Sharon L. Petrosino has served as interim public defender since Frank Ospino left for an Orange County Superior Court judgeshi...

A federal judge has denied class certification to a group of plaintiffs in a long-pending lawsuit in which they accuse the soc...

A kinder, gentler Jim McBride is enjoying life in his second career as a neutral for ADR Services Inc. ...

The Court of Appeals found erroneous jury instructions created a prejudicial error in a duo’s convictions for the 2005 murder ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Palo Alto mobile home park owners who accused the city of wrongly ordering th...

In an extensive trademark case between competing pomegranate juice makers, a Los Angeles federal court judge denied defendant ...

A former student subjected to the incident during a 2010 pep rally at Bakersfield High School settled with the Kern High Schoo...

Cooley LLP plucked life sciences lawyer Mika Reiner Mayer and intellectual property litigator Bobby Ghajar, perhaps the firm's...

For the second time in less than a month, the fate of legislation that would authorize the embattled State Bar to collect atto...

Judge Karen Dixon draws on her family law background in Siskiyou County criminal court.

More than $100 million has been tacked onto a settlement deal in a Northern District case accusing several Japanese and Korean...

A former Orange County attorney who resigned from the State Bar in 2011 is facing 7 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading...

General Counsel Square One Development (San Diego) ...

A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved

Volkswagen AG's announcement that it will spend $14.7 billion to clear up the company's admitted scheme to evade government-ma...

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ross Moody knows how to dexterously put cases into context.

A state fund reserved for courthouse construction is running dry more quickly than anticipated, prompting local judicial leade...

Spark Networks, which owns 10 online dating websites, has settled two lawsuits claiming lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...

The San Bernardino County district attorney dismissed murder charges Tuesday against William Richards, the namesake for a bill...

A federal judge rejected a $1.75 million settlement between Coach Inc. and the company's sales associates in litigation over t...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would take up a foreclosure case in California that centers on whether the Fe...

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed 18 superior court judges in 11 counties on Tuesday, most of them Democrats with experience in publi...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Van Nuys) ...

John Noonen claims he was fired for making internal complaints about former bar prosecutor's actions. ...

Jay Sekulow's recent guest column, "Divided court blocks Obama" (June 24), ignores the use of executive orders by recent presi...

Former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison on charges stemming fr...

Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer, Chief Risk Officer and Secretary ON Semicondu...

The Phillips Lerner family law firm ends its 26-year life when its four attorneys and staff join Blank Rome LLP on July 1. ...

Law firm leaders and students searched for solutions to the legal industry's female brain drain problem at the Women in Law Ha...

The song "Happy Birthday to You" is one step closer to entering the public domain with a federal judge's approval Monday of a ...