The trial was scheduled to start on Friday if concerns were alleviated about his fitness to stand trial.

Gov. Gavin Newsom promoted two attorneys working within his administration last week. He also reappointed State Public Defende...

Claiming the Environmental Protection Agency failed to act, the non-profit group California River Watch sued the City of Mount...

Jack in the Box Inc. general counsel Sarah L. Super has been promoted to senior vice president and chief risk officer, the com...

Embattled attorney Michael Avenatti was approached during a break outside of a State Bar courtroom by federal agents and escor...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sought the solicitor general's position on a closely-watched appeal testing the boundaries of...

Maritime lawyers: Truth Aquatics’ failed to have roving watch, sufficient fire prevention and exit ways aboard ill-fated Conce...

Three San Francisco assistant district attorneys were promoted Monday to management positions made vacant after DA Chesa Boudi...

A preliminary injunction against the California law banning arbitration as a condition of employment remained in place after a...

The judge’s departure comes amid an unprecedented shortage on the bench.

An appellate panel ruled Friday the City of Huntington Beach must enforce a state law prohibiting the use of state resources t...

Gov. Gavin Newsom provided the judicial branch $2 billion over five years to fund new courthouses that don't meet safety and t...

Alphabet Inc.'s chief legal officer, David C. Drummond, announced Friday he will leave the company at the end of the month, co...

Supporters believe the regulatory sandbox could generate new ideas for improving access to justice.

Plaintiffs’ lawyers are starting to develop potential strategies for circumventing a complicated century-old doctrine boat own...

Abrams, who began his new Jan. 1, said with a full roster of federal magistrate judges ready to hear cases, he wants to encour...

The defense counsel alleged in its brief “an astonishing number of errors and instances of misconduct” occurred in the prosecu...

The vast majority of this money, $2.6 billion, came from matters related to the health care industry. More than half of that ...

Two new laws banning deceptive videos known as deepfakes went into effect this month. But a bill introduced in the California ...

Effective April 1, the new firm will have 1,110 attorneys in 23 offices in the U.S.

Orange County Judge Deborah Servino relishes the variety of unlimited civil disputes.

Ex-judge and plaintiffs' lawyer Paul L. Beeman says settling tough cases takes patience and time.

The company that produces "Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water" pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of illegally...

Judge William F. Highberger's ruling that independent truck drivers are federally preempted from employee classification under...

A day after former public defender Chesa Boudin was sworn in as San Francisco’s new district attorney, federal prosecutors in ...

A JUUL Labs board member has filed a proposed class action alleging the company’s co-founders purposefully tanked the vape man...

AB 1842 calls on the agency "to establish and implement a procedure to permit the electronic filing of complaints against judg...

The district court denied appellants’ motion because they prevailed on only one of 10 claims and the judge did not rely on any...

Former chief counsel of the Assembly Judiciary Committee Drew Liebert has come out of retirement to become chief of staff for ...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday allowed for a key witness in the Porter Ranch gas leak cases who has knowledge ab...