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The first week of September saw an unusual display of consensus between the California Legislature’s Democrats and Republicans...

A 72-year-old former Google employee claims the company allowed ongoing harassment and discrimination because of his age to oc...

When Elon Musk accused a British diver in Thailand of pedophilia in a highly publicized 2018 Twitter spat, the Tesla CEO was r...

While five amendments and a separate bill just passed by the Legislature significantly deem consumers the owners of the privat...

In the waning moments of the legislature session, the state legislature passed Assembly Bill 170 early Saturday morning, givin...

A former nursing director at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has filed suit alleging retaliation

A new battle is brewing in the nearly 10-year-long litigation over a cancer link in coffee, this time regarding a new law stat...

A power struggle to control opioid litigation in California includes an unusual duel between the state attorney general’s offi...

A fight to carry a firearm in public that is pending in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals looks likely to be stalled for t...

A legal showdown over a large Northern California health care nonprofit’s business practices, set to start jury selection next...

The State Bar will distribute a record $79.1 million in legal services funding to 100 nonprofits in 2020, the agency announced...

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim said while he is committed to improving comity among nations, the division will not ...

Kanye West has flipped to Bird Marella at a critical moment of litigation with his estranged publisher EMI April Music Inc.

The Legislature passed a bill aimed at winding down private prisons in California but a court order limiting how many inmates ...

In a case that has spanned two countries and more than 20 years, Judge Edward Davila declined to enforce a French court's orde...

Taking the stand in his own defense in a criminal case for surreptiously videotaping officials at Planned Parenthood and stem ...

As Assembly Bill 5's passing in the Legislature signals a possible sea change in how millions of California gig economy worker...

With the Supreme Court growing less amenable to human rights suits brought by foreign plaintiffs under the Alien Tort Statute,...

A superior court jury in San Bernardino has delivered a $60 million verdict to the parents of a teenager killed at a school c...

Utah has beaten California to the punch in embracing measures that will open up its legal marketplace to nonlawyers and drasti...

Unpaid wage awards are not civil penalties and therefore are not recoverable through Private Attorney General Act claims, the ...

A bill that strengthens regulations on pretrial assessment services in anticipation of coming changes in the bail system passe...

With SB 206 headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, California may deliver the first major blow to the NCAA and its strident effor...

Retired Superior Court Judge James A. Bascue, who over his 35-year career rose from prosecutor to presiding judge before havin...

ADR Services neutral Michael Balmages loves to share his passion for the night sky.

Prosecutors’ and defense attorneys’ disagreements about the bill’s likely effects continued after its passage Wednesday.

After clearing the concurrence vote in the Assembly floor Thursday afternoon, AB 1215, which bans law enforcement from using f...

A panel of Commission on Judicial Performance special masters Thursday denied Justice Jeffrey Johnson’s motion to strike the t...

Capping off four new partner hirings at WilmerHale this week, three former Foley & Lardner attorneys are joining WilmerHal...