(Subscription required) Less than nine months after joining the State Bar Court, Judge Alison R. Worthington on Monday laid out a detailed roadmap for what could become one of the court's longest attorney discipline trials in recent years. She set a 35-day trial and imposed strict procedures designed to keep the sprawling disciplinary prosecution of four Downtown L.A. Law Group attorneys on schedule.

(Subscription required) California's state bar has settled its lawsuit with the vendor the agency accused of mishandling the rollout and administration of the botched February 2025 bar exam, the bar announced Monday. Alabama-based Meazure Learning will pay $5.25 million to resolve claims that it oversold its ability to deliver a largely remote lawyer-licensing exam to thousands of applicants and will waive $1.36 million in outstanding invoices submitted for work on the February 2025 test.

The Supreme Court is asking for millions of dollars from Congress to draft plans for a new facility to screen visitors outside the court’s home on Capitol Hill, as security threats against the justices mount. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are scheduled to make a rare appearance at the Capitol to testify about the court’s more than $200 million request.

Div. Four of the First District Court of Appeal held Friday that a contract provision providing that the prevailing party in any litigation under the agreement is authorized to recover attorney fees covers any expenses attributable to paralegal services, highlighting that a contrary reading would incentivize higher billings and operate in contradiction to the term’s demand that the payout be “reasonable.”