Attorney moves and promotions and new firms from around the state.

Government officials cannot shield messages held on their private devices from a California Public Records Act request, the Ca...

A state judge has ruled that a Santa Barbara County water district has senior rights to water that flows from a private bedroc...

A state senator and a coalition of legal aid groups asked a Senate Budget subcommittee to increase legal aid funding by $30 mi...

Friends and former colleagues of Ronald S. Bell, who resigned as Yahoo Inc.'s general counsel Wednesday, defended him. ...

Warning of possible labor unrest and drastic cuts to services, Judicial Council staff and court officers from around the state...

A public employee retirement system must pay retroactive interest on disability benefits only if the retirement system committ...

Consumer attorney Brian S. Kabateck has been named the next president-elect of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, meaning...

The firm — known as the Kaufman Legal Group — has built a reputation over the past 20 years as a go-to institution for Democra...

Robert Schnider's roots in family law go deep, personally and professionally. ...

Corporate partner John T. Sheridan left Wilson Sonsini, where he recently served as co-managing partner, and jumped to Latham ...

Democratic members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee want the state Supreme Court to reduce the bar passing threshold while ...

After an eight-year appeal process, a judge ordered Christensen last month to begin his sentence. ...

Justices said in a 3-0 decision published Tuesday that the 2015 award by Peter Shenas, formerly of American Arbitration Associ...

Senior Vice President and General Counsel Rambus Inc. (Sunnyvale) ...

Vivendi claims their claims are blocked because they weren't signatories to the agreement. ...

While conservative groups have been hailing a decision by a federal judge in favor of a pair of gun rights bloggers, the plain...

The longstanding interpretation of California's judge disqualification law will remain unchanged after the 4th District Court ...

The Commission on Judicial Performance seeks public comment on a series of proposed changes to its rules, including lowering t...

Attorneys for the city of San Francisco told a state appellate court Wednesday that cities should have broad powers to tax sta...

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye tells the State Bar it would be prudent to study whether the second highest passing score...

Placer County Judge Garen Horst was a football player, musician, prosecutor before the bench.

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved

A draft of President Donald J. Trump's first federal budget proposal that has been circulating in recent days has confirmed th...

In its first major lateral hire of 2017, Arent Fox LLP has hired a commercial litigator from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sull...

El Segundo-based Cetera Financial Group Inc., a network of firms offering retail financial advice, announced this week financi...

The briefs feature arguments about whether the State Bar knew former Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn was a whistleblower and...

During his two tenures as governor, Jerry Brown has diversified the state judiciary to a substantial degree. That has accelera...

Reed Smith LLP has scooped a five-attorney tax team from Morrison & Foerster LLP in the latest addition for the firm's gro...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel called for en banc review of a case where they felt growers are not being given adeq...