It doesn't take a chokehold or a gunshot for police misconduct to turn deadly. Prosecutorial concealment can be enough. By Jon...

An investor resolution demanding more financial accountability in light of rising exploration and extraction costs is slated f...

A senior partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers testified Wednesday that Ellen Pao was held back...

The Howrey LLP estate settled claims against 47 former partners and one law firm. The partners waived more than $6 million in ...

In 2014, litigation finance company Burford Capital Ltd. saw money committed to new investments triple, while competitor Benth...

Separate suits filed accuse Facebook, along with two health care companies of gender discrimination. ...

A hearing concerning U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II's jailing a lawyer for contempt over her representation of a mental...

Lawyers for Arena3D filed motions to withdraw as counsel over unpaid attorney fees, citing the company's impending Chapter 7 f...

A woman who claimed she was coerced into smuggling drugs from Mexico into the U.S. cannot be indicted because the government d...

Attorneys, neutrals kickstart 11th annual City of Los Angeles Mediation Awareness Week ...

An Orange County jury on Wednesday exonerated former NFL player Willie James Gault of intentionally scheming to defraud invest...

Prosecutors might well be able to overturn a judge's decision to remove the district attorney's office from the worst mass mur...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

Reaction was swift and emotional after Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals threw the district attorney's off...

Water main breaks are increasingly common as our infrastructure ages. Many seek recovery from insurance, but don't forget abou...

A former colleague of Ellen Pao at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers testified Tuesday that his wife bought the book of ero...

Deemed one of the top DUI attorneys on the Central Coast, Darryl W. Genis was slapped with a monthlong suspension and two yea...

The San Francisco Police Department has not shaken off a retaliation lawsuit filed two years ago by a former top internal affa...

A group of defendants led by Zynga Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. won an appellate court decision Tuesday that deemed a compute...

Apple Inc. has won the latest round of a five-year patent infringement fight against a patent licensing entity after the U.S. ...

NCAA's argument that student players can't be paid gains some traction. ...

San Francisco County Judge Peter J. Busch moves quickly to juggle a busy probate calendar.

The falloff in the number of people starting law school appears to be showing up as a decline in the number of new lawyers bei...

A Delaware court recently granted minority stockholders appraisal rights following the consummation of a merger, even though t...

By the end of May, the court is expected to decide whether such reverse-payment agreements violate the Cartwright Act, and to ...

One of the basic tenets learned in law school is there must be a controversy ripe for adjudication to maintain a cause of acti...

The only proper basis for a free speech claim is whether government is attempting to prevent an audience from receiving certai...

One of the lone nonunionized groups of flight attendants is alleging wage and hour violations in putative class action. ...

David Aronoff and Lincoln Bandlow, former partners at Lathrop & Gage, will join the firm's First Amendment and media defen...

Although Hong Yen Chang died in 1926, the court ruled to admit him, saying it was acting to right "a grievous wrong" from "a s...