The State Bar will distribute a record $79.1 million in legal services funding to 100 nonprofits in 2020, the agency announced...

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim said while he is committed to improving comity among nations, the division will not ...

Kanye West has flipped to Bird Marella at a critical moment of litigation with his estranged publisher EMI April Music Inc.

The Legislature passed a bill aimed at winding down private prisons in California but a court order limiting how many inmates ...

In a case that has spanned two countries and more than 20 years, Judge Edward Davila declined to enforce a French court's orde...

Taking the stand in his own defense in a criminal case for surreptiously videotaping officials at Planned Parenthood and stem ...

As Assembly Bill 5's passing in the Legislature signals a possible sea change in how millions of California gig economy worker...

With the Supreme Court growing less amenable to human rights suits brought by foreign plaintiffs under the Alien Tort Statute,...

A superior court jury in San Bernardino has delivered a $60 million verdict to the parents of a teenager killed at a school c...

Utah has beaten California to the punch in embracing measures that will open up its legal marketplace to nonlawyers and drasti...

Unpaid wage awards are not civil penalties and therefore are not recoverable through Private Attorney General Act claims, the ...

A bill that strengthens regulations on pretrial assessment services in anticipation of coming changes in the bail system passe...

With SB 206 headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, California may deliver the first major blow to the NCAA and its strident effor...

Retired Superior Court Judge James A. Bascue, who over his 35-year career rose from prosecutor to presiding judge before havin...

ADR Services neutral Michael Balmages loves to share his passion for the night sky.

Prosecutors’ and defense attorneys’ disagreements about the bill’s likely effects continued after its passage Wednesday.

After clearing the concurrence vote in the Assembly floor Thursday afternoon, AB 1215, which bans law enforcement from using f...

A panel of Commission on Judicial Performance special masters Thursday denied Justice Jeffrey Johnson’s motion to strike the t...

Capping off four new partner hirings at WilmerHale this week, three former Foley & Lardner attorneys are joining WilmerHal...

The video game giant has recently increased it’s enforcement actions against alleged video game pirates.

Justice Jeffrey Johnson was recalled as the last witness in his Commission on Judicial Performance hearing Wednesday and testi...

Contentious litigation over profits from the hit TV series "Bones" ended quietly with an undisclosed settlement Wednesday.

StarKist Co. will pay a $100 million criminal fine for its role in a canned tuna price-fixing scheme, a federal judge ruled We...

SB 707 would do two very different things if it becomes law: one relating to arbitration contracts, the other to the diversity...

A judge on Wednesday rejected a proposed prosecution gag order to block anti-abortion defendants — and their lawyers — accused...

The bill invokes the Cartwright Act, a state antitrust law, and applies it to drug makers. But the situation AB 824 addresses ...

A bill that could switch millions of California gig economy workers from independent contractors to employees passed the Legis...

The writ petition is the first action in response to a state law overhaul in 2016

Conspicuous procedural exchanges between the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and a San Francisco-based district judge prompt...

The confirmed pass rate for the First-Year Law Students’ Examination is slightly lower than the State Bar had predicted in mid...