New executive officers with the Administrative Office of the Courts, state appellate courts and the Supreme Court will have to...

The use of graphics in appellate pleadings is on the rise, attorneys say, but their effectiveness as a persuasive tool is deba...

Hogan Lovells US LLP has strengthened its intellectual property practice in Northern California with the addition of five new ...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP added Mahsa Aliaskari as special counsel in Century City. Aliaskari represents em...

A second turn at fatherhood has given Judge Steven R. Denton patience on and off the bench.

His wife's new career path steered Judge Richard Naranjo from manufacturing to the law.

A Stanford Law School professor is heading to court today in Monterey County on behalf of an environmental group that is deman...

Sometimes police fall into a well-known cognitive bias: they discount evidence that does not support what they already believe...

On a recent trip, I had the chance to meet the court's newest justice. By Joan B. Kessler of ADR Services ...

Ironic, given that green chemistry programs are meant to encourage the design of products that minimize the use and generation...

Since the closure of the courtroom in June, the daily calendar of the combined courtrooms often exceeds 60 cases, beyond what ...

Lawyers with the 16-year-old Woodland Hills firm Kurtz Law Group APC say they've achieved their success by specializing solely...

U.S. District Judge George H. King will take over as chief judge of the Central District at the end of business on Friday, the...

The three-building University Circle complex in East Palo Alto just off U.S. Highway 101 has an eerie history with large law f...

Six months into his new position as managing partner, Kim D. Thompson of Costa Mesa-based Rutan & Tucker LLP is tasked wit...

Lawyers and judges from throughout California gathered in Beverly Hills Tuesday night to honor the state’s Top 100 Lawyers of ...

The California Public Utilities Commission approved a $12 million settlement agreement Thursday, resolving issues surrounding ...

Richard Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP discuss how to negotiate confidentiality agreements in M&A...

Some mediators like to use authority to pressure parties into settling. Wayne Brazil asks how he can be of service to the disp...

Death penalty attorneys who were the subject of the state Supreme Court’s irritation for submitting a 500-page habeas petition...

A Los Angeles-based private equity firm is putting a secured line of financing into a debt-ridden publicly traded company in O...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP are trading office spaces in Palo Alto this weekend...

Coming a little more than one year after a 20 percent cut in enrollment, UC Hastings College of the Law has opened a master's ...

A state appeals court ruled Thursday that a criminal defendant is not eligible for a lighter sentence because he was sent to p...

A defense attorney trying to shield his client's financial documents from the Internal Revenue Service was happy to cite a cas...

The authors of a study on the cost of the death penalty in California have updated their initial report in a bid to bolster th...

Future executive hires for California courts administration will have to contribute to their pensions – including incoming AOC...

Redwood City-based IT security company Qualys Inc. announced Tuesday plans for an initial public offering of 7,575,000 shares ...

As a matter of law, a California mortgage note cannot be a "negotiable instrument" under Article 3 of the California Commercia...

Following the ruling in Mark T. v. Jamie Z. family law attorneys can finally make a promise to their clients: custody o...