When a 43-year-old legal secretary was raped in her home in Los Angeles a decade ago, a Los Angeles police detective had a gut feeling that a repeat offender was…
Morgan Lewis & Bockius is adding two health care partners and five associates from the Washington, D.C., office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to its attorney roster. They include Scott…
Finding that a legal United States resident who served four years in the Navy had exhausted her administrative remedies, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has derailed…
Updated: Century Indemnity Co. says a charge of $450 an hour for an “unlicensed” associate at Latham & Watkins is excessive, as were other legal fees charged by the law…
In startling courtroom contentions today that reportedly received support from one opposing lawyer and the trial judge, an attorney for Dole Fresh Fruit Co. claimed a 10-year fraud underlies at…
So many law firms have deferred the start date for entering first-year associates that a number reportedly are having difficulty finding jobs at nonprofit organizations.
Now that the dust is settling on Phil Spector’s second-degree murder conviction this week, experts are pondering why a celebrity defendant whose initial trial ended in…
A district attorney in Orange County, Calif., is agreeing to dismiss some misdemeanor and drug charges against defendants if they provide a DNA sample.
Lawyers involved in the bankruptcy of Heller Ehrman were in court Monday to watch arguments in a case involving the duties of 10 former partners at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.
In the latest real-estate-related scam, burglars in upscale communities on the West Coast reportedly are stealing expensive furniture and decorator items from vacant upscale homes.
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