Belynda S. Reck comes to the firm from Reed Smith LLP and will help lead a California expansion.

Former deputy public defender Rahul Balaram pleaded not guilty to charges he raped a colleague after a holiday work party last...

Nationwide injunctions, a federal contraceptive health care coverage mandate and an unprecedented jurisdictional argument were...

The University of Southern California agreed to a $215 million settlement Friday in a federal class action by women alleging ...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge to a law passed last year giving the state the right of first refusal in sales of f...

A woman who says she suffered a stroke as the possible result of an errant kick at a Skrillex concert will likely have to conv...

A Superior Court jury awarded $41.8 million on Friday to a 32-year-old U.S. Air Force captain for past and future physical pai...

A judge will begin weighing evidence in this summer’s trial over whether the city of Santa Monica violated the California Voti...

A forthcoming study found that a result of a shrinking application pool, law schools collectively lost about $1.5 billion annu...

An attorney argued that his case contending McDonald’s Corp. is jointly liable for a franchisee’s labor code violations was im...

The state Supreme Court ignored the letter and appointed 7 superior court judges to hear the appeal Thursday afternoon.

Three employees of a local agency have filed unfair labor practice charges alleging they were harassed for not joining a union.

Orange County Judge Antony Ufland spends his time off the bench finding homes for dogs.

A canned tuna distributor agreed Thursday to plead guilty and cooperate in an ongoing investigation into price fixing in the p...

Attorneys for the Banc of California’s former CEO alleged Thursday a board director pushed for the chief executive’s resignati...

The plaintiff seeks $100 million, the jury was told, while the defense suggested $7 million.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided to determine a case that was returned to the immigration courts by the U.S. Su...

It’s now possible to file a lawsuit with the tap of a smartphone after the app DoNotPay began allowing users to fast-track sma...

Real estate-focused law firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Porsche Experience Center ...

Nearly half of California’s nationally accredited law schools offer cannabis law courses.

Argument in a month-long trial over an alleged stroke-inducing stage dive brought against the musician Skrillex begins Friday,...

The federal government is pushing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to finish its review of a universal injunction blockin...

An appellate court on Wednesday rejected constitutional challenges to five California Coastal Commission policies that restric...

Algorithmic risk assessment tools central to pretrial decisions about releasing criminal defendants are coming under increased...

Attorneys who represent criminal defendants in marijuana cases say a San Francisco County Superior Court appellate division ru...

Netflix argues in its defense that “legacy studio employment practices create unenforceable obligations under California law.”

A defendant’s wife gave teary testimony Wednesday before the defense rested in a personal injury jury trial involving a seizur...

Lawyers are ethically obligated to monitor data breaches and notify current and former clients should data be compromised, the...

Plaintiffs allege Facebook Inc. lied about when it learned it was misrepresenting viewership data to advertisers, did not imme...