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

Riverside Judge Judith Clark works to ensure matters don't have to be litigated more than once.

LA Judge Deborah Christian considers real circumstances when applying the law.

A day after a violent altercation between an Orange County defense attorney and a district attorney's investigator in a courth...

LA County Judge Shannon Knight is seldom in her chambers but almost always on the bench.

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Two attorneys from Northern California won seats on the bar's Board of Trustees ...

A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed a lower court's grant of a convicted murderer's habeas petition Thu...

A plaintiff that obtains a settlement payment in a civil lawsuit is entitled to recovery of legal costs from the defendant, th...

The settlement brings the pension fund's recovery of 2008-era investment losses to $1.2 billion. ...

Apple Inc. is unreasonable, hyperbolic and maybe even hypocritical for not unlocking an iPhone used by deceased San Bernardino...

One day after taking an unpaid leave of absence, UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Sujit Choudhry resigned Thursday from his lead...

Launched just a year ago, Kane & Kimball LLP primarily represents individuals who have come under investigation by a gover...

Morrison & Foerster LLP is losing life sciences partner Mark R. Wicker to Perkins Coie LLP. ...

The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission joined forces to stop a group of Westlake Village telemarketing com...

A weekly report of the State Bar's disciplinary actions.

Vice President of Legal and Compliance Hearsay Social Inc. San Francisco ...

Michael C. Sullivan, a partner at Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton LLP, who represents Thomas Jefferson School of Law,...

Hiram Torres' recent piece misrepresents the professional practices and standards observed by court interpreters. By Margaret ...

The opinion piece by Hiram Torres is out of step with what the vast majority of professional interpreters know and practice in...

As Monsanto Co. tries to vindicate its use of carcinogenic chemicals in state court, the agrochemical giant will also have to ...

The state Supreme Court will begin to regularly broadcast oral arguments live on the Internet as part of a sustained push to o...

Lawsuit filed by former assistant to Sujit Choudhry follows internal investigation, discipline ...

The general counsel of California's largest agricultural water district will pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $...

A plaintiff whose case was decided by Ventura County Judge Henry J. Walsh has asked the court to retroactively disqualify the ...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye of the state Supreme Court backed ongoing state government initiatives Tuesday to bolster...

False felony convictions in California's criminal justice system cost taxpayers more than $282 million between 1989 and 2012, ...

Bruce A. Broillet and Scott H. Carr steered Fox sportscaster to victory in sensational privacy case ...

The agency says government code permits it to withhold the rates paid to outside attorneys ...