The U.S. House of Representatives sent a bill to President Barack Obama that would allow six judicial districts to participate...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed its previous decision Friday in a patent dispute between medical di...
Marin County officials have uncovered evidence that a former employee accepted bribes in exchange for approving a flawed compu...
California's building industry and a string of municipalities may seek state Supreme Court review of an appellate opinion last...
Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige persuades parties to settle their disputes or else risk the uncertainty of trial, and the strict rul...
Oakland-based public agency law firm Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson announced David Skinner will assume leadership as ...
Theodore C. Zayner feeds on the collegiality of the court.
Former federal judge Lourdes Baird likes the intimate perspective that mediation and arbitration afford. ...
Because of new technology and services, experts say now is the best time ever to launch a law practice, but they also recommen...
Mark P. Poliquin, founding partner with Doug DeGrave of Poliquin & DeGrave in Laguna Hills, was named OC Trial Lawyer of t...
Giving is popular this time of year, but the Inland Empire Latino Lawyers Association took the seasonal opportunity to recogni...
Sephora brings more to the holiday season than glittering nail polish and festive red lipstick. On Dec. 9, the Century City lo...
Perspective
When There Is a Possibility of Conflicting Rulings, Is Arbitration Appropriate?
By Karen Natividadn
Is arbitration the right choice when there is a possibility of conflicting rulings with third parties who have not executed an...
There is good reason to believe the U.S. Supreme Court will not agree that the health insurance mandate is unconstitutional. B...
The new health care law pushes the boundaries of Congress' authority under the Commerce Clause. By Joerg W. Knipprath of South...
In a parting gift to court employees, outgoing Chief Justice Ronald M. George authorized a 3.5 percent pay raise Thursday retr...
An interdisciplinary approach to the challenges posed by the criminal wrongdoing of governments. By Austin Sarat and Nasser Hu...
U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued an order Thursday giving the California Department of Social Services until April 8 t...
The Bar Association of San Francisco held its annual changing-of-the-guard luncheon Tuesday at the Julia Morgan Ballroom to a ...
Los Angeles attorney Allan Marks with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy represented institutional lenders in a $143 million ...
A Sacramento mom filed a class-action complaint this week in San Francisco County Superior Court accusing McDonald's of exploi...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Lawyers Track Electronic Health Data
By Emma Gallegosn
Dosage mix-ups aren't new to emergency rooms, but the electronic systems that many doctors and hospitals are starting to use a...
A San Bernardino County judge opted for prison time for former Rancho Cucamonga Councilman Rex Gutierrez, two months after a j...
State Bar & Bar Associations
S.D. Bar President Youngest in Its History
By Pat Broderick
Passionate about his job as a deputy district attorney in the family protection unit, new San Diego County Bar Association Pre...
A jury recently awarded $6.8 million in a case against the Gaslamp Restaurant & Bar in Long Beach after a UC Berkeley seni...
Famed litigator James Brosnahan won a defense verdict for a San Diego-based company that makes non-lethal weapons and its chai...
A San Jose federal jury awarded just $12,000 to a class of 650,000 bad check writers who alleged they were routinely charged i...
The U.S. Senate confirmed Kimberly Mueller as a judge on the District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramen...