(Subscription required) After serving for over two decades on the bench - including nearly eight years on the 4th District Court of Appeal - Justice Thomas M. Goethals has joined ADR Services Inc. as a neutral.

(Subscription required) Attorneys who lost homes in LA County fires find solace in work, securing multimillion-dollar verdicts while rebuilding, leaning on colleagues and clients for strength.

(Subscription required) Christopher Kamon, ex-CFO of Girardi Keese, requests a 30-month sentence, claiming he was a minor player following Tom Girardi's orders in a $15 million fraud scheme.

An oral contract under which a woman performed as a surrogate mother, agreeing that she would not have the status of a parent, is legally enforceable, the Third District Court of Appeal held on Friday.