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...

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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 ...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

The San Francisco Public Defender Office hired a civil immigration attorney to assist criminal defendants in immigration court...

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Prompted by state budget challenges, the Santa Clara Superior Court announced late Tuesday that it would close civil, small cl...

Several California groups plan to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to test the dangers of airplane emission...

In the second of two billion-dollar deals announced Tuesday, Latham & Watkins LLP represented Kansas City, Mo.-based healt...

The Barristers Club of the Bar Association of San Francisco presented its Tara L. Riedley Barristers Choice Award to retired 1...

China's three decades of unprecedented development have delivered prosperity and economic opportunity to hundreds of millions ...

A special committee of independent directors at Irvine-based real estate investment trust Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II ...

Graduates of a pair of San Francisco law schools faced a healthy amount of skepticism Tuesday from a judge over whether their ...

While the suits may sound like a loser for the business community, the actions of a few attorneys across the state also concer...