Neutral Phyllis Pollack applies a frank, and often humorous, mediation style.

Nearly a decade after same-sex marriage activists sought to strike down California’s Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, a Bay ...

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. asked a federal judge this week to dismiss an investors’ class action alleging it misrepresented a...

No explanation for the dismissal has been given, but prosecutors last year acknowledged exonerating testimony from a former co...

Even if the U.S. Supreme Court decides not to import some California labor laws in a case concerning oil rigs on the outer con...

Peoria, Illinois-based RLI Insurance Co. sued engineering and environmental firm Langan, claiming the New Jersey-based company...

The plaintiff suffered sexual abuse and kidnapping by a teacher employed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

A proposed class action accuses Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego of using hidden cameras in operating rooms of its Women’...

The last man incarcerated for the 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping won a new parole hearing because the presiding commiss...

Retired bankruptcy attorney George M. Treister of Stutman, Treister & Glatt law firm -- which had major influence in the b...

A superior court judge Wednesday selected consumer attorney Brian S. Kabateck to represent water and power ratepayers who migh...

More than two years after a $208 million settlement was reached, NCAA athletes could finally start receiving checks after appe...

Despite national attention, Orange County Judge Walter Schwarm says he’s just doing his job.

The settlement includes a single payment from Apple to Qualcomm, a six-year licensing agreement and a multi-year chipset suppl...

A major class action firm wants a state lawsuit against opioid manufacturers in Orange County coordinated with nine lawsuits r...

Baker & Hostetler LLP announced Tuesday that Robert A. Julian, Cecily A. Dumas and Kimberly Morris have joined the firm as...

The Board of Supervisors adopted a motion calling for a multi-agency collaboration to examine the impact of these charges.

A group of Southern California plaintiffs has sued Wells Fargo & Co., claiming the bank knowingly aided a real estate-base...

A new study claims the LSAT disproportionately disadvantages black law school applicants, hurting their chances for admission,...

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has teamed up with Australian litigation investor IMF Bentham to launch a $30 million legal assista...

Knobbe Martens

Jury selection began Monday in what could be the largest corporate jury trial of the year between Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc....

A qui tam False Claims Act suit that appears to have played a central role in the downfall of a former federal prosecutor conv...

Despite retaining powerhouse attorney Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., the McClatchy Co. may still face a drawn-out and pricey defens...

A federal judge has dismissed a private Christian school’s challenge to a state law banning gay conversion therapy for minors.

A whittled jury verdict on appeal to the 9th Circuit is the latest battleground in the troubled attorney’s legal saga.

In the #MeToo era and with several major law firms facing related litigation, firms are looking at improving training and poli...

The 24th annual Association of Corporate Counsel gala will be held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in Los Angeles M...

Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded not guilty to charges that they paid colleg...

The news sent Pacific Gas & Electric Co. shares sharply upward, given that such a move could ease the company's burden fro...