Attorneys who appear before LA Commissioner Kristi Lousteau say she is like a favorite professor.

A three-way fracas among trial judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers broke out before the state Supreme Court here Thursday ...

Mediation offers an incredibly high success rate because there's less formality and more opportunity for each side to express ...

With broad bipartisan support, focused legislation designed to rein in frivolous patent litigation by so-called "trolls" is ex...

There are currently no laws on the books requiring Supreme Court justices to recuse themsleves from cases in which a company t...

A new appellate case may jeopardize efforts to impose conservation-based water supply charges, at least without a careful cost...

The assumed facts in San Francisco v. Sheehan are a bit harrowing, but the Supreme Court's ruling turned out to have mo...

The EPA and the Army Corps recently unleashed a final rule defining the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act. L...

Theodore E. Millard Judicial Dispute Resolution Inc. ...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday voted unanimously to overturn the death sentence of a convicted robber and murderer after ...

Sidley Austin LLP snagged powerhouse entertainment dealmaker Matthew C. Thompson from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, t...

Shirish Gupta, 41, will begin as full time neutral with JAMS in San Francisco on June 1, the mediation and arbitration service...

Provident Funding Associates LP will pay $9 million to settle allegations from two government agencies that it charged higher ...

Wearable technology company Fitbit Inc. was sued Wednesday by its larger rival Jawbone, creating a cloud of uncertainty for in...

Andrew K. Powell joins Medivation Inc. from executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary position at Inte...

Principal at the Water and Power Law Group PC in Berkeley, Richard Roos-Collins has been involved in more than 50 settlements ...

Fresno County agreed to settle a class action brought by detainees in the county jail Thursday. The agreement sets in place a ...

Apple Inc. has secured a defense win against patent holder Unwired Planet LLC a week before the litigants were scheduled to se...

The question presented in a recent Supreme Court cased had significant practical implications for the continued functioning of...

In what was widely viewed as the latest emblem of consolidation in the semiconductor industry, chipmaker Avago Technologies Lt...

The justices ruled that someone filing a workers' compensation claim has a lower hurdle to clear than a plaintiff in a lawsuit...

A long-running shareholder derivative suit against the maker of Botox ended late Wednesday in dismissal by a federal judge. U....

California's Private Attorneys General Act has become a tool for plaintiffs' attorneys to extract large settlements from emplo...

U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh has certified a class action against Yahoo Inc., giving email users a chance to prove the comp...

In an unusual move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has re-emphasized why it redacted a prisoner's name in a recent deci...

Californians voted in 2012 to ease the harsh three strikes law, but it's now up to the state Supreme Court to clarify confusio...

General Counsel of Dermalogica Inc. Carson ...

Cause marketing has skyrocketed in the past decade among consumers, and a recent lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission agai...

The U.S. high court recently granted certiorari in a case asking whether a defendant can moot a class action by making a settl...

The lack of an increase in tuition at University of California law schools, per Governor Jerry Brown's budget, is a boon to la...