As widely expected, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday morning.

A state Supreme Court committee has opened the door for members of the judiciary to become more involved in transforming the c...

A class action filed Tuesday accuses insurance companies of conspiring to fix prices and inflate bail bond premiums, a landmar...

Defense counsel for Southern California Gas Company is seeking to remove Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazu...

The best tactics lawyers can employ when corporate attorneys bring them onto a case is know their stuff and stay in their lane...

A federal jury has awarded Jet Edge, a Van Nuys-based private aircraft charter company, an $11.9 million verdict against a for...

A legal effort to block a terror-information sharing program used to track individuals the government finds suspicious suffere...

A complaint filed by a proposed class of asylum seekers, who are asking a judge to enjoin the government to provide them with ...

The California Lawyers Association will soon assume five of the State Bar’s 11 seats in the American Bar Association’s policym...

A federal jury has found personal injury attorney Stephen J. Dougan guilty of corruptly obstructing an IRS audit.

Before Yahoo Inc. can finalize a $50 million settlement with users affected by a series of data security breaches, company off...

In his remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute, Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo E. Strine said working people ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation engaged in a “systemic misuse” of information provided by confiden...

The American Bar Association’s policy-making body rejected a proposal to raise bar passage standards, though the legal educati...

The firm has named litigator Clay James office managing partner in San Francisco.

San Diego County prosecutors expect to release a plan for mental health diversion initiatives within the next two months.

A security company agreed to pay $130 million Monday to settle a long-running dispute with former security officers.

A defamation lawsuit filed by the author of “Thirteen Reasons Why” against his former writers group said the organization fals...

Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP hiked the number of plaintiffs to six in an amended gender discrimination lawsuit against Morrison &...

A bill proposed last week would require state Supreme Court and appellate justices to file candidate statements when standing ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appears interested in a recent circuit split over how its own precedent applies to securities that allo...

With its new conservative majority, the National Labor Relations Board reaffirmed its adherence to the traditional common law ...

The governor, plaintiffs’ attorneys, and an institutional investor are urging the utility to wait, but PG&E is expected to...

Work in the Criminal and National security divisions continued unabated.

The action is the first under a new state law that allows state housing officials to refer alleged violators to the attorney g...

The State Bar will drop $5.4 million in capital improvement expenses in an effort to reduce the projected deficit for 2019.

The Trump administration’s decision to require some asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while they wait for hearings in immigra...

Litigator Deborah L. Stein has joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a partner in Los Angeles after two decades at Simpson...

For the second consecutive year, the conference’s keynote address was derailed by a federal government shutdown. SEC Commissio...

Making online court records free would only improve the federal judiciary and the greater public’s access to it, according to ...