A new lawsuit joins a recent case against the Agricultural Labor Relations Board. The first resulted in a finding that a labor...

Julie Emede handled child and spousal support issues as an attorney before joining the bench.

The state's trial lawyer lobby argues its ballot initiative to increase noneconomic damages for medical malpractice enjoys pub...

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

John Sugiyama made one of his life's biggest transitions when he became a probate judge.

Judge John W. Kennedy has practiced and presided over criminal law matters his entire career.

Lawsuits arising from social media will only increase - from plaintiffs asserting First Amendment protection to defendants fac...

These days virtually all discovery is e-discovery. By Michael P. Carbone ...

The employee claimed the company took back a job offer because of her pregnancy. ...

Members of Goodwin Procter LLP's Los Angeles office last month participated in the firm's "Build Day," an all-day affair invol...

Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles gave its Legal Excellence Award to the late Sam S. Oh during the aid group's eighth...

Helene Wasserman of labor and employment law firm Littler Mendelson PC was appointed chair of the Conference of California Bar...

The Orange County Bar Foundation hosted its 17th annual Shortstop Golf Classic on Oct. 19 at Irvine's Oak Creek Golf Club. The...

James Donato, a San Francisco-based antitrust partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP and Beth Labson Freeman, a San Mateo Supe...

The Sacramento chapter of the Urban Land Institute honored Best Best & Krieger LLP of counsel Joseph E. Coomes Jr. last mo...

An Oakland federal judge said Thursday there was a "pretty strong possibility" that she would issue an injunction against an o...

The Encinitas Union School District program, the parents argued, was rooted in Eastern religion and thereby violated the Estab...

Relying upon a slate of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases over the patent eligibility of naturally occurring phenomena, a federa...

Outgoing Fair Political Practices Commission Chairwoman Ann Ravel was sworn in as the newest member of the six-person Federal ...

Toyota Motor Corp.'s driver error theory for sudden acceleration in its vehicles comes under scrutiny after juries in Los Ange...

During a panel at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hamptons LLP's Palo Alto office on Oct. 24, gamification experts Steve Sims ...

Attorneys gathered at the Bar Association of San Francisco on Oct. 25 for the annual Attorney Fees Conference, put on by the N...

The civil rights group Disability Rights Advocates celebrated the 20th anniversary of its founding with a gala dinner at the P...

Lizbeth Hasse founded Creative Industry Law shortly after helping draft the Russian Federation's first copyright law since the...

Egil "Bud" Krogh Jr., who was imprisoned for orchestrating a break-in to gather information on the Pentagon Papers leaker, beg...

Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but unless the lawyer who assists them takes a disciplined approach, he won't be the one ...

San Francisco civil judges Richard A. Kramer, Curtis E.A. Karnow and Marla J. Miller have thrown their hats in the ring, accor...

Fantex Holdings is offering the public a chance to trade shares tied to the future "brand value" of prominent professional ath...

In a filing last week seeking to dismiss a civil action brought by the CFPB in federal court, attorneys for debt relief servic...

Federal securities laws are changing in a manner not seen in almost 80 years. By Julie A. Ryan and Robert R. Rugani