A bill to phase out state contracts with for-profit prisons by next year and end their use by 2028 has been introduced in the ...

In a boost for Covington's patent office trials practice, partner Peter Chen and of counsel Scott Kamholz joined the firm this...

The city of Newport Beach failed to conduct an adequate environmental review for a highly publicized plan to develop 401-acre ...

Attorneys and court personnel have said Steven Frankland, head deputy of the DA's branch office in Lancaster, routinely instru...

At issue in the case decided late Wednesday was whether local governments can retain their public immunity when they participa...

Betty Barry-Deal, the first woman to serve as a justice on the 1st District Court of Appeal, died on March 12 in her daughter'...

The legal executives sent a letter Tuesday in response to President Donald J. Trump's proposal to defund Legal Services Corp.,...

Before a Thursday pretrial conference, Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals said he may consider dismissing the death penal...

Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library will host their annual Beacon of Justice Award gala on April 5 in honor of 2nd D...

UC San Francisco, an expected co-anchor of the village, has also agreed to jointly develop hundreds of new housing units that ...

Forever 21 Retail Inc. will shop for defense counsel after the state's anti-discrimination employment agency sued the retailer...

Calaveras County District Attorney Barbara Yook erected a "Chinese wall" to prevent a conflict of interest, an appellate court...

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.

Attorney John J. Quinn, a cheerful lion of the courtroom and a beloved mentor to dozens of lawyers and judges, died Sunday. He...

A Tesla Inc. assembly line worker has filed a lawsuit against the luxury automaker, claiming he endured months of racial discr...

Loyola Law School held its annual Fidler Institute on Criminal Justice on March 24. ...

Sergio C. Garcia — who rose to fame when his attempt to become an attorney despite being in the country without permission spa...

Makan Delrahim, the Los Angeles attorney tapped by President Donald J. Trump to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrus...

Victorious defense lawyers won a ruling that private standards can't be imposed as law, and called out the Department of Justi...

JAMS added a disclaimer to the profiles of its neutrals that states the alternative dispute resolution provider cannot guarant...

Confusion abounds in the Trump administration's California judicial appointment process and it's unclear whom prospective appl...

In a case with possible implications for criminal cases that could lead to deportation, a Canadian citizen who pleaded guilty ...

Irvine-based Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP announced plans Monday to open its first office in New York City, where the...

After 22 years, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston still finds complex, novel litigation fascinating.

A Sacramento bankruptcy judge awarded tens of millions in punitive damages to public service entities.

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye gave an unusually fiery State of the Judiciary speech in the Assembly chambers on...

A 4th District Court of Appeal panel wants to know whether a major decision it made last year in Orange County's ongoing jail ...

A crosswalk-negligence lawsuit on behalf of a badly injured young girl ended in a global settlement of nearly $16 million in O...

Twenty-nine state courts will receive a boost in state funds to implement creative methods of improving access, collaboration ...