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

Passion and drive have propelled Elizabeth Guerrero Macias to the Orange County bench.

Attorneys say Alameda Judge Scott Patton is contemplative and doesn't make decisions on the fly

The retired judges who are placed in temporary assignments around the state operate in a program praised for helping Californi...

In many cases, clients will find the agency's settlement demands are unacceptable and instead will conclude that litigation is...

In the region that's been dubbed the "Wild West" of California, San Bernardino County district attorney hopefuls have waged a ...

The LA Law Library presented its weighty Beacon of Justice Award to 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice H. Walter Croskey on ...

Dispute resolution provider Judicate West closed 2013 with festivities marking the group's 20th anniversary. Neutrals and staf...

A federal jury Thursday awarded $30 million to Neurovision Medical Products Inc. after finding NuVasive Inc. infringed on Neur...

Irell & Manella LLP partner John Hueston was the trustee who oversaw claims by states, cities and the Navajo Nation in wha...

The federal charges brought against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. this week for the 2010 fatal pipeline explosion that devastat...

President Barack Obama tapped Central District U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. Thursday as his nominee to replace U.S. Distri...

Loyola Law School honored professor Therese H. Maynard by awarding her the William G. Coskran chair during a ceremony on March...

Scores of Inland Empire lawyers and judges gathered in Ontario last week to honor California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Saka...

Three years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court redefined the willful blindness doctrine in a patent case, the white collar crimi...

The State Bar next month begins a close review of its standards for punishing lawyers in discipline trouble. A special task fo...

Using an increasingly popular tactic in employment law, a spurned Silicon Valley executive complained that former employers N...

Inmates released under a 2012 voter initiative to soften California's three-strikes law have dramatically lower recidivism rat...

The trusts and estates litigators at Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise say the complicated, sometimes emotional nature of ...

The first time Lee Jay Berman mediated a settlement, it was between two sisters in their 80s who had not exchanged a word in 2...

As lawsuits over General Motors Co.'s ignition problems pour in, speculation about whether the automaker will be protected by ...

A recent case tests whether a hiring bonus based on a book of business built during marriage is divisible upon divorce. By Mit...

In the most important business case of the state Supreme Court term so far, the justices seemed poised to reverse its earlier ...

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

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

The pharmaceutical industry, hoping to stop a novel drug take-back program in Alameda County, is pinning its hopes on a case p...

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. Phoenix ...

While there can be no question that the private enforcement is important, there can also be no question that one statute has l...

The low level of mental competence required for marriage has made this a fertile field for a new form of financial elder abuse...