The former employees of San Francisco-based law firm Thelen voluntarily dismissed an $18 million class action lawsuit this wee...
Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker on Thursday asked 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski t...
A federal judge wrestled Thursday with the thorny question of whether a law firm could defend a former technology company exec...
A former Irvine attorney who squandered nearly all of a $2.7 million settlement he won for his class action plaintiffs pleaded...
The class action alleges East Los Angeles Regional Center terminated a common and vital therapy called DIR to close its budget...
The leading maker of a medical imaging drug linked to a rare and potentially fatal disease settled with a San Francisco man, e...
Mediator and arbitrator Deborah Rothman says "litigization" of the mediation process has resulted in less client satisfaction ...
Law firms may have spent the past year scrimping and saving, reducing head counts and cutting costs across the board, but days...
Justice Eileen Moore of the Court of Appeal compares Hollywood's movie industry with the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of rac...
Sue Burrell of the Youth Law Center concludes her piece on the need to increase and expand specialty training efforts for juve...
Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles Federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper Has Died
By STEPHEN LARSON
U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has died, two months before she was set to retire. She was 69. Cooper was undergoing...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday rebuffed an attorney's $871,000 fee request for winning an employment discrimination ...
An Orange County judge has dismissed charges of Penal Code violations against Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey S...
A Sacramento Superior Court judge invalidated a set of contracts Thursday that threatens to unravel a hard fought plan to divv...
Three innocent teens wrongly accused of killing the 12-year-old sister of one of the accused can sue two San Diego County citi...
Patricia Cain of Santa Clara University says a uniform rule for same-sex unions is needed as state action has created a legal ...
Letter to the Editor
Asbestos Claimants Are 'Truly Sick' and Deserve Day in Court
By Sharon Liangn
Gary Paul of Water, Kraus & Paul comments on asbestos litigation in California.
California could soon create a new type of corporate entity that includes social good in its mandate if a 10-attorney working ...
Lawyers say ADR Services neutral Robert Letteau has the quality that makes a mediator shine: He not only listens, but can pers...
Chris Holm of Milbank Tweed explains the benefits and risks for marking "patented" on products as well as the consequences of ...
Northern California-based Fenwick & West lawyers helped privately held Virgin America secure $68.4 million in debt financi...
Repercussions form a $2.2 billion software piracy lawsuit against the Chinese government hit close to home for the lawyers at ...
More than a dozen legal service organizations - many in rural areas of the state - have received a financial boost from the Ca...
Professor Donna M. Ryu of UC Hastings College of the Law will take the bench in the Oakland federal courthouse on March 1.
The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy at Stanford University is hosting a public workshop today to discuss issues involve...
A state appellate court reinstated a lawsuit Wednesday brought against a prominent San Francisco employment lawyer by one of h...
The 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals reversed an immigration court and found whistle blowing against government corruption is groun...
A Ninth Circuit appeals panel played its cards close to the vest Wednesday, not giving any clear signs during oral arguments w...
Neither side scored a decisive touchdown Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the National Footb...
Movie studio Lionsgate Entertainment has emerged as the leading bidder to take over the rights to the Terminator franchise wit...