A California State Bar judge has recommended a suspension for an assistant district attorney in Santa Clara County for four years based on findings he withheld evidence and committed other…
Perkins Coie has sued a former associate in its Menlo Park, Calif., office. The law firm contends that he reneged on a written agreement to repay up to $30,000 that…
In the course of another investigation, the Orange County, Calif., district attorney’s office focused on a different issue at an Upland lawyer’s satellite office in Westminster.
A significant discovery of fossilized mammoth bones—including the first skull ever found in San Diego County—will delay the construction of the new downtown San Diego building of Thomas Jefferson School…
A verdict for Chevron in a suit brought on behalf of Nigerian protest victims has been named the top California defense verdict of 2008 by a West Coast legal publication.
An insurance company that had refused to pay out on a $10 million life policy after actor Heath Ledger’s death from a drug overdose, contending that it might have been…
A bankruptcy judge has refused a request by Heller Ehrman to buy “tail” malpractice coverage to cover claims against the firm after its insurance expires April 15.
A U.S. attorney is applying a criminal statute in a novel way as part of a grand jury investigation into the Los Angeles archdiocese and its response to pedophile priests,…
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