The campaign to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky may encourage judges to impose harsher sentences r...

Making good on a challenge issued days earlier, attorney general candidate Dave Jones has sued incumbent Xavier Becerra over h...

As the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation law went into full effect Friday, many companies were not ready.

Following the levying of a $239,000 malpractice judgment against two attorneys, both sides have accused the other of varying d...

The organization partnered with Glaser Weil LLP to bring together a group of Muslim attorneys and business professionals for a...

It is still unclear why Hillary Smith, who came to the mobile credit card payment company in late 2016 from Zenefits, stepped ...

Four deputy public defenders challenging San Francisco County judges claim their opponents have been complicit in a criminal j...

The Judicial Council unanimously approved rules to allow public access to settlements for sexual harassment and discrimination...

A San Jose federal jury ordered Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to pay $539 million Thursday for infringing five Apple Inc. paten...

Attorneys representing titans of the oil industry made their bid to dismiss a novel nuisance case brought by the cities of Oak...

Attorney Melody Mosley quickly became a tireless leader at OC nonprofit Family Promise.

In a case involving a criminal defendant’s right to subpoena social media communications of a victim or a witness, the state S...

A potential agreement with Mexico could help relieve a backlog of asylum cases pending in the United States but could also det...

The ruling came in a legal challenge to the State Bar’s interpretation by an Alameda County court employee.

A court of appeal has declined to stay a Riverside County judge’s order striking down California’s physician assisted suicide ...

The ACLU sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday, demanding information about how the agency handles data p...

Legal education observers say that schools enrolling less-qualified students is the reason for record low performance.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a Tuesday night speech he believes President Donald J. Trump could invoke his...

Professional negligence claims are common against attorneys, doctors and accountants, but a technology company convinced an Ea...

A settlement equalizing water rates between Pasadena water customers and its higher paying nonresidents has won preliminary se...

Attorneys will have to pay about an $82 cost for re-submitting prints to the State Bar.

Law professor Catharine MacKinnon, who pioneered the legal argument for sexual harassment, said the #MeToo movement is a desce...

The state Supreme Court has agreed to review an appellate case that has become a significant challenge to the money bail syste...

The firm of Newport Beach attorney Michael J. Avenatti missed the first payment on the settlement of a dispute with former par...

A superior court judge who drew an election challenge after two months on the job is the first sitting judge in San Luis Obisp...

The director-chief counsel of the Commission on Judicial Performance said Tuesday that his agency is open to compromise with t...

A year has passed since the U.S. Supreme Court’s TC Heartland ruling and the patent world has changed.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Paul Bacigalupo has been elected president of the California Judges Association, the g...

The 27.3 percent pass rate came on the second two-day exam.

The 5-4 opinion reinforces employers’ ability to compel one-on-one arbitration and deals a blow to class actions.