effective balance of kindness and candor, lawyers say.

A judge denied sanctions against Lewis Brisbois, finding their lawyer client's intervention and reconsideration motions--stemm...

State privacy agency blasts federal proposals to block AI regulations as Washington considers sweeping limits on state tech en...

USC denied allegations by Gould School of Law professor Camille Rich, who claims the university mishandled her reports about a...

The company's challenge to Wachtell Lipton's fee for enforcing Elon Musk's Twitter purchase ended abruptly Wednesday with a di...

Innovation Technologies Partners sued Hulu, alleging infringement of eight patents covering targeted advertising, data collect...

Fox's decision to move to BD&J ends a lengthy tenure at Lewis Brisbois, where he served in multiple leadership roles and t...

L.A. County won dismissal of Alex Villanueva's defamation claims after a judge ruled the action arose entirely from protected ...

Despite objections from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal judge allowed states - includ...

San Francisco settled for $5 million with Pilot Thomas Logistics, ending litigation over a diesel spill. The company dropped i...

A federal judge signaled he may hold Los Angeles in contempt for failing to meet settlement reporting obligations on homelessn...

Advocates say the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is more than two years overdue in acting on a 2023 proposal to list the owl a...

Jurors found Equinox discriminated against a trainer with a hip condition, awarding him $32.2 million in one of this year's la...