Sacramento, Calif.’s Weintraub Genshlea Chediak is combining forces with San Francisco’s Tobin & Tobin, effective Jan. 1

DLA Piper continued its growth surge Thursday, adding 10 Sacramento lawyers from litigation boutique Stevens, O’Connell & Jacobs.

The California Supreme Court signaled some unease Wednesday with a Sacramento judge who ordered a man to turn over Facebook postings he may have made while serving as a juror in a gang case.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown seeks to recover $60 million in civil penalties in an action he filed against three lawyers and two companies in Sacramento County, Calif., Superior Court. According to Brown’s complaint, since early 2009 the companies sold “forensic loan audits” — computerized reviews purporting to show homeowners how their mortgage lenders had violated the law. The audits encouraged homeowners to pay thousands of dollars in up-front fees, instead of paying their mortgages, to bring lawsuits against those lenders.

Another group is peeling off from Sacramento firm McDonough Holland & Allen, effectively ending the hope that a smaller McDonough firm would emerge from its wind-down. Best Best & Krieger will be adding 18 municipal, land use and redevelopment attorneys to its Sacramento office in September.