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When U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney ruled that California's death penalty system is unconstitutional, he cited a 1995 law ...

The anti-SLAPP statute provides that a prevailing defendant is entitled to recover his or her attorney fees and costs but does...

The objective of this article and self-study test is to review the principles and recent case authority concerning the Fourth ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has nominated his legal affairs secretary, Jonathan K. Renner, to serve on the 3rd District Court of Appeal i...

Michele M. Castillo, a longtime Ventura County deputy public defender, has been selected to serve as a Superior Court commissi...

The San Francisco 49ers lost more than a shot at the Super Bowl to the Seattle Seahawks this year. They also lost a former gen...

O'Melveny, Gibson Dunn, Paul Hastings and others plan to donate legal services to the growing population of unaccompanied immi...

A Monterey County judge has signaled he will block an oil company's bid to drill wells near Pinnacles National Park until it c...

A federal judge in Texas granted summary judgment of non-infringement in a patent case involving a group of technology defenda...

Los Angeles-based plaintiffs' firms McNicholas & McNicholas LLP and Perez & Caballero have sued the city for allegedly...

Declining to follow a local federal judge's surprise ruling, an Orange County Superior Court judge refused Friday to declare C...

As discussion on a comprehensive new copyright statute crawls forward, a major focal point will be the debate on whether limit...

This year, tort lawyers appear to be doing better than business interests in promoting bills that favor their side in litigati...

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

Gail A. O'Rane, a newcomer to Riverside's family law court, has a knack for relating to pro per parties.

Roger A. Luebs, who runs a juvenile court in Riverside, says it takes a village to help young offenders.

Should partners from a dissolving firm be obligated to pay the dissolved firm's creditors from profits earned on work performe...

This article won't teach you anything about ethics you don't already know - unless you don't know it is unethical to bribe jud...

From left: McManis Faulkner partners Michele Corvi, William Faulkner and Michael Reedy at the 16th Annual Justice Edward A. Pa...

The motion in the case of Scott Eugene Dekraai, who murdered eight people and injuring another during a 2011 shooting at a Sea...

Individual teacher evaluations related to standardized test scores are not subject to public disclosure, a state appellate pan...

Striking out to form a firm of their own in April was in many ways a natural extension of the close ties and deep experience t...

The 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the state complied with CEQA when it chose the train's route between San ...

Though attorneys appreciate George P. Schiavelli for being a proactive mediator who is quick to change tactics when necessary,...

Latham & Watkins represented Los Angeles-based oil and gas producer Breitburn Energy Partners LP in its $1.6 billion acqui...

Bryan Cave LLP partner Daniel Wheeler, left, and Federalist Society representative David A. DeGroot, a San Francisco-based spe...

The attorney faces federal prison time after pleading guilty to defrauding immigrants about to be deported and separately to h...

A motorcycle dealer who arranged for 20 separate fraudulent sales of vehicles could be convicted of theft for all 20 offenses,...

Plaintiffs' lawyers cannot be on the hook for costs to defend against bad tort actions filed against public agencies, a state ...