During extended negotiations, lawyers and their clients frequently encounter situations where they seem to disagree completely...

The secret settlements' hall of shame keeps growing. Starting in the 1930s, asbestos manufacturers kept hidden the health risk...

All Americans have an "inalienable" right to privacy. This right extends to privacy in personal or confidential information th...

LOS ANGELES - The Criminal Justice Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association has honored Judge Leslie W. Light, the mo...

LOS ANGELES - Southwestern University School of Law has honored two professors, appointing them to endowed chairs. The law sc...

LOS ANGELES - Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two lawyers from the Los Angeles office of Squire Sanders & D...

While the withdrawal of the opinion letter was viewed by some as a change in the state's position, it was more of a tempering ...

Local lawyers pick their favorite judges. ...

It is time for the family law bench to enforce the rules concerning ex parte practice and not encourage its continued abuse. T...

SAN FRANCISCO - Got anything you want to get off your chest about a federal bankruptcy judge? Saturday is the final day the 9t...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County grand jury blasted the county's educational system for juvenile offenders Wednesday, citing a "s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Phyllis Harding thinks rehabilitation of nonviolent drug offenders makes absolute sense. To prove her point, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last summer, San Francisco lawyer Tricia McCarthy founded The Bridge of Books Foundation, a nonprofit organiz...

Got anything you want to get off your chest about a federal bankruptcy judge? Saturday is the final day the 9th U.S. Circuit ...

SACRAMENTO - A drug reform group on Wednesday graded California's largest counties on their readiness to implement Propositio...

LOS ANGELES - OK, movie fans, ditch the popcorn. It's time to break out the litigation fruitcake and have a big, hearty slice....

SAN FRANCISCO - Antitrust fighters opened a new wave of price-fixing prosecutions Wednesday with a Dutch chemical giant's agr...

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. received permission Tuesday to spend $22 million a year on hazardous waste cleanups, which the c...

LOS ANGELES - In a settlement that preserves a library of criminal-case archives, the Los Angeles County district attorney's o...

LOS ANGELES - Ten years after a Los Angeles County health department employee alleged his superiors retaliated against him for...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday honored a team of city representatives for its tireless...

To show the defendant's complicated scheme to ground his client's satellite development deal, Southern California attorney Sta...

Scott Markus is a "recovering lawyer," he says. A full-time mediator for the last nine years, Markus, 45, gave up law practice...

As an attorney who aspires to be "master of all facts," Stanley M. Gibson immersed himself in the arcane world of satellite de...

Large punitive-damage awards against corporations are the bane of civil defendants, but jurors mete them out. Knowing what pun...

Corporate law departments struggle to set and maintain reasonable litigation budgets. Mediation may be the key to success. ...

When business litigators pick a mediator, do they look for generalists or do they insist on subject-matter expertise? The resp...

A review of the various arbitration rules establishes the very limited discovery that is generally available to the parties. ...

Many lawyers believe that moral neutrality is required by all lawyers all the time and that we may never enforce our moral vie...

Parker H. Bagley of Milbank Tweed's Los Angeles office won an injunction in a trademark infringement trial. Physicians Form...