Michael J. Avenatti’s lawyer, Ellen A. Pansky, said inactivating his license is unwarranted because the underlying conduct isn...

A Shasta County deputy public defender appeared in court Friday to face charges in a brutal attack on his own family.

The likely entry of San Francisco’s district attorney into the Los Angeles County race for top prosecutor in 2020 has exposed ...

The State Bar has not been successful in advancing a plan to force the state’s 19 unaccredited law schools to either secure ac...

A bill to raise court reporter transcript fees by about a third was amended on Friday to go into effect all at once, rather th...

The state Supreme Court decided Monday that a rule it adopted 17 years ago broadening attempted murder liability must be appli...

The origin story of the $67 million ratepayer settlement was disclosed in 500 pages of transcripts, plus exhibits, from a rece...

Although barred from litigating the Woolsey Fire matters, Quinn Emanuel Urguhart & Sullivan LLP still plans to advise clie...

Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to create a multi-billion dollar insurance fund to help shield the state’s major utilities from...

Months after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court for issuing a landmark en banc decision two weeks after t...

In two separate cases last week, a federal judge ruled that workers cannot retroactively demand repayment of past public emplo...

A federal judge in San Diego issued a preliminary injunction allowing gun shows to be held at the state-owned Del Mar Fairgrou...

Parker Mills handles legal malpractice cases for plaintiffs and defendants.

A plan to try proctoring next week’s baby bar with artificial intelligence has been pushed back to October.

An attorney representing an American electrical engineer accused of illegally exporting computer chips with missile-guidance c...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided in a six-page opinion Thursday that a lower appellate court A must decide whether a 2006 ruling...

A long-running battle between two earplug manufacturers in a trademark infringement dispute that spanned eight years, multiple...

Walmart Inc, will pay more than $282 million to settle charges the global retail giant bribed government officials in Mexico, ...

An appellate court has upheld California's law barring prosecuting as adults minors younger than 16.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines Thursday to advance Daniel Aaron Bress to a California seat ...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited answer to a case challenging Congress' authority to delegate to the attorney ge...

During a marathon oral argument session before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, judges considered the federal g...

San Francisco’s parking tax applies to state university lots, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, ending an eight-year bat...

Tragedies made Judge Juliet Boccone a better and more understanding jurist, she says

Here's a quick look at several law school commencement ceremonies from around the state.

The deal has left attorneys representing victims of those fires cautiously optimistic their own clients will see more than “pe...

In a unique question of law, Spain’s extradition request and criminal charges are based primarily on evidence provided by Nort...

Public defenders in Orange County have alleged the provider of phone services to the county’s jails engaged in a nationwide co...

Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch granted a partial retrial on evidence of malice and punitive damages Tuesday in the ...

The firm’s book of business is around 80 percent patent litigation with the rest in contract, monopolization and trade secrets...