New Justice Department guidelines say federal prosecution of medical marijuana clinics or their patients will not be a priority, as long as state laws are being followed.
A California lawyer and two of his business associates have been arrested in a scheme to obtain fraudulent visas and launder the money in burial plots.
California signed into a law this week legislation that will make it easier for officials to protect witnesses from gangs able to access witness information on the Web.
A California divorce court may have to decide who owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, following a separation announcement yesterday by the baseball team’s husband-and-wife co-owners, Frank and Jamie McCourt.
Former Milberg partner William Lerach, imprisoned after pleading guilty to paying kickbacks to lead plaintiffs in class actions, has been moved to a halfway house.
Creditors of Heller Ehrman may sue its accountant for allegedly failing to note red flags in its audit report on the law firm’s 2007 financials, according to a bankruptcy liquidation…
Carly Simon has been wronged once again, according to a lawsuit she has filed against Starbucks alleging the coffee company’s record label mismanaged her latest album.
San Francisco criminal defense lawyer Eric Safire says he had a reason for asking eight men to stand on Tuesday when a witness was asked to identify the person who…
As cybercrime has exploded in recent years and even traditional crimes ranging from harassment to murder routinely involve Internet-related communication, authorities in many jurisdictions increasingly are struggling to keep up…
A legal recruiter has sued Los Angeles-based Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith for $100 million in actual and punitive damages, contending that the 700-attorney…
Over the past four years, a television show about Jon and Kate Gosselin’s family life with their eight children–now 8-year-old twins and 5-year-old sextuplets–have made them a household name.
A California lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he lost more than $2 million in settlement money after investing it in bad stock market trades.
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