An unusual employment case involving Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was kept alive by a judge Tuesday, but the bench offi...

Corporate defendants will head to the 6th District Court of Appeal to challenge a $1.15 billion public nuisance judgment Thurs...

Former Chief Financial Officer Christine Wong fell victim to a phishing scam.

A seven-month trial over an alleged bribery scheme among San Bernardino county officials drew to a close Tuesday, with one of ...

Opponents of bail system overhaul efforts are pointing to the murder of a San Francisco photographer as evidence that the pret...

A program coordinated by the Bar Association of San Francisco is helping to finance and coordinate attorneys for individuals i...

A superior court jury in the first Johnson & Johnson talc powder trial in California delivered a record $417 million verdi...

A Los Angeles County judge has approved a $51 million settlement negotiated by Attorney General Xavier Becerra with Aequitas C...

An appeal that triggered an avalanche of plaintiffs’ employment bar amicus briefs did not seem to draw much interest from an a...

A defense attorney accused the state of manipulating drug-addled witnesses and pursuing “a case that should have never been br...

Experts question if the criminal justice system is conducive to uncovering discovery violations such as in the jail informant ...

A Westlake Village law firm must face a claim of unfair debt collection after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling reviv...

A beneficiary of the McClatchy family trust alleges in a trial set to begin Monday that trustees, some of whom were also direc...

Daniel Grunfeld, the former head of West Coast litigation for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, will occupy a newly created positio...

Due to Monday’s solar eclipse, some courts are going dark as jurors and judges attempt to watch the rare celestial event.

The state Department of Water Resources has been hit with at least five lawsuits since Thursday seeking to block a plan to bui...

Though several claims against StubHub were dismissed, a trade secrets misappropriation claim remains.

After a two-month hearing, Judge Thomas Goethals said his action was remedial, necessitated by ongoing prosecutorial misconduct.

The judges and justices say they are due about $40 million that was denied to them during the recession-era budget cuts.

The Commission on Judicial Performance said the San Diego jurist committed 29 acts of judicial misconduct.

An 11-year-old case that has revolutionized use of the Private Attorneys General Act may go on a bit longer, sans the aggrieve...

A San Diego environmental group that challenged a settlement over who should bear the cost of shutting down the San Onofre Nuc...

Attorneys for former county officials told two juries that have been sitting for more than seven months that there was no crime.

An Alameda County Superior Court jury has awarded a man’s family almost $13 million after concluding that a food conglomerate ...

Attorneys for the Commission on Judicial Performance and the state auditor debated Thursday whether the Constitution protects ...

The Commission on the Future of Legal Education will focus on challenges facing law schools.

In addition to the agency’s current president, James Fox, the state Supreme Court appointed Hailyn J. Chen.

An appellate court justice monitoring the bar’s spending highlighted the savings in a recent report.

Deputy District Attorney Melissa McKowan received a public reproval for dishonesty

A Los Angeles attorney scored a rare victory against the Securities and Exchange Commission in a trial on the agency’s home tu...