A California plaintiffs lawyer should be suspended for three years, a State Bar Court judge recommends, because of his “outrageous” and “insolent” behavior.
A California appeals court has rejected a trial judge’s reasons for disqualifying Gibert Maines as defense counsel for Nancy Garrido in a high-profile kidnapping case.
Citing prosecutorial misconduct, a federal judge in Southern California has axed a stock options backdating case against two Broadcom Corp. executives.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney found that the government…
A California lawyer who was apparently murdered last week outside his upscale Los Angeles home had gotten a restraining order in 2005 against a litigant who made comments that he…
Amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, a federal judge in California is considering whether to acquit Broadcom’s former chief financial officer.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney to consider…
A partner at a Los Angeles law firm who was shot in the head outside his upscale home earlier this week was murdered, police now say, ruling out the possibility…
Although no weapon reportedly was recovered, authorities say they have not yet ruled out suicide in the case of a prominent Los Angeles lawyer who was shot in the head…
Updated: A Southern California lawyer died at a hospital this morning after being shot in the head last night at about 8:30 p.m. outside his upscale home, and a police…
Lawyers for former McKesson chairman Charles McCall, convicted last month of securities fraud in a corporate accounting scandal, are seeking a new trial based on an alleged clarification by the…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the University of California’s Hastings College of Law violated the Constitution when it refused to recognize the Christian Legal Society as…
The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, ruled that factual information in letters from outside counsel to corporate counsel is just as privileged as legal advice.
Since being appointed to the state-court bench in 1995, a Southern California judge has presided over numerous high-profile cases and served in a series of leading administrative roles.
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