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…
An aggressive law enforcement probe of an Apple iPhone prototype that reportedly was forgotten by a company employee at a California bar was sparked by a complaint from an O’Melveny…
As a successful New York attorney, it was the rule, rather than the exception, for her to work both Saturday and Sunday every week, writes an attorney identified only as…
A difference of opinion about how his whistle-blower case against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. should be handled prompted a pending divorce with his trial counsel, says a former in-house…
Updated: An editor for a gadgets site that posted photographs of a lost iPhone prototype last week returned to his home in Fremont, Calif., on Friday night to find authorities…
Citing a “breakdown in the attorney-client relationship” that has made it “unreasonably difficult” to represent a former Toyota Motor Sales USA in-house counsel in a whistle-blower suit against the embattled…
In a 6-5 ruling today, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave a green light to a massive 2001 class action suit by female workers of Wal-Mart…
When an individual who apparently found an iPhone prototype left at a California bar by an Apple engineer shopped it for sale, the Gizmodo gadget site reportedly purchased it for…
When a deluge of phone calls and letters began insisting that Nancy Taylor owed nearly $2,000 on a Sears account, the San Jose, Calif., resident fought to protect her excellent…
After news late last week that the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation had decided to consolidate nearly 200 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. before a single federal…
A California judge called during a court hearing yesterday for the San Francisco district attorney to dismiss hundreds of drug cases, unless and until doubts about the evidence created by…
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