Perspective
When It Comes to Arbitration Agreements, Less Is More
By Alexander Phersonn
Employers should limit the terms of their arbitration agreements or risk losing the right to compel arbitration at all. By Dan...
Defense firms complain their plaintiff counterparts are double dipping when it comes to recovery in the still-massive load of ...
Three months into office, Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed dozens of people to various government jobs. But one position has gon...
The private investment consortium California First is suing the state in an attempt to complete its purchase of 24 state-owned...
On May 23, Donny Love Sr. is scheduled to go to trial for the May 4, 2008 early-morning pipe bombing that strewed shrapnel ove...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Will Get $5.2 Million in Settlement
By Don Debenedictisn
The State Bar late Friday asked the State Bar Court to put Michael T. Pines of Encinitas on involuntary inactive status.
Arnold & Porter LLP scooped up a patent litigation team of 13 former Howrey LLP lawyers, four of whom join the firm's Los ...
General counsel for 1-800-Dentist / Futuredontics, Inc. Los Angeles ...
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Compton) ...
Four years after launching their employment law boutique, husband-and-wife team Linda and Woody Gulledge finally were able to ...
Judge Paul D. Fogel's appellate background has made him a meticulous questioner who out-details even the most exacting lawyers.
Robert E. May believes firmly that everyone deserves their day in court - or better yet, around his mediator's table. May has ...
More than 300 members of the legal community gathered to celebrate the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California’s ei...
By Ben Adlin Daily Journal Staff Writer Pepperdine University School of Law unveiled a commemorative portrait of former...
The newly named Japanese American Bar Association hosted an Installation and Awards Gala along with the Philippine American Ba...
Community News
Domestic Violence Project Commemorates 25 Years of Service
By Riley Guerin
The Los Angeles County Bar Association celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Domestic Violence Project March 3 at the Millenn...
Homeowners in San Mateo, Potomac, Md. and Jupiter, Fla. filed a national class action lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior...
Actor Charlie Sheen on Thursday sued Warner Bros. Studio Enterprises and a co-creator of the sitcom "Two and a Half Men" for $...
Mark Roy Anderson, a disbarred Nevada lawyer, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 counts of wire fraud, securities...
Ninth Circuit Judge Mary M. Schroeder announced Thursday that she will assume senior status Jan. 1, 2012. ...
A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed with prejudice the securities fraud class action pending since 2007 against a group...
Cooley LLP suffered a blow to its mergers and acquisitions practice when longtime partner David A. Lipkin announced he is depa...
In the past three weeks, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP has boosted its Southern California ranks by double digits. ...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to unveil a database that logs product safety complaints that critics say c...
San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis Thursday announced her intentions to run for mayor in 2012. ...
A neutral tentatively ordered the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Thursday to release thousands of files of psychiatric records of ...
Why a one-size-fits-all approach to conflict resolution can be problematic. By Matthew P. Guasco of Judicate West. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court to Rehear Grocery, Labor Dispute
By John Roemer
A big win for labor unions last year at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is in jeopardy as the circuit prepares to review...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
How to balance a client's concerns about principles with the basic goals of mediation.