Instead of a free-for-all, as occurred when some Facebook Inc. employees sold their shares before the company went public, wor...

General Counsel of GoPro Inc. San Mateo ...

With 62 percent of voters supporting Proposition 42 last month, Californians added two new open government provisions to the s...

At its Sept. 29 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a petition for certiorari in "the foie gras case." By Calvi...

Another Southern California city accused of not holding elections fair to minority voters and scheduling regular elections in ...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has been hired to conduct a review of the way General Motors Co. lawyers handle lit...

The State Bar Board of Trustees named Craig Holden, center, to become president of the bar for 2014-15. Holden, 44, is a partn...

Some lawyers and those posing as lawyers appear to be preparing to take advantage of immigrant children arriving here from Cen...

The Central District is poised to face the highest number of reviews from current inmates who could get lower sentences for th...

Last week's indictment by San Francisco federal prosecutors against one of the country's biggest package delivery services is ...

Judge James McBride was once criticized for rudeness, but now he relies on respectful humor.

Former prosecutor Brian E. Hill of Santa Barbara, now on the criminal bench, pays it forward.

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

Dorothy B. Reyes calls her busy preliminary hearing calendar a 'pressure box,' but she enjoys it.

In a win for environmentalists, a Sacramento superior court judge has extended the reach of the powerful but rarely used publi...

After a recent Delaware Supreme Court opinion, California corporations may want to consider adopting fee-shifting bylaws as a ...

One would think that when representing a corporation, figuring out who your client is shouldn't be difficult. But not so fast ...

AB 1839 is a win for everyone: It puts people to work, increases demand for the goods and services on which the entertainment ...

The rights of free speech and assembly are fundamental in our political and legal systems, but they are not absolute: Their ex...

Attorneys in the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice have sided with the ACLU in the group's lawsuit targe...

Niloufar Khonsari and her collaborator in chief, Marie Vincent, have achieved a number of successes in handling immigration ca...

Orange County DA is prosecuting what it calls state's largest food safety action ...

The civil suit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of plaintiff Mary Cavalieri - a former spinal surgery pati...

In an unusual case, attorneys for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, several U.S. and state legislators and nonprofits have reached a $4 m...

William A. Sassman, a convicted felon and father of two, filed a lawsuit claiming the program for inmates with children violat...

A longtime federal judge and a high profile proponent of same-sex marriage won unanimous approval from the Commission on Judic...

After retiring from the state appellate court bench, James R. Lambden joined ADR Services Inc., handling consulting work in ad...

A woman suing her lawyer for failing to return more than $46,000 in allegedly unearned attorney fees is not barred by the one-...

San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Marsha Slough will take over as head of the California Judicial Council's Trial Cou...

Shipping giant FedEx Corp. and subsidiaries conspired to traffic drugs, according to a federal grand jury criminal indictment ...