The Department of Homeland Security said there would be an investigation. But so far little has been disclosed about the killing last month.

Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles

Bloomberg Law reporters attended 55 bond hearings in five states in February and March to chronicle proceedings before immigration judges. They offered a window into an uneven system beleaguered by an...

Bill Essayli lost his title as acting US attorney in Los Angeles this week in a court ruling that will have almost no impact on his power in the office and provides little incentive for the Trump admi...

Criminal case specialists who aid judiciary-funded defense lawyers are cutting costs and refusing assignments after four months of working without pay, prompting lawyers to request case delays.

Edison International‘s Southern California Utility unveiled a final Eaton Fire compensation plan Wednesday that sweeps in more residents but leaves unchanged its repair offer for smoke-damaged standin...

Bill Essayli was unlawfully serving as the Central District of California’s acting US attorney a federal judge said Tuesday, disqualifying him from the role while permitting him to stay on as a top su...

Hundreds of Eaton Fire survivors have organized to demand Edison International strengthen its compensation program for those impacted by the deadly wildfire that started near one of its Los Angeles ar...

In the three-plus months Bill Essayli has run the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Office, he has ignored and overruled the recommendations of senior prosecutors, instructed staff to disregard Justice Depart...

Months after fire tore through Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood, homeowners are struggling to get reimbursed — not for houses reduced to rubble, but for the damage of smoke and toxins in th...

Online retail giants like Apple and Walmart gain the most from tax-sharing deals with California cities, but a closer look at the data shows that car dealers and other local businesses end up with the...

The performance of newer lawyers who go through alternative licensing, together with an upcoming deadline for adopting a new bar exam, is raising the bigger question of whether prospective lawyers’ ab...

California State Bar investigators are in touch with former clients of L.A. attorney Gloria Allred’s firm—famous for taking on high-profile, feminist cases—the first step of a winding, secretive attor...

As the Trump administration’s deportation efforts ramp up, unions are increasingly on the frontlines with workers in protest despite limited options and evolving court precedent.

Tom Girardi, the infamous ex-lawyer convicted for stealing millions of dollars from his clients, was sentenced Tuesday to 87 months in federal prison.

The California Bar systematically failed to provide accommodations on the February Bar exam, violating the rights of test takers with disabilities, a coalition of disabled examinees said in a letter t...

The independent data scientist that used ChatGPT to develop multiple choice questions for the new California State Bar exam was promised payment of more than half a million dollars for its work under ...

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Convicted ex-lawyer Tom Girardi was hospitalized Wednesday for “liver dysfunction,” his attorneys said in an emergency filing stating the 85-year-old will miss a hearing scheduled Thursday over whethe...

California State Bar Executive Director Leah Wilson, who faced mounting calls to resign after the disastrous February Bar Exam, will not seek reappointment when her contract ends in July, the Bar anno...

A California State Bar test consultant used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to develop 29 of the February Bar Exam’s 200 multiple choice questions, according to a petition filed late Tuesday with the state’s Supreme...

Los Angeles residents have more confidence in their state trial court than any other governmental institution.

The California judge who shot his wife after a drunken argument was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder.

Whether it stays that way is up to Trump.

A California State Bar lawyer who worked on admissions left the agency last week, marking the first departure of a high-ranking staff member involved in the February 2025 Bar exam.

Rep. Darrell Issa targeted Marbury v. Madison in remarks at a Federalist Society conference, saying it’s time to consider whether to “rein in” the 1803 decision at the core of judicial power.

A judge declared a mistrial in the case of California state Judge Jeffrey M. Ferguson, who faced a murder charge for drunkenly shooting and killing his wife with his concealed carry Glock pistol in fr...

The California state judge who shot his wife and texted his staff, “I just lost it. I just shot my wife,” clearly murdered her, a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday, asking them to use common sense.

A California state judge in Orange County, at least ten times, bullied and made offensive comments to women, people of color, and inexperienced attorneys in his courtroom, according to a disciplinary ...

Ninth Circuit precedent—set in lawsuits brought by San Francisco and Santa Clara County during the first Trump administration—is on the side of localities again seeking to stave off threats to their f...

After the Supreme Court weakened a key piece of the Voting Rights Act, voting discrimination cases are not just harder to bring to court but dramatically so, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis and ...

If President Donald Trump continues to defy court orders, Democratic attorneys general will move to hold him in contempt of court, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said Tuesday.

A Massachusetts federal judge has temporarily blocked prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men’s prison and halting her medical care.

A California judge said a lawyer should be disbarred for helping cover up a scandal involving the country’s largest utility, and later trying to hack the personal messages of a judge and lawyer involv...

California’s Supreme Court is ready to intervene again if the federal government sends immigration enforcement agents to state courthouses.

Edison International Inc.‘s Southern California utility has until Friday to produce data from the four circuits closest to where the deadly Eaton fire started.

Los Angeles courts are largely moving ahead with hearings and trials as residents across the county flee raging wildfires burning for an eighth day.

Attorneys for a partygoer who says he was seriously injured by a drunk, underage guest during a gathering at US District Judge Mark C. Scarsi’s residence have asked to dismiss the state court case aga...

US District Judge Mark C. Scarsi was sued in Los Angeles state court over a high school party hosted at his home where a guest was allegedly assaulted.

A San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company fails to allow workers adequate time to develop safeguards, including drafting potential responses to questions about self-harm and violence that ...

Prosecutors are asking that convicted felon Tom Girardi be sentenced to 14 years in federal prison, according to a memo filed Friday.

The California bar is upholding long-held standards in a memo stating that applicants who were disciplined for participation in campus protests may receive moral character inquiries, a state bar commi...

Legal aid organizations filed a lawsuit with California’s Supreme Court demanding an option to electronically record proceedings be made available statewide for low income litigants, as the state’s co...

Victoria Kolakowski became the nation’s first openly transgender elected judge in 2011, and is heartened when people seek her out as a mentor or say she inspired them to practice law.

Victoria Kolakowski became the nation’s first openly transgender elected judge in 2011, and is heartened when people seek her out as a mentor or say she inspired them to practice law.

Victoria Kolakowski became the nation’s first openly transgender elected judge in 2011, and is heartened when people seek her out as a mentor or say she inspired them to practice law.