After weeks of objections from prosecutors and public defenders, the State Bar director says the agency has reversed its inter...

San Francisco public defenders say chronic courtroom congestion cannot justify delays beyond statutory speedy-trial deadlines ...

Policyholders and California FAIR Plan are at odds over when bellwether trials should begin and how broadly discovery should p...

Recent incidents involving autonomous models raise questions over safeguards, state defenses, and regulation.

A Navy veteran who challenged Newport Beach's limits on paid surf lessons secured the same five-year deal the city gave three ...

Meta claims former engineer Arturo Bejar destroyed Signal messages with former company employees that could have been relevant...

Lyft challenged two cases being considered for future bellwether trials in coordinated sexual assault litigation, citing a dis...

Retired 4th District Court of Appeal justice was "blue-collar" jurist, led court through pandemic

Writing for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero said California's chronic shortage of court reporters cannot le...

The ruling arose from multidistrict litigation before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the Northern District of C...

A New Mexico judge's landmark ruling that Facebook and Instagram constitute a public nuisance adds to mounting legal pressure ...

A Los Angeles judge sustained a demurrer to an environmental group's challenge against a proposed City of Industry battery pro...

Justice Department lawyers are taking increasingly prominent roles in private challenges to California environmental regulati...

ACE American Insurance Co. says Arch Insurance wrongly refused for years to defend the Angels in litigation over pitcher Tyler...

The management-side employment firm has tapped former Ogletree Deakins San Francisco managing shareholder Lisa C. Hamasaki to ...

After spending nearly three years building their Newport Beach boutique around trust litigation and selective plaintiff work, ...

Among them is David Sapp, who has served in Newsom's administration since 2019 and as legal affairs secretary since 2022.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter signaled he may seek a temporary compromise to avoid disrupting housing and services while...

Law firm could face malpractice liability where evidence showed its failure to supervise an associate assigned to the case and...

A federal judge ruled Nexstar Media Group cannot install current or former executives on Tegna's board while an injunction blo...

Attorneys for the plaintiff had to seek an order removing them as counsel a second time in an employment lawsuit against the S...

A California appeals court upheld summary judgment for Endeavor, ruling a consultant failed to show the company understood it ...

The union says state regulators understated the economic effects of autonomous commercial vehicles and failed to account for t...

The opinion spent nearly as much time dismantling the reasoning employed by the 2nd District Court of Appeal as it did explain...

A federal magistrate judge found that discrepancies between former players' interrogatory responses and deposition testimony a...

Justice Tari Cody is the first woman to lead the Ventura-based court. 5th District Justice Sunny S. Sandhu is the first Sikh ...

Retired Judge Jo-Lynne Lee says successful mediations begin with listening, not pressure. The former Alameda County Superior C...

The Pasadena employment lawyer declined to talk about criticisms of the ABA but said she hoped to spend time listening to the ...

A divided 9th Circuit held that the EPA unlawfully approved California's particulate-matter contingency plan by relying on a f...

The former California Supreme Court justice will oversee global government relations and public policy as the AI company faces...