Even as the Judicial Council wrestles with a new language access plan to bring more interpreters into courtrooms, a state appe...

Contrary to findings in a new audit, the State Bar doesn't have excess money, dues aren't too high and the discipline backlog ...

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Corporate litigants facing a substantial adverse judgment may attempt summary dissolution to evade execution of the judgment a...

Senate Bill 213, currently pending committee approval in the Assembly, is a bill that will substantially decrease the number o...

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said law enforcement must produce an administrative subpoena for motel owners to cha...

San Mateo County Superior Court Executive Officer John Fitton, who helped lead the court through budget cutbacks during the pa...

After losses in California and New York, Sirius XM Radio has won summary judgment in Florida federal court, dismissing copyrig...

Lydia I. Beebe, who has spent the past 20 years as corporate secretary and chief governance officer of Chevron Corp., joined W...

Patent holders are barred from charging royalties from licensees once a patent has expired, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Mon...

In a divorce proceeding between two multimillionaire finance attorneys, the wife gained a bit of traction on Monday in proving...

A federal jury in Orange County has awarded close to $60 million to the family of a woman who died due to a defective heater. ...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has said that it will release full accident reports on crashes involving self-driv...

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Calling the legal claims premature, U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley dismissed a railroad industry lawsuit over a new state law...

The column on contempt actions did a good job of highlighting the complexities in contempt proceedings, but it at times fell p...

Why do our state's election laws allow candidates in all of its elections (judicial and non-judicial) to designate their occup...

In a move away case, attorneys must consider the detriment to the child, both if the child remains with one parent, or relocat...

Following a recent revelation that upwards of 1,000 cases at the courthouse had been tampered with, Judge Thomas J. Borris has...

Navajo tribal sovereignty clashed with federal death penalty politics Friday as a divided federal appellate panel affirmed a c...

Unsatisfied with the partial reversal of a $930 million patent damages award for Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a...

A special task force report said it could not easily determine what forces have pushed the cost of legal education up and reco...

United Airlines Inc. profiled the wrong minority, a lawsuit filed Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleges. Satjiv ...

Faced with California's ongoing water shortage, the Judicial Council is considering a conservation plan this week that may lea...

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

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A state high court on Monday may suggest we have finally reached a point where housing rights are finally recognized as import...

In a biennial report mandated by statute, the state auditor also criticized the regulatory body for not disciplining lawyers c...

A class action set to be filed Friday alleges that Verizon Wireless secretly tracked its subscribers' browsing history, bundle...