In an emergency hearing Thursday, public defenders urged an Orange County judge to bar an Office of Independent Review represe...

The state Assembly has passed a bill designed to bar immigration arrests at courthouses.

A Superior Court judge showed gender bias in denying a woman’s bid for a restraining order based on comments he made in delive...

California convictions for possession and transportation of methamphetamine are not removable offenses under the Immigration a...

Two attorneys who worked on a multimillion estate plan for a dairy fortune engaged in obvious “self dealing” that they tried t...

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge tentatively approved Archer Norris PLC’s operational plan Wednesday prioritizing the transfer of...

A referendum against a bill to replace the current cash bail system was filed Wednesday by a coalition seeking to halt its imp...

A ruling in Johnny Depp's favor over an agreement with his former law firm will "force tectonic change" for Hollywood attorney...

The funding legislation awaits the governor's signature

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Tuesday that will phase out cash bail in California. But the fight over pretrial release is ...

Judges want to avoid using an approach that requires them to focus on the criminal convictions instead of underlying case facts.

Two bills addressing the backlog of untested rape kits make their way through Legislature this week.

An app designed to help plaintiffs’ attorneys better track the day to day emotional distress of their clients and quantify it ...

Kelly L.C. Kriebs spent nearly two decades at Sidley Austin.

The Commission on Judicial Performance censured and barred Tuesday a retired judge it said repeatedly abused the authority of ...

The lawsuit details a tumultuous seven months since the venerable alternative newspaper was bought by a group of out-of-town i...

Lawmakers want courts to cut down on the use of paper.

President Donald J. Trump has nominated Phoenix-based Magistrate Judge Bridget Shelton Bade to an Arizona seat on the 9th U.S....

In a case monitored by government entities and taxpayer rights groups, which filed amicus briefs on each side, the state Supre...

An arrest by immigration officials in a Sacramento courtroom has prompted a chorus of objections, but it did not seem to be a ...

Brooke A. Blecher, a family law specialist, and Benjamin W. Williams, a criminal law attorney, were appointed.

A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision over a viral Honey Badger video has caught the attention of 37 intellectual property p...

Attorneys for one of the country’s most high-profile soccer stars said Monday they’ve filed a wage discrimination lawsuit afte...

Halm presided over civil trials and personal injury cases for nearly his entire decade on the bench before stepping down earli...

A UCLA School of Law professor is not entitled to State Bar admissions data he has long sought to show racial disparities in t...

A court filing claiming that Verizon “throttled” data to firefighters fighting the Mendocino Complex fire in July has helped r...

The first practicing Muslim to sit on an appellate court in the U.S. was confirmed to the California Court of Appeal Thursday ...

A state appellate court in San Diego unanimously ruled that local initiative agreements may not be used to adopt private devel...