By passing over nonviolent third strikers for Proposition 57’s early parole consideration, the California Department of Correc...

A state lawmaker has introduced a bill to extend an amnesty program for fines and fees by another six years.

George Leal, who worked for the bar for more than eight years, steps down later this month.

A class action was filed Thursday against the Trump administration challenging what it says is the government’s practice of de...

A Los Angeles County judge has taken charge of the task of handling sexually violent predator cases as quickly and fairly as p...

Justice Elwood Lui of the 2nd District Court of Appeal said the bar needs additional funds

Attorneys representing LinkedIn Corp. and a data analytics company that aggregates information from the networking site’s publ...

The most recent legislative and legal challenges to President Donald J. Trump’s immigration agenda from California are focusin...

A federal jury has awarded $33.5 million, including $18 million in punitive damages, to the family of a man fatally shot by a ...

Continuing a series of opinions upholding the enforcement of arbitration agreements, an appellate court panel reversed a trial...

To commemorate the arrival of its new retail practice team, Steptoe & Johnson LLP hosted a party at pingpong social club S...

Buchalter shareholder Eric Kennedy and Allen Matkins partner Charles Jarrell co-founded the rock group Attractive Nuisance in ...

Theranos Inc., a Palo Alto blood test developer, and its CEO have agreed to settle “massive fraud” charges brought by the Secu...

The Sacramento-based school plans to reduce its full-time faculty by about 25 percent through voluntary buyouts to free up fun...

Orange County District Attorney Anthony J. Rackauckas has questioned the fairness of the now-appellate court justice who dismi...

In a recent filing in the appeal over U.S. District Judge William Alsup’s injunction preventing the government from dismantlin...

Attorneys for the popular dating app Tinder hope the state Supreme Court will overturn an appellate court’s decision ruling th...

A San Francisco federal judge said he was skeptical about the plaintiffs’ ability to show causation at an evidentiary hearing ...

In the courts and the Legislature, attorneys and legislators who want to replace the money bail system are being asked what wo...

Juice company Mott’s LLP has sued a vape company for allegedly co-opting its juice box design to brand an apple-flavored, nico...

Jeffrey A. Rosenfeld and Grant P. Alexander joined as partners, along with counsel Rachel E. K. Lowe and senior associate Sean...

Although the volume of securities class settlements has remained steady, the dollars involved have dropped substantially, a ne...

Federal prosecutors said three trials is unusual, but some perjury charges were tried just once.

As McGregor Scott, returned as U.S. attorney for California’s Eastern District, finds himself grappling with new twists on ol...

Months into workplace environment review, the federal judiciary’s Workplace Conduct Working Group announced a list of proposed...

The federal appellate judiciary witnessed an overall decrease in filing activity last year, according to numbers released by t...

Judge Kim G. Dunning concluded the CEQA dispute before her is unique from all other cited case law because it involves a devel...

A Los Angeles County judge dismissed most causes of action against a defendant in an alleged $100 million cryptocurrency Ponzi...

A judge threw out a federal whistleblower suit alleging that a cartel of California cement companies had conspired to fix pric...

More nonviolent drug criminals could avoid California prisons next year under a bill passed by a key Senate committee.