(Subscription required) Starting with the 2026 licensing cycle, California attorneys face expanded annual reporting and compliance obligations--including attorney oath declarations, client trust account oversight, pro bono and reduced-fee service reporting and updated fee disclosures.

(Subscription required) The high court without comment denied a petition by Quinn Emanuel to overturn a Second District Court of Appeal opinion that found county leaders never approved the firm’s proposed billing rates of up to $1,400 an hour.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a convicted murderer’s rights were violated by an undercover operation in which he confessed to law enforcement agents, posing as fellow inmates, after he invoked his right to counsel and had his jailhouse conversation interrupted by a known officer who falsely told the defendant that he was about to face charges for the killing based on an eyewitness identification.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has taken the unusual action of reversing a judgment without determining whether it was correct or erroneous, telling the trial court, on remand, to dismiss the election-related petition as moot.