(Subscription required) California's Judicial Council will receive a presentation on a model policy for the judicial use of generative AI, marking a significant step in balancing innovation with ethical concerns, transparency, and judicial …
A Salinas-based attorney says she believes the immigrant community is feeling desperate right now, doing everything they can to secure legal status in the U.S., causing some to fall victim to scams.
(Subscription required) The California State Bar has rolled out changes to how attorneys and banks must handle trust accounts, with new reporting requirements set to take effect in 2026.
(Subscription required) A judge overseeing litigation about the Eaton Canyon wildfire urged parties to agree on evidence preservation without disrupting power restoration efforts. A temporary restraining order remains in effect until Feb. 26.
(Subscription required) A new bill, AB 715, seeks to protect California attorneys from disciplinary actions for providing legal services related to reproductive and gender-affirming care, countering restrictive laws in other states.
(Subscription required) The state Commission on Judicial Appointments on Friday confirmed two new courts of appeal justices, both of whom were rated "exceptionally well qualified" by judicial vetters. Charles Smiley, a 12-year judge of the …
(Subscription required) An email from the bar to the more than 5,000 people signed up for the exam apologized for what the agency's director has called a "messy" rollout of a new remote testing format.
(Subscription required) The governor filled vacancies in seven counties, including Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego. The appointments bring a mix of experienced commissioners, prosecutors and private attorneys to the bench.
A man convicted of second degree murder has failed in his effort to persuade the Court of Appeal for this district that he’s entitled to a reversal on the ground that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark S. Arnold violated the California Racial Justice …
(Subscription required) The Commission on Judicial Performance found Superior Court Judge Julian Bailey "exhibited a pattern of discourteous, undignified, and impatient behavior," particularly with "female and/or inexperienced attorneys,…
California joined more than a dozen other states Thursday in suing the Trump administration over Elon Musk’s informal role as the president’s personal budget advisor, denouncing as unconstitutional the tech billionaire’s assumed authority to slash at the …
Negotiated over more than six years to chart a way forward once Pacific Gas & Electric decommissions its Potter Valley powerhouse and tears out dams that have degraded the Eel River and imperiled fish species, the multiparty pact gives equal attention …
A county can be held liable for the emotional distress suffered by the father and sister of a man who was reported by the Coroner’s Office to have died when, in fact, the decedent was another person, Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held …
In the two Bay Area counties of Santa Clara and Alameda, district attorneys concerned about racism and due process in the administration of the death penalty conducted reviews of all eligible death sentences in their jurisdictions. The …
(Subscription required) Those registered for the Feb. 25-26 exam say they've been misled about the availablility of testing sites and had their site reservations revoked without explanation.
A Kern County baker violated California law when she refused to sell a cake to a lesbian couple for their wedding, a state appeals court ruled this week in a suit brought by the state’s Civil Rights Department.
President Donald Trump’s campaign to end birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants faces a huge legal obstacle: the Supreme Court’s 126-year-old ruling, in a case from San Francisco, that all people born in the United States, …
The funds, known as “indirect costs,” help universities maintain expensive labs and other infrastructure. Trump’s administration seeks to cut that funding by roughly half the current amount.
Authored by Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, SB 26 is intended to amend last session’s AB 1755, by Assemblymember Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, which itself was an amendment to California’s 1970 “Lemon Law.” The law allows consumers to sue auto manufacturers for …
A key part of California’s Proposition 36 promised to direct people convicted of certain drug crimes to treatment. Some counties are straining to make that happen without new funding.
