Ballard Spahr announced Tuesday it's adding a team of litigators from Leopold, Petrich & Smith to its Los Angeles office.

The Assembly's Judiciary Committee passed a $544 active attorney fee for 2020 but expressed concern about the impact on low-in...

Chipmaker Qualcomm is taking its fight to the U.S. Court of Appeals to stay the injunction pending appeal as well as a consent...

A bill to create a $21 billion wildfire mitigation fund is heading back to the Assembly after the state Senate approved it 31-...

The first series of civil lawsuits to go to trial over the Porter Ranch gas leak are set for June 2020, nearly five years afte...

A superior court judge voiced skepticism Tuesday about whether to halt the Judicial Council’s new policies that would disquali...

Gianna Ravenscroft brings more than 15 years of banking law experience to Reliant Funding as the company's new general counsel.

A taxpayer group vowed Monday to appeal a San Francisco County Superior Court judge’s decision allowing a simple majority of v...

A bill to create a wildfire liability fund in California is one step closer to reality after a marathon hearing on Monday.

A litigation battle looms over material belonging to receiver-controlled Eagan Avenatti LLP

President Donald J. Trump’s latest nominee for a California seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals survived a procedura...

The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that state-garnished wages -- in the form of child support payments -- adversely affect a...

Michael S. Ringler is joining Skadden's Palo Alto office as a partner after 22 years at Wilson Sonsini.

As part of a major reordering mandated by the Music Modernization Act, the U.S. Copyright Office has empowered the newly estab...

Judge Andrew J. Guilford will continue working a large caseload.

The U.S. Women's World Cup win might have given the team some extra leverage heading into its next match.

Jakks Pacific senior VP of legal is back after some time away to help the company navigate in the rapidly changing industry.

Attorneys at Rutan & Tucker LLP are being sued by a former client for concurrently representing entities jointly owned by ...

A mainstay of southern California legal practice faces claims of professional negligence and fraud over its handling of a 2007...

Judges accused of misconduct can now subpoena non-parties during formal proceedings, the Commission on Judicial Performance sa...

San Bernardino County must pay $113 million to a 10-year-old for failing to monitor the household where he was being abused by...

The 9th U.S. District Court of Appeals ruled against an immigrant convicted of indecent exposure after applying the Board of I...

Over the objection of eight Republican-appointed judges, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Friday not to reconside...

Sen. Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, is seriously considering pushing a bill next year to tax services — including legal service...

A superior court judge said she will consider whether undisclosed communications between government agencies and their attorne...

Her new four-year term effectively began June 30 after judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals approved her reappointm...

A former Google senior vice president’s wife is suing to invalidate a prenuptial agreement with her soon-to-be ex-husband and ...

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined Wednesday to stay a permanent injunction blocking the Trump administration from usi...

Employees at a Washington state coffee shop will soon have to trade in pasties and g-strings for more modest clothing after th...

Qualcomm is denied their motion to delay a federal judge’s ruling that ordered them to negotiate, re-negotiate new and existin...