After 10 years on the bench, Judge Lesley Green retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday.

Civil litigator Thomas Hixson was selected as a magistrate judges in San Francisco, the court announced Monday.

Private equity lawyers David M. Smith, Robert T. Graffum and Nicolai M. Schwarz-Gondek joined O’Melveny & Myers LLP as par...

The state Legislature released more than 100 pages detailing sexual harassment allegations and investigations on Friday aftern...

Cross examination of a man accused of insider trading sparked a debate over an issue that has perplexed the judge for 40 years.

District attorney’s offices in San Diego and Santa Clara counties quietly implemented small-scale initiatives to dismiss and r...

Immigration enforcement raids across Northern California have raised questions over how a new state law dictating employer int...

In a series of filings before the U.S. Supreme Court, plaintiffs seeking to stop the Trump administration from dismantling the...

A Russian real estate mogul suffered a heavy blow last Thursday when a federal judge gutted a critical part of his lawsuit to ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s ruling that an artist cannot claim copyright violations ...

A major fish distributor has agreed to relabel its smoked salmon products so consumers aren’t fooled into thinking they’re eat...

Attorney General Xavier Becerra has raised $4 million in campaign donations since Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him to the job la...

The court affirmed unanimously that Proposition 57, could be applied retroactively to cases in progress when the initiative wa...

Adam R. Stull was a deputy district attorney in Kern County when he was convicted in 1992 of four felony counts.

For the second time this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued guidance on the scope of protections for gove...

Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP lost its second attorney within two weeks following the announcement of intellectual property...

A Superior Court judge granted the city’s request to revamp security at a South Los Angeles apartment complex, but stopped sho...

Later this month, lawyers will have a unique opportunity to get a peek behind the curtains to learn about the internal operati...

San Francisco County District Attorney George Gascón called on other counties in California to follow his lead in dismissing a...

Plaintiffs say California courts have long recognized an exception for economic loss in intentional torts.

A bill in the state Legislature could put California on a collision course with federal immigration authorities after the top ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a decision by U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of the Central District to ...

The plaintiff in a constructive termination and discrimination case against UCLA Medical Center sat for seven hours in the wit...

Barrett Daffin Frappier Treder & Weiss LLP associate Chris Chapman started playing competitive tennis when he was 12.

The plaintiff had claimed GEICO acted in bad faith by arbitrating his claim.

An appellate court has affirmed the constitutionality of the bureau, but the decision is a hollow victory for consumer advocat...

San Francisco County will dismiss thousands of misdemeanor marijuana convictions and seek to reclassify felony marijuana convi...

The government announced significant changes Wednesday to how it will process applications for asylum in the U.S. in what it s...

A business executive in his second trial on charges of insider trading told a jury Wednesday that a 2009 acquisition of his co...

California’s top judge released an approving statement Wednesday in response to a directive from the head of U.S. immigration ...