The fund, aimed at investing in lawsuits in the United States, signals has raised ethical questions for the nation’s attorneys.

A Los Angeles political hopeful may continue his lawsuit against California’s secretary of state for barring him from designat...

Four attorneys from the recently-disbanded Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP have formed a new San Francisco-based litigation boutique.

The state Supreme Court is seeking comments on a draft opinion providing guidance on when judges running for office must discl...

A San Francisco federal grand jury has indicted Autonomy Corp. PLC's former chief executive officer and vice president of fina...

In closing arguments Monday, a federal prosecutor outlined what he said was ‘a lengthy parade of cruelty’ by the Mongols in a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court remanded a case Monday challenging mandatory bar membership based on its Janus ruling, potentially call...

A draft rule released Monday could be a sea change for how high-skilled visas are handed out and business immigration attorney...

A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury awarded at least $223 million to a semiconductor design company after concluding its ...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission San Francisco regional director Jina L. Choi, known for leading investigations into Te...

A 13-year-old dispute over a $40 million Camille Pissarro painting, held by a Spanish museum and claimed by descendants of Hol...

Trump administration policy changes around asylum have likely contributed to a year-over-year trend of increasing denials of a...

The grand jury indictment follows a plea deal by lawyer Margaret Q. Quick’s former partner.

The Judicial Council’s legislative priorities for 2019 look a lot like its goals in other recent years: more judges and more c...

It was a fairly typical breach of fiduciary duty case in Los Angeles Superior Court that resulted in a $3.5 million jury verdi...

After losing a battle for public records with the State Bar, UCLA law professor Richard Sander is suing the University of Cali...

Paul Manafort’s cooperation with the Robert Mueller probe has called into question just exactly how bullet-proof joint defense...

Gov. Jerry Brown has named 12 new superior court judges, including the fourth administration legal adviser tapped for the benc...

With two Republicans breaking ranks, U.S. Senate leaders were forced to cancel an important Judiciary Committee meeting Thursd...

Charles Stevens, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, has been appointed by a federal judge to investigate allegation...

One of India’s largest outsourcing technology companies did not discriminate against U.S. citizens by favoring Indian and othe...

Thirty five families, including a man who lost his home for the second time to a fire allegedly caused by Pacific Gas & El...

An incendiary device or firework was set off at the San Francisco Hall of Justice, causing an evacuation of the building and c...

Corporate attorney David Katz jumps from helicopters and sometimes catches the bad guy.

The longtime union-side labor attorney and partner at Schwartz Steinsapir Dohrmann & Sommers LLP died suddenly while on va...

Lawyer Joseph A. Yanny is pitting the integrity of law enforcement against the integrity of the Mongols.

Volkswagen investors claiming the automaker's emmissions scandal was not only environmentally noxious, but also singed their p...

Jay-Z claimed Wednesday that the American Arbitration Association didn’t have enough African-American arbitrators qualified to...

The firestorm over deplatforming, in which conservative pundits have not been allowed to speak in public spaces because of the...

California prison officials must continue to comply with a court order requiring timely transfers of mentally ill inmates, a f...