A seat on the State Bar Board of Trustees is to be filled by a longtime city manager. ...

David H. Yamasaki, Santa Clara County Superior Court's court executive officer, will become Orange County's chief executive of...

Malcolm M. Lucas, the former chief justice who steered the state Supreme Court through politically turbulent times and promote...

Nearly three years after accepting the case for review, state Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Thursday about allowin...

To plaudits from innocence projects across the state, Gov. Brown signed three criminal justice reform bills designed to thwart...

Donald B. Verrilli Jr., who joins with two former colleagues, handled many of the Obama administration's most critical cases b...

College football players are employees of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and should be compensated for their at...

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo denied San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi's assertions of bi...

Santa Monica-based site that aggregates job listings announced the appointment of Ryan T. Sakamoto to senior vice president of...

California is set to enact ambitious changes to how the criminal justice system handles prostitution, human trafficking and mi...

Zeldes Haeggquist & Eck, LLP, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP, and the Lindemann Law Group PLC would be appointed interim ...

A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy charged in the 2011 beating of a jail visitor was acquitted of all charges Wednes...

U.S. Judge Stephen V. Wilson ruled that the suit, stayed in 2012, cannot be restored until a related appeal is resolved. ...

The nonprofit Western Justice Center will host its annual Justice Awards dinner on Saturday, honoring an individual, a law fir...

GC, VP of Policy, Co-Founder Deep Space Industries Inc. (Mountain View) ...

Ballot designations have been taken to court, including in two judicial races in Los Angeles County. ...

Assemblyman calls on bar to rectify transfer after new Legislative Counsel opinion. ...

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca's bid this week to disqualify U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson from his upcoming ...

A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.

David Pasternak said the bar has made significant reforms during the past year even in tough times. ...

Susan van Keulen, a Menlo Park-based partner with O'Melveny & Myers LLP, has been selected to fill the magistrate judge po...

Defendant must pay $1.12 million to studios as restitution. ...

Seven attorneys, some in private practice, sign declarations airing frustrations. ...

Marketplace lending company appoints Russell S. Elmer, who worked at the company from 2012-2014. ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that will fund environmental cleanup by adding to a fee to lead-acid battery sales. ...

The most prominent conservative voice of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will grow quieter after 2016, as Judge Diarmuid...

During the Daily Journal's timely interview of California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye (Sept. 19), she discussed in detai...

Regarding the otherwise excellent article by Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, "...

Over a year after the city said class members would receive their near $50 million settlement for mis-billing by the Los Angel...

Howard S. Fisher will be installed at a dinner with former Gov. Gray Davis as speaker. ...