Proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are an edorsement of mediation. By Benjamin S. Seigel ...

Since California's new paid sick leave law was passed in late 2014, employers have been struggling to understand the law's req...

These clauses provide peace of mind to employers who often want to simply sever all ties with the employee after struggling th...

According to speakers at a State Bar symposium on lawyer ethics last weekend, lawyers must wend their way through a complex et...

A California Supreme Court decision released Thursday attracted the attention of trendspotters interested in seeing whether st...

James R. Mayock, managing partner of E&M Mayock, makes it his business to help small foreign companies open up operations ...

It's back to the future for the state Supreme Court, which agreed to hear a 9-year-old case brought by security guards demandi...

Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt was built from two generations of lawyers, and its leaders attribute most of t...

An unprepared law practice can be thrown into chaos when an attorney leaves the practice of law unexpectedly for death, incapa...

A high school student who pointed a laser beam at an airplane and temporarily blinded the pilot will get a new sentence - and ...

A decision to make permanent a 15-year-old pilot program to build a group of judges with special expertise to handle complex l...

Four lawyers disciplined recently by the state Supreme Court or State Bar Court all got into trouble for not doing what they'd...

It's powerful evidence when a jury hears an FBI agent on the stand saying the defendant's hair matches hair from the crime sce...

It turns out acquiring firms experience better stock reaction to deals in states with so-called universal demand laws. By Yong...

On Tuesday, the State Water Board released proposed regulations to implement Jerry Brown's call to reduce water use by 25 perc...

Jurors found Lawrance Bohm's client Janus Bogdanski was not fired by an El Segundo science company for blowing the whistle on ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a new proposal Wednesday to reduce frivolous patent lawsuits, the strongest sig...

A San Antonio-based food management company allegedly swept into California and laid off thousands of Cocos and Carrows restau...

Local court rules may derail a bid by defendant MobileIron Inc. in the latest infringement lawsuit to grapple with the unclear...

General Counsel of AOptix Technologies Inc. Campbell ...

The putative class action alleges violation of the federal Equal Pay Act after one female attorney said she made 50 percent le...

Federal energy regulators failed to properly scrutinize claims that energy companies overcharged California and its investor-o...

In his second term, Obama has turned his attention to major trade deals, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But is it too lat...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is in the process of poaching the managing partner of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP's Lo...

Joseph L. Dunn's amended complaint claims Beth Jay, the former principal attorney to the chief justice, intentionally interfer...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

Despite Gov. Jerry Brown's renewed commitment to build a judiciary that reflects California's diverse communities, the state's...

Last December, Maryland police officers took two children - ages 10 and six - into custody because they were walking home alon...

The recent deadly "superbug" bacteria outbreak at California hospitals has raised questions about who is responsible for such ...

Matthew J. Maletta will assume an executive vice president and chief legal officer role at the pharmaceutical company, joining...