If they can't afford bail, low-level offenders often are pressured into guilty pleas, because all they want to do is get out o...

Two public agency law boutiques with a presence in Sacramento are combining forces. Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP, previously...

The Compton courthouse has garnered a significant amount of attention from the White House this past month for its Succeeding ...

Disgraced former judge William R. Danser won't get any more cash from the judicial retirement system, even though he won expun...

A superior court judge cannot reconsider a criminal sentence when the defendant is pursuing a related appeal, a state appeals ...

Attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP have filed the first class action...

The state Supreme Court needs to answer the question regarding what is a plaintiff's burden of proof regarding restitution in ...

This month the state Legislature passed comprehensive legislation providing for the full regulation of the medical marijuana i...

A series of lawsuits recently filed in the Northern District of California seem to think so. By Bruce E. Boyden ...

Waste collector Recology Inc. won a defense verdict last week when a San Mateo County jury unanimously rejected a $10.6 millio...

A $192 million attorney fee request in a large Northern District antitrust class action has lawyers asking for a third of the ...

Public investment giants, such as Fidelity and Vanguard, are steadily seeking more access to private companies and have funnel...

Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Financialforce.com Inc. San Francisco ...

Attorneys and government officials are turning Hollywood's most notorious cybercrime case into a learning opportunity, as an u...

Reform proposal announced Monday cites concern that many settlements between private enforcers and companies divert money from...

In huge victory for plaintiff employment lawyers, 9th Circuit Judge Milan Smith said employees must be able to bring represent...

Mono County Superior Court Judge Stanley L. Eller is known for his simple, patient approach.

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

California may be the eighth largest global economy, but it lacks a rule on the practice of foreign in-house counsel, affectin...

According to UNHCR, more than 440,000 refugees have entered Europe by sea this year. Nearly 3,000 of those have died or gone m...

California's Film and Television Tax Credit Program is receiving mixed reviews, with attorneys lauding a boost in in-state pro...

Philip R. Nicholson, a founding partner of Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP who was active with the company since its inception...

Since its founding in 1957, Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman LLP has been at the heart of the entertainment world - both figurati...

An erotic film studio that has developed into the nation's most active copyright plaintiff has turned its gaze to the Northern...

California wrongly punishes prison gang members by abolishing their good conduct credits, unconstitutionally extending their s...

Part of a series of columns looking at constitutional questions the Supreme Court will look at this term. This column discusse...

Following after an April 2013 injunction mandating legal representation for mentally disabled immigration detainees, the settl...

Northern District judge nearly tosses closely watched suit, but rules that a Bay Area franchisee could merely be the ostenisbl...

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP filed a putative class action Friday against Volkswagen Group of America Inc., joining a gr...

Fresno County Commissioner Heather Jones believes kindness pays off in career and courtroom