A federal judge's ruling questioned conventional logic for settling class actions and potentially strengthened the plaintiffs'...

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Judge Colleen Sterne's veteran father and the soothing effects of song guide and ground her work.

Graduates from Orange County's four ABA law schools will land spots next year in a solo practice training program run by the L...

Your work for Client A has ended but you have yet to make time to formally disengage from the representation. You should know ...

While the debates over the costs and benefits of a minimum wage increase continue, some constituents urge that more must be do...

Only in the last century have bar associations and state courts sought to monitor whether nonlawyers were engaging in the prac...

The expansion of a Wal-Mart facility in Sonora can avoid review under the state's landmark environmental law, the state Suprem...

Burke Williams & Sorensen was hit with a class action lawsuit by former clients, alleging attorneys at the firm misused a ...

Hobart Linzer LLP is one of the larger legal players in the multibillion-dollar litigation finance industry "west of the Missi...

Arbitration and mediation resemble different forms of music, according to Sochynsky, a veteran neutral who practices both var...

Unpaid lawyers who serve as bench officers in San Francisco County have become a source of disdain for attorneys appearing the...

Drivers who use the ridesharing app claim they are misclassified as independent contractors when they should be paid as employ...

The Landau Lawyers League played their annual All-Star softball games July 27 with both the co-ed division and "A/B" division ...

This is a common problem for the modern attorney: Our offices are so full of distractions that it's virtually impossible to do...

A law professor has collected 2,000 signatures on a petition calling for Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala D. Harri...

After 10 years of litigation, a group of restaurant workers has agreed to settle a wage and hour class action against the pare...

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Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Management-side attorneys see the National Labor Relations Board's recent scrutiny over the wording in employee handbooksrulin...

On July 21, President Barack Obama signed an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT ...

The American Civil Liberties Union has opened an office in San Bernardino to serve the Inland Empire, expanding its reach into...

The move is a recent example of what observers say is the continuing increase of bail schedules statewide, which has drawn cri...

Rocket Fuel's $230 million acquisition of [x + 1] Inc. this week did little to help the Redwood City-based digital advertising...

The patent litigation slugfest between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. took another step toward winding down after...

A federal judge this week tossed a case by the city of Los Angeles against JPMorgan Chase & Co. over the company's role in...

The multiyear proposal, put out by a group of judges and other stakeholders at the behest of branch leadership, is undergoing...

Strategic. Practical. Attuned to the relationship between the courts and politicians. Those traits emerge in California Suprem...

Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Pasadena ...