A reader responds to "Order opening dependency courts: Nothing new except procedure." ...
Technology & Science
Who’s hacked you now? Changes to state security breach statute
By Sharon Liangn
Steps a company must take to notify its affected customers once a security breach is discovered. By Peter H. Bales of Buchalte...
The state Legislature is considering a bill, AB 1450, that would make it illegal for companies to discriminate against unemplo...
Perspective
Individual arbitrations — the class action extinction event
By Sharon Liangn
The fate of class actions is in the state Supreme Court's hands. By Prescott W. Littlefield of Kearney Alvarez LLP ...
Learn about the different bases for justifying awards and how courts determine the proper amount. By Matthew Ross of the 4th D...
The U.S. Department of Labor recently released proposed changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act. By Linda B. Hollinshead a...
Intellectual Property
More patent cases reassigned under pilot program
By Craig Andersonn
A pilot program designed to steer patent infringement lawsuits to judges who have the aptitude and interest in hearing them is...
The Orange County Water District will face off with a slew of companies in a trial opening today over the alleged mishandling ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial performance commission taps new leadership
By Laura Ernden
Lawrence Simi and Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Erica R. Yew have been elected chair and vice chair of the Commissio...
The kingpin of a price-fixing and kickback scheme in the California tomato processing industry pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. D...
The San Francisco district attorney's office is spearheading the formation of a local sentencing commission in order to promo...
Judges and Judiciary
Veteran judges face off for presiding judge spot in LA
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
Carolyn B. Kuhl, the supervising judge of Los Angeles County Superior Court's civil division, announced last week she will run...
Entertainment & Sports
Lawyers grapple with interactive music royalties
By Erica E. Phillips
Interactive music service Spotify predicts that in two years' time it will yield more revenue for the record industry than iTu...
California Courts of Appeal
When can courts demand a juror's status update?
By Emily Green
A state appellate panel grappled Friday with the question of when a trial judge can compel a juror to reveal his Facebook reco...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Goodwin Procter LLP added Kristen Garcia Dumont as partner in its Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices. She specializes in...
Health Care & Hospital Law
A series of articles on the U.S. Supreme Court's oral arguments in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
By Riley Guerin
Judge Ignazio Ruvolo is drawn to the questions that remain unanswered in the law.
Large Firms
After unsure start, relationship between attorney and client thrives
By David Mc Afee
When Jennifer St. John Yount and Kurt R. Marsden began working together eight years ago, a significant legal hurdle made for a...
New laws require california employers to provide written commission agreements and other employment terms. By Mark Payne and B...
What legal recourse do undocumented workers have against their employers? By Michael L. Ludwig and Howard M. Knee of Blank Rom...
Oakland-based BrightSource, which develops utility scale solar-thermal projects, has reduced the amount of money it expects to...
The Judicial Council will decide the future of the Court Case Management System at a meeting Monday, choosing between three op...
After a two-week trial in a San Diego Superior Court that pit a prominent business leader and philanthropist against members o...
Long delays and inconsistencies plague the hearings at the state's Division Labor Standards Enforcement, according to data obt...
Diane M. Wiesmann, who took the helm of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel this month, is getting to work ...
A day after a federal judge issued a tentative ruling compelling Schneider Logistics to raise the pay of employees who sued th...
A lawyer for objectors argued the settlement in litigation over whether Bluetooth Headsets can cause hearing loss is a "poster...
Lawyers at Gaines & Stacey LLP wanted to keep their firm small and local so they could practice and serve the communities ...