Forget the LSAT -- some of California's newest lawyers got their degree the way Abraham Lincoln did.

Lawyers sometimes appear in civil court as litigants, not advocates. Sometimes they lose and are assessed money judgments. Rar...

The California Supreme Court has been asked to review the case of Wayne Hsiung, the attorney-turned-activist convicted over "o...

The new issue of the California Supreme Court Historical Society Review features a posthumous account by Jake Dear, the court'...

The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, reversed a 1st District Court of Appe...

The California Supreme Court heard oral argument June 3 on a writ petition by legal aid groups challenging Government Code sec...

Jake Dear, the California Supreme Court's chief supervising attorney who served three chief justices across a distinguished 40...

The California Supreme Court is weighing a pair of voting rights cases over Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco's seizure of ...

The California Supreme Court, partially reversing its 1977 Solberg decision, ruled unanimously in J.O. v. Superior Court that ...

The California Supreme Court heard a rare oral argument in the discipline case of attorney Thomas John Spielbauer, weighing wh...

California's Supreme Court has issued a sweeping mandate requiring courts to set bail at amounts actually affordable to defend...

A unanimous California Supreme Court ruled that the Coastal Commission overstepped its authority by blocking a San Luis Obispo...

Two cases before the California Supreme Court are set to test who has power over the state's elected sheriffs -- one pitting t...

The California Supreme Court's grant of review in Yeh v. Twitter gives the justices a chance to reinvigorate the state constit...

A backpack bombing at a Santa Maria courthouse and rising threats against judges have pushed California's chief justice and Ju...

California has rolled out a new annual civility oath for its 200,000-plus lawyers and is exploring whether judges should forma...

The California Supreme Court has agreed to revisit its 1988 Elden v. Sheldon ruling that bars unmarried cohabitants from suing...

Twenty years after California's last execution, the state Supreme Court is grappling with two major death penalty challenges -...

California's Supreme Court and the 9th Circuit are both reexamining how judges set attorney fees, with one ruling that small-f...

The California Supreme Court is weighing whether a drug company can be held liable for keeping a safer medication off the mark...

The California Supreme Court issued 50 opinions last year -- down from 125 two decades ago -- and veteran appellate attorneys ...

Conflicting appellate rulings over whether California cities can charge heavy water users more to encourage conservation have ...

A homeless man spent six months in jail on a burger-joint theft charge he couldn't afford to bail out of -- and his case is no...

A 2018 California Supreme Court case over a negative Yelp review produced a divided bench and a ruling that has shaped the lim...

A new California law meant to fix decades of racially biased jury selection is drawing pushback from lawyers who say it's unwo...

The California Supreme Court is taking up a novel legal maneuver that could let workers sidestep arbitration entirely -- and t...

A $60.5 million settlement over Tinder's age-based pricing highlights the enduring punch of a 66-year-old California civil rig...

A retiring appellate justice used his farewell speech to publicly scold the California Supreme Court for writing long, murky o...