Gov. Jerry Brown has a rare opportunity to appoint a majority of justices on California's highest court once Justice Kathryn M...

Legal challenges to President Donald J. Trump's latest executive order travel ban picked up speed Thursday as it now appears t...

Los Angeles County is seeking a court order requiring the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources to conduct ...

Pinterest Inc. announced the hiring of Christine E. Flores as general counsel after the company's first general counsel said h...

General Counsel Pymetrics Inc. (San Francisco) ...

Kathryn M. Werdegar announced Wednesday she will step down from the state Supreme Court after more than two decades as an asso...

Kathryn M. Werdegar announced Wednesday she will step down from the state Supreme Court after more than two decades as an asso...

Greenberg Gross LLP in Costa Mesa has added a seasoned patent and complex commercial litigator who will chair the firm's intel...

David Huebner served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand under the Obama administration. ...

A former employee can claim whistleblower status under the Dodd-Frank Act for reporting legal violations internally, a 9th U.S...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismissed two of former State Bar public information officer Thomas Layton's three causes o...

A gay Mexican man seeking asylum in the U.S. will get another chance to have his case reviewed by an immigration agency after ...

California League baseball players earned class certification in a case where they are seeking minimum wage, but a San Francis...

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.

Heather Williams has been reappointed to a second four-year term as federal public defender for the Eastern District of Califo...

An Oakland federal judge has granted a trade group representing 3,330 California bail agents a limited right to intervene in a...

While recent Trump administration executive orders have stirred calls to improve legal defense for immigrants vulnerable to de...

In a rare win for mortgage lenders, a state court judge has granted summary judgment to a company accused of force-placing inf...

Seeking to exploit the maturing market of startups, tech companies, and venture capital firms at Silicon Beach, Orrick, Herrin...

The state Legislature should "weigh trade-offs" before adopting Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed halt of driver's license suspensio...

The bar wants the academic information to help study the declining passage rates on the bar exam, but both the agency and law ...

The state Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether a criminal defendant could be charged with making criminal threats despite ...

Plaintiffs' attorneys advise not to stop chasing money when it goes offshore. ...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra's decision to hire a full-time staffer in Washington, D.C. appears to be a historic...

The decision by U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton follows a flurry of activity over the weekend in which she granted a t...

Paul L. Caron, an associate dean and professor, has pledged to help the law school bolster the return on investment for studen...

After a tumultuous year of litigation, Wells Fargo & Co. announced Monday that its longtime general counsel James Strother...

Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Frederick P. Aguirre has joined Judicate West's Southern California neutral panel. ...

A former high school football player cannot sue Huntington Beach Union High School District for an undiagnosed concussion beca...

McGuireWoods LLP snagged four partners from the Chicago-based finance firm Chapman and Cutler LLP for its nascent San Francisc...