(Subscription required) Grodin, an Oakland native, spent decades shaping labor and employment law and teaching new lawyers.

Alarmed by President Trump’s unprecedented effort to punish law firms he doesn’t like, UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky emailed nearly 200 fellow law school deans across the country last month, asking them to join him in condemning the attacks.

(Subscription required) The state Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a closely watched case that could determine whether auto manufacturers like Ford can compel arbitration in lemon law disputes--despite not signing the buyer's sales contract.

(Subscription required) The collision between the ancient practice of legal reasoning and AI algorithms that can simulate it with uncanny precision - but without understanding what the law fundamentally is - raises profound questions about the future of justice itself.