More than 600 test takers withdrew from Tuesday’s bar exam after the State Bar revealed an accidental leak and released the es...

A Chinese company exported huge amounts of aluminum to the United States disguised as “pallets” to avoid customs duties of up ...

Retail giants Amazon, Target, Ikea and Walmart are targets of multiple patent infringement lawsuits filed in Los Angeles Tuesd...

Judges and juries will no longer be able to consider a plaintiff’s race, ethnicity or gender when calculating civil damages fo...

A U.S. judge vacated the conviction and sentence of a terrorism suspect imprisoned for 14 years.

Some Wells Fargo & Co. shareholders who won a $320 million settlement over the fraudulent creation of millions of fake acc...

Alameda, San Francisco and Los Angeles counties were suggested as alternatives to Santa Clara County, where the defendant, Gil...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Tuesday that prevents the State Bar from considering applicants’ mental health records during ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing statement on a bill requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns was accompanied...

Appellate court orders San Diego County to vacate its approval of a map for the subdivision of the 1,400-acre Hosking’s Ranch ...

Hinerfeld is remembered as a principled, ethical attorney who believed in justice above all other things.

While attorneys for Capitol Records Inc. said Tuesday they made only about $630,000 in profits from Katy Perry's 2013 hit "Dar...

A pair of parking staff members at UC San Diego filed suit Tuesday against the school and a Teamsters union, claiming their Fi...

A Southern California man sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting to kill several officials including U.S. District Judge...

Three drugmakers reached a nearly $70 million settlement with California Monday over anticompetitive practices in which they p...

A federal jury ruled unanimously Monday that pop star Katy Perry’s song, “Dark Horse,” infringed a 16-second portion of a song...

San Diego Gas & Electric Co. should not be allowed to pass on to ratepayers $379 million in settlements paid to victims of...

The state Supreme Court reversed an appellate court ruling Monday and made it easier for plaintiffs to obtain class certificat...

In announcing his labor and employment policy platform last week, South Bend, Ind. Mayor and presidential candidate Pete Butti...

The retired federal judge who mediated a settlement between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and a class of ratep...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark V. Mooney upheld a defense verdict that barred plaintiff Shailesh Jogani from suing his ...

Veteran white collar defense and tax attorney Nathan J. Hochman has made the jump to Browne George Ross LLP, a move he says wi...

For the first time ever, the State Bar released bar exam essay topics to all 9,000 test takers in an email Saturday night.

Lawsuits challenging the approval of a housing development in a remote part of San Diego County citing the threat of wildfires...

An attorney representing the City of Oakland in its recently dismissed suit against the Oakland Raiders NFL team said the case...

In a case with ramifications for class action certification cases across California, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rev...

The judge who oversaw the most recent trial against Monsanto departed from others who have tried the cases, firmly agreeing th...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison Co. said Thursday they would pay into a multibillion dollar wild...

California’s ban on so-called bullet buttons does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal judge has ruled.

The man sent 2 million malicious phishing emails, which were answered by hundreds of court staffers disclosing their passwords.