The funding legislation awaits the governor's signature

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Tuesday that will phase out cash bail in California. But the fight over pretrial release is ...

Judges want to avoid using an approach that requires them to focus on the criminal convictions instead of underlying case facts.

Two bills addressing the backlog of untested rape kits make their way through Legislature this week.

An app designed to help plaintiffs’ attorneys better track the day to day emotional distress of their clients and quantify it ...

Kelly L.C. Kriebs spent nearly two decades at Sidley Austin.

The Commission on Judicial Performance censured and barred Tuesday a retired judge it said repeatedly abused the authority of ...

The lawsuit details a tumultuous seven months since the venerable alternative newspaper was bought by a group of out-of-town i...

Lawmakers want courts to cut down on the use of paper.

President Donald J. Trump has nominated Phoenix-based Magistrate Judge Bridget Shelton Bade to an Arizona seat on the 9th U.S....

In a case monitored by government entities and taxpayer rights groups, which filed amicus briefs on each side, the state Supre...

An arrest by immigration officials in a Sacramento courtroom has prompted a chorus of objections, but it did not seem to be a ...

Brooke A. Blecher, a family law specialist, and Benjamin W. Williams, a criminal law attorney, were appointed.

A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision over a viral Honey Badger video has caught the attention of 37 intellectual property p...

Attorneys for one of the country’s most high-profile soccer stars said Monday they’ve filed a wage discrimination lawsuit afte...

Halm presided over civil trials and personal injury cases for nearly his entire decade on the bench before stepping down earli...

A UCLA School of Law professor is not entitled to State Bar admissions data he has long sought to show racial disparities in t...

A court filing claiming that Verizon “throttled” data to firefighters fighting the Mendocino Complex fire in July has helped r...

The first practicing Muslim to sit on an appellate court in the U.S. was confirmed to the California Court of Appeal Thursday ...

A state appellate court in San Diego unanimously ruled that local initiative agreements may not be used to adopt private devel...

While deportation orders are typically the responsibility of the immigration and circuit courts, district judges have increasi...

If any off-brand Comic-Cons are holding firm to their name in the months since a jury found the term to be a trademark-enforce...

David R. Stepp worked for almost 14 years with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, and he provides strategic counsel on global cu...

A Orange County deputy district attorney should be suspended for six months for failing to disclose exculpatory evidence to th...

Jason P. Lee was appointed to the post by the state Supreme Court.

V. James DeSimone Law attorneys aren’t afraid of taking cases with steep odds.

LA Commissioner Sheryl Beasley ensures litigants understand the collections court processes.

Sealed documents from the Refugio oil spill criminal negligence trial reveal the prosecution team declined to disclose exculp...