The former chairman of Heller Ehrman is denying allegations by unsecured creditors that the firm distributed $9 million to partners above and beyond profits for 2007.
Thirty candidates have applied to be a federal magistrate judge hearing mostly misdemeanor cases while serving in a small courthouse that is nothing more than a gray clapboard structure.
Updated: Partners in the failed law firm Heller Ehrman will have to cough up $106 million in money distributed to partners in 2007 and 2008 if unsecured creditors in the…
Following news of a $60 million deal to make a feature-length film of hundreds of hours of Michael Jackson concert rehearsal footage, a Los Angeles judge said today that he…
Unhappy about brutal budget cuts being made to help California eliminate a $25 billion deficit, officials are turning to the ultimate lobbying powerhouse. Litigators.
As Michael Jackson geared up earlier this summer for a series of planned London concerts, a $17.5 million Lloyd’s policy insured promoter AEG Live against his non-appearance “resulting from accident.”
Corrected: President Obama has nominated a lawyer known for her ERISA expertise and a federal judge from Pennsylvania for spots on two federal appeals courts.
A federal appeals court has refused to toss a lawsuit by a 50-lawyer personal injury law firm that claims another two-lawyer law firm used its copyrighted website content.
To comply with constitutional standards for the treatment of prisoners, California should release 43,000 inmates over the next two years, a special panel of three federal judges has ruled.
The California Supreme Court has ruled in an invasion of privacy suit that a company isn’t liable for installing secret video equipment in an employee’s office for legitimate business reasons.
Insufficient efforts are being made to pursue accounts receivable for the dissolving Heller Ehrman, former employees complain in a leaked letter (PDF) to the government lawyer in…
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