Cash flow in dealmaking slowed slightly nationwide and in California last year compared to the record activity in 2015, but de...
Litigation
Jehovah's Witness prison guard sues for retaliation over alleged harassment
By Malcolm Maclachlan
A 22-year veteran prison guard has sued the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for retaliation he alleged...
Attorney moves and promotions and new firms from around the state.
Stanislaus County Presiding Judge Ricardo Cordova keeps things moving in criminal court.
A judicial aftershock following the Donald J. Trump political earthquake could jolt rightward the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
Mediator Ross Hart works to corral large and often disparate groups. ...
Family ties are a point of pride at Appel Law Firm LLP, a plaintiffs law firm specializing in personal injury. ...
Alana Robinson, second-in-command at the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of California, has been named acting...
A proposed securities class action against Volkswagen AG will go forward after most of the company's motion for summary judgme...
San Diego-based biotechnology company Retrophin Inc. announced on Wednesday the appointment of Elizabeth E. Reed to general co...
James A. Bascue did not participate in disciplinary proceedings in State Bar Court related to his assault with a firearm convi...
California Supreme Court
California high court rules for State Bar in anti-SLAPP case
By Phil Johnson
The state Supreme Court bolstered litigants' protection from meritless lawsuits in a Thursday ruling involving the State Bar a...
Obituaries
San Bernardino judge remembered as mentor, distinguished prosecutor
By Renee Flannery
Brian D. Saunders, a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge of nearly 20 years and a former county prosecutor, died Tuesda...
Labor/Employment
Judge rules for McDonald's in Bay Area joint employer case
By Matthew Blake
McDonald's Corp. does not have to go up against a certified class of about 1,200 San Francisco Bay Area workers because the ex...
Immigration
Immigrant defense funds may extend to private bar. Nonprofits can't do it alone, donors say.
By America Hernandez
Requests for proposals will be issued in several months to augment the corps of attorneys doing deportation defense. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Plaintiffs' firm owes more than $1 million in tax case, court rules
By Joshua Seboldn
Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack will have to pay more than $1 million in taxes and $250,000 in penalties after attempts to claim...
General Counsel Grimmway Enterprises Inc. ...
Law Practice
Legislature's hiring of Obama's attorney general raises questions
By Malcolm Maclachlan
The Democrat-controlled state Legislature's decision to hire former Obama administration Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. r...
California Supreme Court
State high court mulls coastal development case
By Justin Kloczko
The state Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case contesting a planned mixed-use development in Newport Beach along ...
Labor/Employment
US labor department sues Google over employment documents
By Matthew Blake
Sixteen days before President Barack Obama leaves office his administration has dropped a legal bombshell, suing Alphabet Inc....
Entertainment & Sports
'Star Trek' film lawsuit requires jury trial, judge rules
By Steven Crighton
Though the judge found heavily in favor of the plaintiffs, the makers of a "Star Trek" fan film will get their shot at trial. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar halts enforcement of bar exam passage rule
By Lyle Moran
The agency said the Committee of Bar Examiners suspended the rule because the panel has stopped providing schools a list of ho...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate panel rules PAGA-only lawsuits can go straight to judge
By Matthew Blake
Plaintiffs' employment lawyers got a boost Tuesday when a state appellate court ruled that lawsuits containing only a Private ...
Tehama County Judge C. Todd Bottke amazes attorneys, colleagues with his work ethic.
Opening statements began for one defendant in the jury trial over alleged bribery in a decade-old San Bernardino County public...
Gail Andler retired as a judge Jan. 1, and her first day at JAMS was Tuesday. She isn't yet eligible for her state pension, bu...
A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.
California will soon have a new attorney general, who may have several new powers and responsibilities if the state Legislatur...
San Diego-based Apricus Biosciences Inc. announced Tuesday the promotion of associate general counsel Mary F. Naggs to general...
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court Tuesday said a recent voter-approved property tax measure is illegal. ...