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

The restaurant operator is appealing the certification of a class of more than 110,000 restaurant workers in a longrunning sui...

Breathalyzer tests will continue in widespread use, the state Supreme Court ensured last week by rejecting defense lawyers' ef...

Significant changes to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45 governing civil subpoenas will become effective Dec. 1. By Christoph...

San Bernardino County's attorney union sued the county in June after officials imposed a contract forcing the lawyers to contr...

Officials say a rule requiring courts to spend nearly all of their savings by June will cause layoffs and ongoing fiscal insec...

More than 90 percent of civil cases are settled without trial. Jerome Falk discusses why it's quite the opposite when it comes...

Cases that go to trial have winners and losers, but are there winners and losers when cases are settled in mediation? By Bruce...

The 9th Circuit has issued a clear warning that copyright owners should heed. By Audrey A. Millemann

The "ministerial exception" is a powerful defense for certain employers. By Michael Blacher and David Urban

Winston & Strawn emerged as the winner of the Landau Lawyers League's 2013 fall softball playoffs, beating Allen Matkins i...

Founded in 1913, Parker Milliken Clark O'Hara & Samuelian APC has weathered changes in the legal industry by focusing on c...

San Leandro-based human resources outsourcing service provider TriNet Group Inc. filed plans Wednesday to conduct a $250 milli...

Judge M. Lynn Duryee of Marin County Superior Court swears in the Consumer Attorneys of California's executive committee at a ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Nossaman LLP held a dinner event for the newest recipient of the University of San Francisco School of Law Women Lawyers Commi...

A federal judge must determine what Best Buy's attorneys should be paid in a price-fixing case in which they were technically ...

The East Bay Community Law Center celebrated its 25th anniversary Nov. 12 with a gala at Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland. Over th...

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP held the first open house at its Menlo Park office on Nov. 14. The firm invited b...

A girl of Chickasaw descent was improperly placed in a non-Indian home, violating the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, a stat...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, right, administers the oath of office to the 2014 CAL-ABOTA officer...

The Landau Lawyers League held its eighth annual fall basketball all-star games on Nov. 14, bringing together top players nomi...

Phyllis W. Cheng, director of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, discussed current gender and housing d...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Nicole Gesher decided to go to law school because she had lofty dreams of changing the world. But she has found satisfaction a...

That brings the total number of vacancies on the court to six.

Multimillion-dollar commercial real estate projects aren’t likely targets for small-time investors, but that may be changing. ...

The federal jury ordered Samsung to pay $290.4 million for patent infringement - bringing the total award to $929.8 million ag...

Cy pres dollars can mean the difference between a legal aid clinic being able to serve indigent clients and having to turn the...

Eleven Orange County jurors were ready to convict former Stradling Yocca partner Kent W. Easter of knowingly calling in a fals...