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

US District Judge Terry Hatter insists on decorum and good grammar in his federal courtroom.

Contra Costa County Judge Danielle Douglas, a former prosecutor, does a lot of self-evaluation. Contra Costa County Judge Dani...

Should the Olympic Torch make its way down Figueroa Street en route to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum nine years from now, than...

Once people experience a story, it becomes part of their emotional memory and they feel and learn from the story as if it was ...

The ability of rainmakers to move between firms has always been an important selling point. But rainmakers often hit their hea...

Without further regulatory action, emergency water rules put in place this summer will expire early next year. By Jeremy Jungr...

Pepsi Beverages Co. reached a settlement Thursday with an Oakland-based nonprofit that alleged the company was not warning con...

Master of Ceremonies and comedic actress Kate Flannery led the audience in a chant of Ivy Kagan Bierman's name Wednesday night...

Sacramento County Superior Court judges elected Assistant Presiding Judge Kevin R. Culhane to become the court's next presidin...

Baker & McKenzie LLP has fended off a $15 million class action suit in a case brought by investors who alleged the firm in...

Trial continued Thursday in federal court with the presentation of covertly recorded video in the case of a disgraced attorney...

Nancy Wieben Stock likes the interplay between attorneys, but does not enjoy lawyers not sharing information with each other. ...

Recent cases have raised questions about the validity of a common settlement agreement procedure and created uncertainty about...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Thursday he plans to bifurcate liability and damages issues in the landmark copyright i...

Only a sales ban will do, because a federal jury's $119 million damages award wasn't enough to punish Samsung Electronics Co. ...

Sparks fly in closing arguments of a trial pitting a pension benefits company against several of its former brokers and suppor...

For Mark D. Baute, the managing partner of Baute Crochetiere Gilford LLP, there are few things more interesting than the insig...

Among attorneys recently disciplined by the Supreme Court or the State Bar Court four were disbarred due to default. Two were ...

While the two practice areas have always been linked, stricter laws, harsher enforcement, and the narrowing of types of crimes...

Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel VSP Global Rancho Cordova ...

In a case that could further define legal access to public agencies, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the city of H...

The proposed settlement moves responsibility from the U.S. to a Fresno-based water district to manage contaminated irrigation ...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. LaPorte of the Northern District has sent a putative class action against Lyft Inc. to arbi...

The San Diego County Bar Association filed a brief with the California Supreme Court supporting the city of Los Angeles in a c...

Fifteen people were indicted Tuesday in a $150 million medical insurance fraud scheme in what Los Angeles County District Atto...

Attorney Richard Medina Jr. plead guilty in federal court to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business that illegall...

Former analyst alleges the company's ranking system, where only a set number of employees can be in the top tiers, leads to un...

JAMS Inc. added two prominent retired judges, Steven A. Brick of Alameda County and Richard Kramer of San Francisco County, to...

With 18 words, a proposed amendment to the National Labor Relations Act could clear up some of the murk and confusion of labor...