The former founder of one of the West Coast’s biggest immigration law firms was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for filing fraudulent visa applications.
The word “recovery” in an engagement contract between a Texas law firm and the Arizona firm it retained to help pursue an environmental class action meant gross, rather than net…
A federal judge is allowing six Qualcomm lawyers sanctioned for discovery violations in patent litigation to testify about privileged client communications.
After some $10 million in court-ordered penalties, attorney sanctions and a switch of both in-house and outside counsel, it is clear that Qualcomm Inc. didn’t handle its discovery obligations in…
An undisclosed settlement between Starbucks Corp. and 350 assistant managers who claim they were required to work unpaid overtime was approved yesterday by a federal judge in Houston.
As a so-called private investigator to the stars is about to go to trial tomorrow for allegedly using illegal tactics to gain evidence for his clients, Hollywood is reportedly agog…
Updated: Visibly frustrated by the way that Internet technology has outpaced traditional law, a federal judge today nonetheless acceded to First Amendment arguments and said Wikileaks could have its Web…
Federal prosecutors claim in court documents that several plaintiffs class action law firms secretly paid an expert witness on a contingency basis, giving him an incentive to inflate shareholders’ damages.
Former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts’ quest for notes of a law firm’s corporate backdating probe appeared to run into a roadblock Monday in the form…
In a recent discussion of leading plaintiffs firms filing class actions related to the subprime mortgage crisis, what Wall Street Journal Law Blog described as “San Diego-based…
Services will be held tomorrow in San Francisco for a longtime federal judge and former dean of Duke University School of Law who served for more than 20 years as…
A federal appeals judge has denied a motion that seeks his recusal in an excessive-force case on the ground that he cannot be fair because of his involvement in developing…
The day after a federal judge gave William Lerach the maximum two-year prison sentence possible under a plea deal, a front-page Wall Street Journal profile reports that the once-mighty plaintiffs…
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