(Subscription required) Los Angeles County presiding judge pushes to coordinate nearly 80 silicosis cases from three counties over claims granite counters caused the disease.

(Subscription required) While law professors and test-takers agree it would improve fairness, the financially strained bar faces contractual and logistical hurdles that could complicate a return to the old format.

(Subscription required) What grounds her work in either setting is a long view - an understanding of the system's moving parts. Murillo doesn't know only the case law or the policies. She knows what it means to sit across from someone whose child has just been removed, to read between the lines of a social worker's report, and to advocate - sometimes in vain - for a client who has never had anyone in their corner.

(Subscription required) Fourteen law school deans and a key state lawmaker say they have deep concerns about the integrity of the bar exam after the state bar revealed a vendor used artificial intelligence to develop some questions on the February test.