The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will take a vote on whether to rehear en banc its rare order appointing a special prosec...

Investors suing blood testing company Theranos Inc. lost some leverage when a magistrate judge in San Jose denied a motion to ...

Boutique appellate firm Horvitz & Levy LLP expanded outside of the Los Angeles area for the first time, opening an office ...

The merger doubles Lathrop’s Los Angeles office roster.

Police officers and university administrators involved in dispersing crowds during Berkeley’s 2011 Occupy Cal protests are ent...

Since Congress created the position in 1968, U.S. magistrate judges have increased significantly and so have their responsibil...

A federal judge said he was seriously considering punishing Fitbit Inc. and its attorneys for allegedly attempting to abuse th...

Setting the stage for another state high court labor battle, an appellate court panel has ruled that the state Agricultural La...

Moral rights under Egyptian law do not extend to economic rights, a 9th Circuit panel found.

The state Supreme Court affirmed a death penalty verdict Thursday for a defendant convicted of rape and torture in an opinion ...

A federal magistrate judge was skeptical at oral arguments on Thursday about whether she should certify a nationwide class of ...

A $3.5 million class action settlement over claims that a San Fernando Valley landfill was such a nuisance neighbors couldn’t ...

A century ago, Chan Chung Wing was the first Asian American attorney to be admitted to the California State Bar. The Asian Ame...

Venable LLP hired as a partner Sarah Brooks, an intellectual property litigator who moved from Stradling Yocca Carlson & R...

Jeffer Mangels partner Mark Adams revived a creative calling to balance out his law career.

Mediator Jeane Struck makes a point of developing relationships with both sides early on.

A federal judge said he would approve the final settlement in a class action alleging Wells Fargo Bank NA employees offered re...

A federal jury correctly awarded nearly $1 million in damages to five Los Angeles county inmates who were beaten by sheriff's ...

The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Lisa A. Novak for making impr...

The family of a well-known entertainment lawyer who was killed when a distracted sheriff’s deputy ran into him has reached an ...

A judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has requested the court rehear en banc the famed “monkey selfie” case, indica...

A crop of district attorney races across California have been defined by progressive challengers, including defense attorneys ...

A trial that could potentially cost Facebook Inc. billions of dollars in damages was postponed Tuesday after the 9th U.S. Circ...

Attorney General Xavier Becerra is constitutionally ineligible to hold and run for the office, according to a lawsuit filed by...

The embattled school is leaving the San Diego property that resulted in millions in debt.

Gamers angry about the Linux operating system being removed from their PlayStation 3 in 2010 are on the verge of receiving a p...

The Trump administration will rescind an Obama-era regulation allowing foreign entrepreneurs to temporarily work in the U.S. a...

After repeated attempts over the past decade, two bills aimed at addressing the timeliness of DNA analysis of rape kits as wel...

It appears that a candidate for San Bernardino County Superior Court judge is running against a judge who enforced a restraini...