In what could be a huge blow to indigent defendants, a 2nd District Court of Appeal panel rejected a ruling by another divisio...

The city of Bellflower on Monday voluntarily entered a federal lawsuit in Orange County to join a regional settlement

An 11-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed chiefly concerned Monday with how a ruling in the highly co...

An en banc 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel heard argument Monday over the Trump administration’s move to block Title X...

A small group of California legislators has for years fought to maintain and expand legal aid funding in California, even as i...

A State Bar task force has yet to finalize recommendations that could dramatically reshape the legal industry by permitting gr...

The White House announced Friday two nominees for upcoming vacancies on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals — including a San Fra...

Bail agents’ attorneys say those who can afford to make bail won’t be allowed to under the new arrangements, while other stake...

Imprisoned comedian Bill Cosby must now pay more than $2.7 million in attorney fees initially awarded to Quinn Emanuel Urquhar...

The lawsuit filed Friday by California and 22 other states seeking to block the Trump administration's decision to stop them f...

The panel is evaluating controversial proposals that would permit nonlawyers to give legal advice and own legal entities.

The judges of the Sacramento Superior Court have elected Russell L. Hom as the new presiding judge. He’ll begin a two-year ter...

David Anderson of the Northern District of California is one of nine U.S. attorneys named Friday to the Attorney General’s Adv...

The legendary jurist was honored during a special court session in Los Angeles

The Beverly Hills Bar Association will install civil litigator Michael R. Sohigian as its new president at an annual dinner Th...

A Sacramento judge delayed a hearing on a restraining order sought by a state Senator against an anti-vaccine activist, saying...

Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign Senate Bill 176, a bill that would increase fees lawyers must pay to fund the State Bar,...

The first lawsuit stemming from the Labor Day boat fire has been filed against vessel owners Truth Aquatics Inc. and Worldwide...

Reacting to actions in Congress and the White House this week, antitrust attorneys said they were suspicious the Department of...

U.S. Eastern District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. ruled from the bench Thursday that a state law demanding presidential tax ...

The U.S. Justice Department has charged 26 people in Southern California, 14 of them doctors, in connection with fraudulent Me...

A salacious lawsuit against a prominent venture capitalist accused of failing to make good on a $40 million hush payment over ...

The EPA's move to rescind a Congress-created pass for California to fight air pollution is the sort of agency action some cons...

Two unlikely allies have teamed up in support of opening the door to competing proposals to reorganize the Pacific Gas & E...

Information technology company IBM Corp. accused real estate mobile platform Zillow Group of infringing seven IBM patents rela...

A federal judge recently gutted claims against the prosecutor, but a plaintiff’s attorney has vowed to amend

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said the putative class was treated individually by officers making independent judgments and dec...

Longtime Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Tom Schulte has died at 74 from complications of spinal surgery, accordin...

Plaintiffs’ counsel plan to continue pressing LASC Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl to admit the much-awaited Porter Ranch root cause ana...

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez keeps a framed picture in her office displaying the words, "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the ...