In a civil complaint that reads like a novel, a Los Angeles doctor claims a distant relative of a wealthy, famous family defra...

The five candidates in this year’s San Francisco district attorney election agree on a couple things: The moment is unique and...

Longtime defense attorneys known for representing major utility companies said they have switched to the plaintiffs’ side to f...

While the changes are ostensibly aimed at protecting news sites and other copyright holders from mega-conglomerate aggregators...

Anthony M. Glassman and Rebecca N. Kaufman join the firm in Beverly Hills.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a far-reaching environmental dispute testing the limits of a federal law prohibiting...

A Los Angeles judge has ordered Santa Monica to split into seven districts and hold new council elections this summer after fi...

After months of contentious back-and-forth exchanges, several public health groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agen...

Veteran patent litigator Christian E. Mammen has joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a partner in Palo Alto.

U.S. News & World Report will release a second law school ranking this year measuring scholarly impact. It will not be fac...

The pending legal battle between President Donald Trump and a California-led coalition of 16 states over his emergency declara...

An Orange County judge heard final arguments Tuesday for and against dismissing an attempted murder charge on the grounds of o...

He says NYT v. Sullivan is bad law, not founders' intent

Starting in November 2016, a post-election "Trump bump" amped up revenues for some legal aid nonprofits, most notably the Amer...

The early hearing may indicate where the court leans, but opponents of the move say their victory at the district court will b...

Closing arguments in a rare class action trial Friday addressed whether Public Storage misled customers into believing they we...

With the state’s top law enforcement official declining to retroactively disclose certain law enforcement personnel records, a...

An attorney with a history of state bar misconduct was indicted on five federal criminal charges Friday for weapons and a fake...

In a rare, uncontested wrongful death bench trial, the family of a woman brutally murdered by a Hollywood director was awarded...

Attorney General Xavier Becerra promised to sue over Trump's declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the Mexica...

An Assembly bill has been drafted to address growing concerns around “deepfakes,” hyper-realistic deceptive videos that can ea...

LA appellate Judge Sanjay Kumar listens, then takes the argument in another direction.

Bystander training is designed to train and equip those who observe problematic behavior like harassment and intervene.

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would remove financial barriers t...

A U.S. magistrate judge appointed a certified public accountant to take control of Eagan Avenatti LLP.

Immigration judges will see their numbers boosted under a budget deal agreed to by Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

The attorney formerly in charge of Apple Inc.’s compliance with insider trading laws has been charged with insider trading. Ge...

The American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Poverty Law Center are among those who filed a federal lawsuit Thursday callin...

The federal judge in charge of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s probation ordered the utility Thursday to respond to concerns ov...

Mark LeHocky, who has more than three decades of legal experience, has joined ADR Services Inc. as a neutral.