Some attorneys say the two roles are essential for someone who might permanently fill the position of the only elected public ...

Plaintiff’s attorneys say they’ll appeal a judge’s ruling that gutted their nine-claim case against Orange County.

If an arbitrator’s excoriating remarks directed at Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. executives for fraudulent self-dealing doesn’...

Tesla Inc. bought energy-storage company Maxwell Technologies for $218 million, but a new class action by Maxwell’s shareholde...

Citing “a broad spectrum of misconduct on and off the bench spanning the entire course of his career,” the Commission on Judic...

A wrongful death lawsuit filed against prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck claims a combination of race, class and high-flying ...

New allegations of prosecutorial misconduct concerning recorded calls between an Orange County jail inmate and his attorney ha...

A federal judge’s finding that male-exclusive military drafts are unconstitutional marks a substantial victory for a litigious...

The U.S. Senate voted along party lines to confirm President Donald J. Trump's third successful nominee to the 9th U.S. Circui...

Two former union members alleged that the union’s status as their exclusive bargainer violates their First Amendment rights.

While Western State College of Law and its parent, Argosy University, attempt to pull themselves out of debt, $13 million in f...

A female former shareholder at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC opposed an attempt by the firm to shunt her dis...

A Los Angeles judge has signed off on a $119.5 million settlement between Southern California Gas Company and state and local...

A federal judge on Tuesday told a cancer-stricken man arguing that exposure to Monsanto’s weedkiller caused his cancer to get ...

The unanimous decision is a win for defense counsel at Hueston Hennigan LLP of Los Angeles.

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated $3 million of an $11 million whistleblower verdict on Tuesday, but upheld ot...

The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a federal appeals court decision establishing that prior pay may not be used to justify sal...

The federal judge overseeing hundreds of cases arguing Monsanto’s weedkillers cause cancer wasted no time reining in an attorn...

There wasn't enough time in the day for San Francisco Public Defender Jeffrey G. Adachi. Adachi, who died Friday night at a Sa...

A California Indian tribe and the state’s water agencies argued in federal court Monday in a case that may have wide-reaching ...

Calling a consumer privacy law passed last year “just the beginning,” Attorney General Xavier Becerra and state Sen. Hannah-Be...

In the case decided Monday, Baker Electric argued that a trial court erred in holding the plaintiff’s PAGA claim could not be ...

A trial underway in Orange County is the first for a group of defendants arrested in a 2017 worker’s compensation fraud invest...

A judge overseeing the collective Thomas Fire lawsuits tentatively denied Monday Ventura County’s motion to quash access to ke...

Two Los Angeles attorneys, killed last week in a Kern County plane crash, were identified Monday by friends and colleagues as ...

The San Francisco District Attorney's office announced Monday it's now cleared a total of 9,362 marijuana-related convictions ...

As the only California county with an elected public defender, San Francisco has a long way to go before a sense of permanency...

Google is the first major employer to end forced arbitration in all employment cases.

Funds from assets that are not paid to victims of crimes as restitution are normally fed back into the criminal justice system...

The fight over the American Bar Association’s passage standard is set to drag on at least until May, following a unanimous Fri...