Katherine E. Lewis, a veteran deputy public defender, is Orange County's newest Superior Court commissioner. She began Tuesday...

A federal judge blocked an attempt by NFL teams to boot a putative class action by former players who claim team doctors hande...

Prominent intellectual property attorney James H. Pooley, a past White House appointee to the World Intellectual Property Orga...

Ignyta Inc., a San Diego-based biotechnology company focused on precision medicine in oncology, Tuesday appointed Dr. Christia...

The ruling marks what appears to be the first successful challenge to municipalities charging for public access to police body...

The State Bar's most recent administration of the test students at unaccredited law schools must pass in order to later sit fo...

Lawyers in the Uber Technologies Inc. misclassification lawsuit must produce a mountain of information U.S. District Judge Edw...

The nation's largest union of retail and grocery workers cannot picket inside Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s California locations, the...

General Counsel Postmates Inc. (San Francisco) ...

San Diego life sciences and tech transactions guru John E. Wehrli has jumped ship from Latham & Watkins LLP to join Jones ...

In the face of a second defeat in its contract dispute with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Oracle Corp. has vowed to appeal — aga...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles would not have been a reality if not for the health care at...

The State Bar is increasing to $200 the fee assessed to lawyers who fail the agency's annual audit of their compliance with co...

The attorney who led the charge against Led Zeppelin in a recently resolved copyright infringement trial has been suspended fr...

The ACLU threatened to sue the Orange County district attorney's office over its response to a request for records related to ...

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Judge Manuel Covarrubias aims to run an orderly family law courtroom in Ventura County.

San Joaquin County Judge Carter Holly traveled the country before settling in his community.

As Gov. Jerry Brown's prisoner early release initiative heads toward the November ballot, the state's district attorneys — the...

When Lisa H. Meyer began practicing law in the 1980s she observed the male-dominated field around her and knew she would event...

After agreeing to settle hundreds of lawsuits by consumers and two by the U.S. government that includes buying back 475,000 em...

An attorney for Apple Inc. intentionally misled a judge about when acquisition talks between Apple and Beats Electronics LLC b...

Orange County-based WFBM LLP, better known as Walsworth, has been recognized by a nonprofit group for its high percentage of f...

The state Supreme Court established broad restrictions on expert witnesses who rely on out-of-court documents and statements t...

Sharon L. Petrosino has served as interim public defender since Frank Ospino left for an Orange County Superior Court judgeshi...

A federal judge has denied class certification to a group of plaintiffs in a long-pending lawsuit in which they accuse the soc...

A kinder, gentler Jim McBride is enjoying life in his second career as a neutral for ADR Services Inc. ...

The Court of Appeals found erroneous jury instructions created a prejudicial error in a duo’s convictions for the 2005 murder ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Palo Alto mobile home park owners who accused the city of wrongly ordering th...