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”…
It’s official: NBC announced today that it is canceling the long-running Law & Order legal drama, following unconfirmed reports yesterday that it intended to do so.
A now-former general counsel of World Wrestling Entertainment and a law firm paralegal reportedly have suffered job repercussions over unrelated situations concerning, respectively, a party after a WrestleMania 26 event…
A plaintiff’s lawyer sued for $4 million in damages by Chevron has scored a significant interim victory in the malicious prosecution case, winning a court ruling eliminating a large portion…
As potential layoffs loomed last year, three BigLaw associates in Southern California decided to form their own corporate and investor-side bankruptcy firm, even though they didn’t yet have a book…
A divided California appeals court has revived a malicious prosecution lawsuit against Manatt Phelps & Phillips concerning a 1998 federal trademark dilution and false advertising complaint it filed against the…
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