The state high court weighed in on what happens to active cases when a law firm goes bankrupt, ruling Monday that defunct fir...

Support is growing for a concept that supporters believe would guarantee equality in Hollywood projects, but attorneys say a t...

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has charged two lawyers who represented the jailed music executive Marion “S...

The 3rd District Court of Appeal has reversed a years-old lower court decision, saying a fee on water permit holders is not an...

Three Southern California municipalities have sued a transnational agency for failing to stop pollutants from Mexico from flow...

A state court judge has ruled against the national chapter of a fraternity, saying it can’t shed its negligence in a 2014 hazi...

Celebrity divorce attorney and author Laura A. Wasser has launched an iOS platform, offering couples a happily ever after ... ...

An Arizona case addressing the Obama-era DACA program has been pending before the high court for nearly a year. Challenging th...

Attorneys for State Auditor Elaine Howle have filed a request to take their appeal against the Commission on Judicial Performa...

The act, intended to stop traffickers, could have the opposite effect, according to critics.

Real estate and investment firm CBRE filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against former employees, accusing them of stea...

A jury has ruled in favor of a former deputy district attorney in a discrimination retaliation lawsuit against Napa County, aw...

An attorney who specializes in recovering art looted by Nazis has set his sights on a more contemporary prize: an FBI search w...

The land developer Colonies Partners LP has filed an $80 million lawsuit against San Bernardino County, alleging conspiracy, r...

Lincoln Law School of San Jose has opposed a peer institution’s application to come to the city

Gov. Jerry Brown’s choices have diversified the state judiciary, but the bench does not reflect the state population.

In a significant victory for activists trying to protect California’s sea otters, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled ...

Elan Zektser, who completed five trials resulting in life prison sentences last year, was named the 2017 Countywide Prosecutor...

UC Berkeley has announced it reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to amend cam...

A Los Angeles federal judge denied Snap Inc. a quick win in a patent infringement lawsuit that targets one of the core technol...

A group of Vietnamese refugees with criminal convictions has sued the federal government over their prolonged detention in wha...

San Diego Deputy DA Wendy Patrick started playing violin before kindergarten.

Attorneys charged with defending an African-American alleged gang member in a death penalty murder case moved to disqualify th...

A U.S. judge has commented for the first time on Orange County’s jail informant controversy, chiding federal prosecutors.

Attorneys packed the aisles of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow’s courtroom, forcing his clerk to bring out ad...

A workplace review committee organized by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the wake of former Judge Alex Kozinzki’s re...

A coalition of local governments, water agencies and environmentalists have sued to the State Water Resources Control Board, c...

A federal judge seemed all but certain Wednesday to allow lawsuits filed by California and San Francisco against the federal g...

A federal judge has reopened discovery in a challenge to the cash bail system in San Francisco on Wednesday, more than three y...

Thomas Friel, the former head of Cooley LLP’s intellectual property litigation group, has moved to King & Spalding LLP. Fr...