One month after his acrimonious departure from heavyweight plaintiffs' law firm Girardi Keese, former U.S. District Judge Step...

Recent reports that Gov. Jerry Brown is interviewing candidates for the state Supreme Court have raised court-watchers' hopes ...

Barnes & Thornburg LLP continues expansion of its Los Angeles office, grabbing six more lawyers from Akin Gump Strauss Hau...

Vice President and General Counsel, Mills College in Oakland ...

Arnold Mednick can't use his sleight-of-hand skills on juvenile cases, though he'd sometimes like to.

Many criminal defendants fall victim to an unknown procedural rule that makes appealing their convictions practically impossib...

The rapid ascension of social media has courts struggling over civil discovery issues. By William K. Pao, L. David Russell, an...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision providing Miranda rights to children will hopefully divert referrals of minor offenses to the ...

In a case with ramifications for organized labor, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it weight whether a union in Califor...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider if law enforcement's use of warrantless GPS tracking devices to surveil suspe...

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will weight whether a condemned state prisoner is entitled a new court-appointed lawyer ...

The judiciary's lobbyists have given lawmakers a wish list of demands they would like to see met if the Legislature cuts the j...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to hear the meat industry's challenge to a California law that calls for swine that are ...

Proponents of Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, announced Monday they will appeal Northern District Chief Judge Ja...

The U.S. Supreme Court summarily reversed a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Monday that had struck down a requir...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear the Obama administration's case for restoring the federal regulations gov...

State courts do not have jurisdiction over foreign manufacturers for products sold in the U.S. by third-party distributors, th...

An economics consulting company quantified the widely held belief that the United States is injecting too many new lawyers int...

A Muslim woman who says she was fired by Abercrombie & Fitch subsidiary Hollister Co. for refusing to remove her religious...

The California Public Utilities Commission has accelerated deliberations on proposed rules for new energy storage facilities t...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held Monday that state courts have no jurisdiction over foreign subsidiaries of an American...

In a challenge to a patent ruling brought by the Obama administration, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider the ri...

Matthew D. Powers' decision to leave Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP to form his own small plaintiffs' firm after he made a car...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether states are immune from claims for money damages made under a provisio...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up a Los Angeles County deputies' challenge to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court...

Bruce Bennett is representing the Los Angeles Dodgers in its Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection case, filed in the District of D...

Smarting from a judge's comments impugning its integrity for objecting to a massive class-action settlement, Consumer Watchdog...

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt two law firms a defeat Monday when it decided not to inquire into the circumstances allowing for ...

A state audit has faulted the San Francisco County Superior Court for doing a poor job of keeping track of its money and acco...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to hear a dispute over a legal avenue that generic-drug companies use to get their produ...