The Board Executive Committee suggested 19 new members to the Ad Hoc Commission on the Discipline System. The Board of Trustee...

Old laws are playing a key role in the dispute — specifically a disagreement over whether the Employment Development Departmen...

Melinda Haag, Walter F. Brown Jr. and Randy Luskey from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and longtime Kirkland & Elli...

The move is one of the first by the Judicial Council Work Group to Enhance Administrative Standards Addressing Bias in Court P...

Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said SB 243 aims to prevent wrongful convictions by requiring judges to assess the credibi...

In an order last week, U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez also rejected Postmates' argument that SB 707, which went into ...

Under new directives put into place last month by Gascón, prosecutors must file motions to dismiss enhancements that would add...

Asked Friday why he decided to take senior status now, the 75-year-old Alsup wrote in an email: "It was a personal choice dict...

Chief Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the Southern District of California talks COVID-19 operations, future goals for alleviating case...

The findings outlined in a 16-page report released late last week came five months after Solano County DA Krishna Abrams hired...

California Supreme Court denies petition filed by special needs students .

Biden's orders seek to dismantle a number of policies from former President Donald Trump. They are forcing the Department of J...

Under her leadership, the FTC could take an even more aggressive stance in policing Facebook, Google and Amazon.

Since his inauguration Wednesday, Biden has made several moves that appear to deliver on his promise of taking a more labor-fr...

The change would allow prosecutors to charge prior hate crime convictions as strikes when prosecuting people accused of violen...

Bauer, who sat on the Central District of California bankruptcy court, will specialize in bankruptcy, real estate, business, c...

State Sen. Thomas J. Umberg, D-Santa Ana, has also introduced SB 211, a placeholder bill on annual bar fees, and SB 212, desig...

After allegations that Thomas V. Girardi stole settlement money from the families of the passengers who died in a Boeing jet c...

“There will be larger de-energization events than would have otherwise occurred under PG&E’s current standards,” company a...

The pardons, issued early Wednesday before Trump’s term ended at noon, mean Anthony Levandowski, the former self-driving car e...

The city’s current outside counsel, Eric George of Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis LLP argued in court in Octo...

The rift emerged slowly over decades, said Michael G. Colantuono, the old State Bar's last elected president--the job title we...

California lawyers have struggled for a decade to deal with the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's strong backing for arbit...

Variations on litigation finance have included settlement-advance companies attempting to cash in on the #MeToo movement by of...

The state approved the money in July to help courts cope with additional costs associated with the shutdowns and protecting ag...

The U.S. high court ruled nearly two months ago that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s limits on in-person services violated the Fi...

DA George Gascon said in his response to a lawsuit by many of his prosecutors that it’s their job to conform to the directives...

“This was a misunderstanding and both Mr. and Mrs. [Joshua] Schiller have made clear to me that he did not physically harm her...

The Wine Country Coalition for Safe Reopening based their four causes of action on state law and the California Constitution. ...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen challenged a central argument from plaintiffs that Google misled users about the scope ...