Core tenets of a #MeToo bill vetoed by the governor last fall have been reintroduced as separate bills, for consideration unde...

Gibson Dunn lawyers, defending Uber Technologies Inc. in an antitrust suit, claim Quinn Emanuel should be disqualified due to ...

The state Supreme Court has approved an Orange County deputy district attorney’s six-month suspension for failing to disclose ...

The state Senate has settled with a former staffer for $350,000, one of the largest payouts in the history of the Legislature.

The Supreme Court decided unanimously on Tuesday that in the presence of a clear delegation clause, the arbitrability of a dis...

The State Bar is projecting an operating deficit for the third year in a row, and is proposing a 30 percent increase in attorn...

A federal law making it a crime for people who have entered the U.S. illegally to possess firearms is consistent with the Seco...

Alice A. Lytle, the first African-American woman to serve as a superior court judge in California history, died Dec. 21. She w...

The government has no “constitutional duty” to provide ongoing mental health treatment to families formerly separated at the U...

Just four days after taking the oath, new state Supreme Court Justice Joshua P. Groban sat in on oral arguments for the first ...

A federal judge overseeing a case challenging the state’s money bail system appeared extremely skeptical of the industry’s def...

A federal prosecutor on Tuesday urged jurors to authorize the forfeiture of the Mongols motorcycle club’s trademarked logos, a...

With the plaintiff's apparent disappearance after a bid to enforce his "zombie trademark" for the name "Desilu" turned disastr...

There were 48,063 mergers and acquisitions deals announced in 2018 that totaled $4.026 trillion. More deals were announced in ...

Federal courts in California and elsewhere will continue to operate through Jan. 18 despite a shutdown, according to the Admin...

The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a qualified immunity finding made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the second ...

Attorneys at Miller Barondess LLP have reached a $1.975 million tentative settlement with the city of Los Angeles.

Blank Rome LLP has absorbed longtime boutique firm Buter, Buzard, Fishbein & Royce LLP, expanding its bicoastal family law...

The San Francisco city attorney’s office has hired The Coca-Cola Company’s former chief marketing counsel, George K. H. Schell...

New guidelines will make it more difficult to reject patents, attorneys say.

After he was sworn in as state attorney general Monday, Xavier Becerra took shots at his most frequent opponent in court: the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Analea J. Patterson, 47, as his chief deputy legal ...

An ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit has led to what attorneys and city officials describe as unprecedented change

A right of publicity case media attorneys warned would be a "nuclear bomb" for the entertainment industry was permanently disa...

The Hecker Law Group PLC has merged with Dallas-headquartered and technology-focused law firm Munck Wilson Mandala LLP.

The senators wrote in a letter to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts that recently announced measures do not go far ...

Testimony from a former Qualcomm Inc. executive detailed some of the chip manufacturer's allegedly illicit negotiating tactics...

Prosecutorial misconduct charges against former Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich have been dismissed after a State B...

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will review a recent federal appeals court decision making it easier to pursue securit...

According to annual figures required by the Legislature, these trends and their overall impact on the state bench increased du...