The question the high court is grappling with is whether judges should be required to consider a defendant’s ability to pay be...

“Given this matter is going to be appealed shortly, it would be confusing to the public to have off again, on again warnings t...

A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with Apple's petition to transfer Uniloc 2017 LLC's...

The Federal Labor Relations Authority ruled 2-1 that immigration judges are management officials who influence policy and ther...

Some legal experts say the stakes are now exponentially higher due to the greater potential compensation plaintiff Allele Biot...

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye appointed the Pretrial Reform and Operations Workgroup in January 2019 to analyze the eff...

The state Supreme Court appointed SeLegue, a partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to his new position after four ye...

Prisoners in these units are subject to welfare checks every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day, involving a beep and a metal-on-metal...

The vast numbers of drivers, combined with what plaintiffs' attorneys say were especially egregious violations, made the cases...

"I congratulate George Gascon and his team on their expected victory," said District Attorney Jackie Lacey, stating he outspen...

In Alameda County, Berkeley-based attorney Elena Condes held a statistically insurmountable lead, as did Deputy District Attor...

Mediator Greg Derin tries to learn litigants' goals and find alternative paths to meeting them.

Milbank LLP sends a demand letter to Los Angeles Unified School District seeking specific plans for starting in-person instruc...

In a letter sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom and Kathleen Allison, secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabili...

U.S. District Judge Beth L. Freeman found Santa Clara County’s directives were equally applied to secular and religious gather...

David L. Anderson, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, filed a complaint for forfeiture on Thursday.

Nixon Peabody LLP said it vigorously disputed the allegations and insisted its tax advice to the investors was correct.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra weighed in Thursday in a second case in which a woman was charged with murder for allegedly us...

Members of the Work Group to Enhance Administrative Standards Addressing Bias in Court Proceedings were announced Wednesday.

Three bench trials began in mid-October and additional trials are being scheduled through the end of the year, according to th...

Labor and employment attorneys who have been watching the issue say a number of questions now loom large.

Campaigning in part on increasing diversity in the legal community, Criminal defense attorney Elena Condes said voters recogni...

Lacey, the county’s first Black and first woman district attorney, was trailing with 46.19% of the vote.

United Airlines faces age discrimination class action by flyers who said they missed out on a 10% discount offered only to tho...

The American Bar Association in 2014 released standards that included a requirement that students in ABA-accredited schools co...

Deputy LA District Attorney David A. Berger said the tallies so far were vindicating prosecutors from recent criticism that th...

Voters rejected measures to restart affirmative action, allow 17-year-olds to vote and raise property taxes on businesses, acc...

Bay Area counties were mostly isolated in their support of upholding a 2018 law passed by the Legislature that sought to repla...

Attorneys for the defendant and the plaintiffs asked the high court to decertify the question of Dynamex's retroactivity in th...

The ruling in a challenge over the governor’s directive to send a vote-by-mail ballot to every registered voter in California ...