Alternative fee arrangements and a decline in attorney headcount have put increasing pressure on law firms to rethink how they...

A rule banning pre-dispute arbitration agreements for nursing homes receiving federal funds is expected to increase liability ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will allow people with misdemeanor convictions to apply to have their sentences reduce...

Ruling 'chills' human interaction during jury selection, judge's attorney says. ...

A group of Wells Fargo & Co. sales employees filed a class action Thursday in San Francisco federal court alleging the ban...

Ed Oster thinks of parties working through a mediation as paddlers fighting against the current of a raging river. And as medi...

The state of California's lawsuit seeking to recover $4.2 million in costs related to the 2013 fire survived a demurrer hearin...

The firm's practice is anchored largely in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, in addition to the local federal forums, with a...

Christopher J. Lanzillo was working for the now defunct, Upland-based Lackie Dammeier McGill and Ethir APC in 2012 on behalf o...

The state Supreme Court dove head first into a giant rabbit hole Thursday in interpreting a seemingly simple law: Nonexempt em...

Despite little economic benefit to the state, report finds the program may still be necessary. ...

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.