A Los Angeles judge considering fraud allegations in a lawsuit by Nicaraguan banana workers says she has been threatened, and so have witnesses in the case.
A California mom successfully used Facebook to search for the two children she hadn’t seen in nearly 15 years, after their father allegedly took them and told her she would…
Reversing a lower court ruling that a screenwriter’s critical comments on Craigslist about a California lawyer were protected by the First Amendment, a state appeals court last week reinstated attorney…
A leading Chinese law firm has opened a Silicon Valley office staffed by the former managing partners of the Perkins Coie law offices in Beijing and Shanghai.
Perkins Coie has opened a new office in San Diego with four lawyers, in the first step of a planned expansion of both its California presence and its intellectual property…
A San Francisco lawyer has been fined $1,500 for producing and distributing a DVD containing deposition testimony a judge had ordered sealed in a highly charged racial discrimination suit against…
People on a sports fishing boat four miles off of Long Beach in California found the body of an Irell & Manella partner on Wednesday who had gone missing after…
Updated: The state department of justice is among the defendants in a lawsuit alleging that California agencies are discriminating against deaf workers by not providing them with required sign-language interpreters.
A California judge blasted the San Francisco District Attorney’s office in an opinion today, saying that high-level officials there had repeatedly failed to provide defendants with constitutionally required exculpatory information…
California lawyer Mohamed Salem says he doesn’t know why an alleged scammer chose his name and bar number to mislead homeowners trying to avoid foreclosure.
A federal judge in San Francisco has quashed a subpoena seeking to force Yahoo to provide the Web address for an anonymous online critic of USA Technologies, saying that “Stokklerk”…
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