Last week, Justice Elena Kagan used this idea, derived from Spider-Man comics, to try to explain the Supreme Court's muddled j...

Same-sex marriage scored a major victory last week, but same-sex couples looking for marry will still face complex legal quest...

State Bar leaders say the new audit proves no one manipulated discipline case data. But auditors made no finding about former ...

The state Judicial Council on Friday adopted its proposal that asks superior courts to cut water use 25 percent. ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal reversed a man's drug conviction, ruling that testimony from an excused juror violated his ri...

The California Supreme Court has taken up a case that tests the powers of local agencies to raise money to help sustainably ma...

Five record labels, controlling about 80 percent of oldies played on Sirius XM Radio, will receive a total of $210 million fro...

A UC Santa Barbara student is suing the university, the county, the sheriff's department and the gunmen's parents for negligen...

The impact of the same-sex marriage ruling will be far-reaching - it is a testament to the Supreme Court's - and the judiciary...

"There's no there there," Judge Mark A Juhas said Friday, decisively rejecting a former Sullivan & Cromwell partner's clai...

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on Friday appointed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Luis A. Lavin as associate justice of the Se...

Alameda County Judge George Hernandez Jr. sees himself as a participant in trials he oversees.

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Nancy Ramirez's work with underserved litigants prepared her to handle a child support courtroom.

After paying more than $4 million to settle a class action suit filed against one of its policy holders, insurer Columbia Casu...

Many law practices find themselves in the uncomfortable position of deciding what to do when someone suspects or discovers mis...

A recent decisin shows why public agencies should avoid making contingent and complex final offers in eminent domain negotiati...

The U.S. high court just made it easier to prosecute child abusers by retreating a bit from the court's stringent confrontatio...

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has tapped Blake T. Bilstad as incoming general counsel, senior vice president and secretar...

A San Francisco County judge has issued a tentative ruling that would direct all proceeds of a $5.9 million settlement fund to...

For lawyers in large law firms, the number of substantive claims has inched down the last two decades. Prices swing widely but...

Another class action suit was filed this week accusing an energy company of failing to implement a safety system on one of its...

Foley Bezek Behle & Curtis LLP wins multimillion dollar settlements for its clients, based on its David vs. Goliath prowes...

How the justices got there is as interesting as the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision in King v. Burwell. By Mich...

In another sign that the state Supreme Court is showing a newfound regard for criminal defendants' rights, all seven justices ...

The State Water Resources Control Board is under attack from water users who argue they are immune to cutback orders. ...

Several of the lawyers disciplined recently were able to mitigate their punishment because of the medical, emotional or substa...

After getting pulled from the ballot by the state Supreme Court last year, the question of whether Californians can cast a non...

Delaware Gov. Jack A. Markell signed a long-anticipated bill Wednesday that amends the state's corporate law code by banning f...

This week, rather than increasing housing or services, the Los Angeles City Council passed two laws that make it easier to sei...