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

Attorneys are waking up to the fact that their own firms can be vulnerable to litigation or government enforcement stemming fr...

Legal observers say decisions against video game companies are a departure from how many courts previously handled the balance...

Commissioner Rebecca Wightman lets parties get worries off their chests before cutting to the chase.

Judge Janet M. Frangie earns praise for her ability to sort through arcane issues in civil cases.

Luis J. Rodriguez, a deputy public defender in Los Angeles who has made inroads with leaders in Sacramento and members of the ...

Two recent decisions demonstrate that the line between zealous advocacy and actionable attorney conduct is blurring. By Jennif...

Howard Willens' inside account of the workings of the commission in his book "History Will Prove Us Right" gives an indication...

Most of the partners at Gibson Robb tell strikingly similar stories - finding their way into the niche world of maritime law e...

The Southern California chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted its annual "INside Diversity Reception" at The ...

Under a new court rule, anyone running in a contested election for a seat on a California superior court has to take a class o...

The man who invented the story of a San Diego Chargers player's dead girlfriend that ignited a media storm early this year has...

The women's section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association hosted a data security presentation by Eliza M. Rodrigues, the ...

The Northern District of California announced Thursday all of its employees are essential to the function of the court and wil...

Nanci E. Nishimura, a Burlingame-based partner with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP, discussed with the Daily Journal some ...

Panelists at a State Bar convention in San Jose discussed what happens when judges misbehave and what lawyers can do about it...

Sometimes science and the law don't match up, and that was the situation in a case heard by the state Supreme Court Thursday i...

UC Berkeley School of Law hosted its 2013 Supreme Court of California Conference last Friday. The conference, put on by the la...

Deputy District Attorney of San Diego Wendy Patrick offers advice for lawyers using social media. ...

AB 370, a law requiring companies tell web surfers how they respond to requests not to track users' online activity, is intend...

Proposition 36 could provide a "significant response" to the state's prison overcrowding crisis, according to an amicus brief ...

The social media dilemma has become increasingly complex as globalization puts lawyers at risk of breaches of confidentiality ...

At the State Bar convention in San Jose, the chief counsel and director of the state Commission on Judicial Performance also t...

The San Bernardino County Bar Association held its annual installation and awards banquet Oct. 3 at the National Orange Show i...

The California Minority Counsel Program held its 24th annual business conference at the end of September, honoring firms and b...

Avoiding disciplinary actions for misconduct is a simple process when boiled down to a few rules, according to California Stat...

California paralegals have been waiting for a court to make clear when law firms can and cannot bill for their work. A new app...

Jury instead found Olga Bello, a 90-year-old woman who ran a stop sign, broadsided the crash victim and set off the string of ...

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