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

San Mateo County Judge Susan L. Greenberg is known for handling family law cases efficiently.

Most U.S. attorney's offices in California do not appear to be pursuing dispenaries as aggressively since an August 2013 memo ...

With the help of technology, risks once limited to the largest firms now reach virtually every firm. By J. Randolph Evans, Sha...

On the agenda for the Board of Trustees' regular meeting Friday is a discussion item proposing the appointment of a special co...

City Attorney Mike Feuer vows to prosecute scam artists. The cross-jurisdictional partnership will also offer free resources a...

California leads the nation in number of inmates awaiting execution, even as 2014 marks the lowest rate of executions in the U...

Richard C. Brizendine, 59, pleaded guilty to federal financial crimes after structuring shady deals for a marijuana dealer. ...

One of the oldest plaintiffs' firms in San Diego, Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield LLP is best known for it...

A civil rights lawsuit on behalf of California students allegedly denied a quality education due to disruptive conditions in s...

Drath has been a part-time neutral for years, but continued practicing until recently. He said he realized what a better mood ...

A week after the Supreme Court ruled a trial judge should have considered arguments for disqualifying a prosecutor in a high-p...

Steve Coony will start in Manatt's Sacramento office on Jan. 1. Coony will serve as a managing director in the firm's governme...

Marc I. Willick is aiming for damages from Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik LLP over asbestos cases filed in his name without his kn...

A group of 500 warehouse workers filed a complaint against their employers, who operate and staff warehouses at the Port of Lo...

A judge recently appointed a receiver to run the business operations of a company that grows organic microgreens, finding the ...

The plaintiff's attorney, Brian J. Panish of Panish Shea & Boyle, said he believes the verdict may be the highest ever awa...

Thomas J. Mattei Jr. is the coffee maker and distributor's second general counsel in its 102-year history. ...

Lawyers hold rally to call attention to recent shootings of black men ...

An electronics distributor, represented by the law firm Berliner Cohen, has been slapped with a $4,800 fine for pursuing "wild...

Investors claiming they lost out in the hostile takeover bid for Allergan Inc. have filed a potential class action against the...

A commission that vets judicial nominees has given state Supreme Court nominee Leondra R. Kruger its highest rating of "except...

An en banc 9th Circuit painted a picture Tuesday of a fine arts resale law that may break the commerce clause but could be at ...

General counsel and director of operations of Funding Circle USA Inc. San Francisco ...

The holiday season brings with it much tradition. One tradition being the National Labor Relations Board dropping new law-chan...

The most compelling white collar criminal development in California in 2014 is the choice of two large companies to reject con...

Thursday marks 70 years since Korematsu v. US, in which the Supreme Court upheld the ethnic cleansing of all persons of Japane...

Recent analysis by BTI Consulting Group revealed that global companies will add $1 billion to their outside counsel spending i...

Two bankruptcy judges have been reappointed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Alan Jaroslovsky of the Northern Distric...

Professor Emeritus George N. Gafford, who left a big legacy at California Western School of Law, has died. He was 98. ...