On the privacy landscape, cloud providers were recently reminded of the need to closely evaluate the fine line of privacy and ...

Three superior court judge-elects will immediately assume office under interim appointments made Gov. Jerry Brown late Friday....

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Friday cut its rating on bonds issued to Thomas Jefferson School of Law six steps fr...

The FTC is reviewing whether changes should be made to COPPA to help the law keep pace with the widespread adoption of mobile ...

The benefit - featuring live performances from community children impacted by the foundation, a silent auction, and an address...

The bill, SB 873, was presented to the governor in September and is expected to help an estimated 57,000 children who have bee...

Rather than clarify two conflicting appellate decisions about who carries the burden of proof in cases involving immigrants al...

Major employment and consumer groups are challenging an appellate court decision giving an arbitrator the authority to determi...

Judge is passionate about parties' success in drug court, often leaving the bench to chat with defendants.

Teresa T. Sullivan employs empathy and understanding in presiding over a juvenile dependency court

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

John Murphy, 'well respected' on both sides of the aisle, plans to hang up his robe next June.

After more than a decade of service, Crowell & Moring LLP partner Jennifer S. Romano on Thursday became president of the W...

For the fourth straight year, enrollment in California law schools has shrunk. But the decline isn't quite as steep as previou...

In today's fast-moving business world, parties who have agreed to arbitrate disputes can be seriously damaged by delay in prot...

For years, employers have reacted to the size and breadth of employment laws and regulations in California by finding other me...

A recent decision serves as an important reminder that attorneys may be held personally accountable if they fail to adequately...

Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP handles major environmental cases and dealings with regulatory agencies, but partners at the S...

Plaintiffs' lawyer Joseph M. Alioto Jr. must pay more than $31 million of an attorney fee award to his lender, a San Francisco...

A lawyer who inserted pictures of herself into photos of celebrities and posted them on her law firm website should be suspend...

A portion of the Menlo Park office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is being remodeled to foster a more collaborative wor...

Appellate practitioners are pressing state appellate justices to issue tentative opinions before oral arguments, reigniting an...

Robert A. Murray counts himself among a small cohort of professionals who do full-time neutral work in Sonoma County. ...

Browne Greene of Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP and his wife, Leana, must trim a 40-foot hedge at their oceanfront Santa Mo...

In recent years, judges and bar associations have begun to lose their patience with uncivil attorneys. By J. Randolph Evans, S...

Divvying the litigants a dose of procedural whiplash, a court recently confessed it changed its mind regarding a legal matter ...

A judge ruled Thursday that Los Angeles County does not have to disclose its contract with the lawyer hired to carry out recom...

Entertainment lawyers voiced confidence that the film and television tax credit bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Thursda...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Proposition 47, which proposes reducing penalties for some drug and property theft crimes, has so far received less fanfare th...