Kate Kendell — who joined the organization in 1994 and has served as executive director since 1996 — will step down at the end...

Environmental and regulatory lawyer Timothy J. Swickard joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as a shareholder in Sacramento, the firm ...

U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney is unafraid of making controversial calls in criminal cases.

California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye thanked the Legislature for increased funding for the courts in the...

A week after a flood of appeals concerning the Federal Communications Commission's decision to rescind internet regulations kn...

Plaintiffs’ counsel in a state court insurance class action argue the defense can’t get out of claims because a previous feder...

The incoming leader of the state Senate won’t commit to continuing an arrangement her predecessor had with Covington & Bur...

The suit alleges that Walmart’s failure to tend to the inflated sales figures was partially motivated by the battle for market...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case testing the limits of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as...

Biotechnology company Illumina Inc. has sued Natera Inc. for patent infringement over its use of a noninvasive prenatal test.

South San Francisco-based Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. has appointed John B. Moriarty as executive vice president and general ...

Quanergy Systems Inc. has tapped Rick Arnold to be general counsel.

A federal judge is allowing a RICO case to go forward against a group of lawyers that unsuccessfully sued a San Jose restauran...

The Department of Justice received a small victory recently in its ongoing effort to push swift U.S. Supreme Court review of a...

By passing over nonviolent third strikers for Proposition 57’s early parole consideration, the California Department of Correc...

A state lawmaker has introduced a bill to extend an amnesty program for fines and fees by another six years.

George Leal, who worked for the bar for more than eight years, steps down later this month.

A class action was filed Thursday against the Trump administration challenging what it says is the government’s practice of de...

A Los Angeles County judge has taken charge of the task of handling sexually violent predator cases as quickly and fairly as p...

Justice Elwood Lui of the 2nd District Court of Appeal said the bar needs additional funds

Attorneys representing LinkedIn Corp. and a data analytics company that aggregates information from the networking site’s publ...

The most recent legislative and legal challenges to President Donald J. Trump’s immigration agenda from California are focusin...

A federal jury has awarded $33.5 million, including $18 million in punitive damages, to the family of a man fatally shot by a ...

Continuing a series of opinions upholding the enforcement of arbitration agreements, an appellate court panel reversed a trial...

To commemorate the arrival of its new retail practice team, Steptoe & Johnson LLP hosted a party at pingpong social club S...

Buchalter shareholder Eric Kennedy and Allen Matkins partner Charles Jarrell co-founded the rock group Attractive Nuisance in ...

Theranos Inc., a Palo Alto blood test developer, and its CEO have agreed to settle “massive fraud” charges brought by the Secu...

The Sacramento-based school plans to reduce its full-time faculty by about 25 percent through voluntary buyouts to free up fun...

Orange County District Attorney Anthony J. Rackauckas has questioned the fairness of the now-appellate court justice who dismi...

In a recent filing in the appeal over U.S. District Judge William Alsup’s injunction preventing the government from dismantlin...