Employees of the state Legislature are one signature away from gaining long-sought whistleblower protections.

Oceanic drilling rig workers received a significant victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals when a three-judge pane...

Judicial Council for 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says that it is unable to address merits of complaints against former 9...

An attorney for Disney Enterprises Inc. argued that a federal judge should enjoin DVD rental and sales company Redbox Automate...

Persistent semantic clashes and insinuation of an anti-German bias marked a painstaking cross-examination of the plaintiff in ...

A convicted child molester whose attorney successfully petitioned for release with an argument that his client’s trial on whet...

The U.S Senate voted to confirm Irell & Manella LLP managing partner Andrei Iancu as director of the U.S. Patent and Trade...

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Christian E. Markey Jr. died in his sleep last week at 88.

After 10 years on the bench, Judge Lesley Green retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday.

Civil litigator Thomas Hixson was selected as a magistrate judges in San Francisco, the court announced Monday.

Private equity lawyers David M. Smith, Robert T. Graffum and Nicolai M. Schwarz-Gondek joined O’Melveny & Myers LLP as par...

The state Legislature released more than 100 pages detailing sexual harassment allegations and investigations on Friday aftern...

Cross examination of a man accused of insider trading sparked a debate over an issue that has perplexed the judge for 40 years.

District attorney’s offices in San Diego and Santa Clara counties quietly implemented small-scale initiatives to dismiss and r...

Immigration enforcement raids across Northern California have raised questions over how a new state law dictating employer int...

In a series of filings before the U.S. Supreme Court, plaintiffs seeking to stop the Trump administration from dismantling the...

A Russian real estate mogul suffered a heavy blow last Thursday when a federal judge gutted a critical part of his lawsuit to ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s ruling that an artist cannot claim copyright violations ...

A major fish distributor has agreed to relabel its smoked salmon products so consumers aren’t fooled into thinking they’re eat...

Attorney General Xavier Becerra has raised $4 million in campaign donations since Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him to the job la...

The court affirmed unanimously that Proposition 57, could be applied retroactively to cases in progress when the initiative wa...

Adam R. Stull was a deputy district attorney in Kern County when he was convicted in 1992 of four felony counts.

For the second time this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued guidance on the scope of protections for gove...

Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP lost its second attorney within two weeks following the announcement of intellectual property...

A Superior Court judge granted the city’s request to revamp security at a South Los Angeles apartment complex, but stopped sho...

Later this month, lawyers will have a unique opportunity to get a peek behind the curtains to learn about the internal operati...

San Francisco County District Attorney George Gascón called on other counties in California to follow his lead in dismissing a...

Plaintiffs say California courts have long recognized an exception for economic loss in intentional torts.

A bill in the state Legislature could put California on a collision course with federal immigration authorities after the top ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a decision by U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of the Central District to ...