Michael J. Avenatti’s attorney, H. Dean Steward of Newport Beach, was given an advisory role in the defense.

“This is an extraordinary situation in which this court’s intervention is needed to restore public confidence in California’s ...

“This lawsuit is baseless and without merit,” Bill Ainsworth, public information officer for the state treasurer, said in a st...

City Attorney Mara W. Elliott announced the filing of a complaint to void the city’s lease-to-own agreements for the 101 Ash S...

After Girardi lost her first try at disqualifying Richards, her new attorney -- Evan C. Borges of Greenberg Gross LLP -- filed...

“As required under AB 1506, the California Department of Justice immediately took action to initiate our investigation that wi...

“If the Secretary of State’s decision is not reversed, we will see them in court,” he said Monday in a statement.

A longtime appellate attorney has accused the court of unreasonable delays in criminal cases.

The California School Boards Association claimed in a complaint Friday that Controller Betty Yee violated state tax laws and P...

U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee dismissed the Uber’s and Postmates’ constitutional challenge, concluding that Assembly Bill 5...

Many courts in metropolitan areas — including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Sacramento counties — had kept their...

In the first half of 2021, businesses spent $1.74 trillion on M & As involving U.S. companies, compared to $511.79 billion...

U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland found that issuing a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the law...

“We are seeing a trend of large companies like Sony far too often pay lip service to diversity and inclusion while failing to ...

Ronald Richards, who is tasked with finding firm assets, said in the filing that Erika Girardi collected payments stemming fro...

In its recall announcement on Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson said internal testing found low levels of the carcinogen benze...

Merrick Garland reinstated “administrative closure, which he said, “does not terminate or dismiss the case, but rather ‘remove...

Pointing to the dismissals of other lawsuits similarly claiming that Facebook holds a monopoly on social networking, U.S. Dist...

The report released this week named prominent attorneys it said had “violated the ethical rules against dishonesty, deceit, an...

Hundreds of jurors said they know nothing of Michael J. Avenatti or his criminal charges, except for a vague recollection of h...

Dennis F. Moss, an attorney with Moss Bollinger LLP who represented the plaintiffs, said many companies will have to make chan...

Matthew S. Lee, the governor’s deputy legal affairs secretary, is the new general counsel for the department. Tamara M. Colson...

“Obviously we can’t make it a condition in any settlement like this that the officer be fired,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Eric...

Some employment attorneys have said the Workplace Conduct Unit created three years ago frequently failed to review or investig...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup pressed both sides on questions relating to the validity and retroactivity of arbitration ag...

Natalie Palugyai will replace Julie A. Su as California’s labor secretary, while Stewart Knox will serve as undersecretary.

Defense attorney Brad Brian of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and plaintiffs' attorney Jennifer Keller of Kender Anderle asked...

The new attorney, Mathew S. Rosengart, a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP, wasted no time in calling on Spears’ father to...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ann I. Jones wrote of the plaintiffs’ expert, Clarkson University professor emeritus L...

The class of California Public Employees Retirement System members sued the fund in 2013 after it announced an 85% premium inc...