A California jury has ruled for Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in a $17 million malpractice suit brought by the founder of a clothing company who claimed she was misled into…
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed yesterday by the Los Angeles city attorney’s office against nine imprisoned gang leaders seeks to gain possession of their assets and redistribute the money among other…
An unknown number of child sex-abuse convictions in Santa Clara County, Calif., could be overturned after the discovery of some 3,000 videotapes of medical exams dating back to 1991 that…
Holiday sales of Bratz dolls will be allowed to continue despite a federal judge’s recall order yesterday in an infringement suit against MGA Entertainment.
The dean of the University of Southern California’s law school fears that his students are disadvantaged in the job market by a low grade curve, so he’s proposing a 0.1…
Lawyers who work on indigent appeals for the Central California Appellate Program have been warned that their Social Security numbers and personal information have been stolen.
A California appeals court has upheld sanctions nearing $44,000 against a lawyer who told her client that a company trade secret had been exposed in a public court file.
An ABC TV affiliate in Fresno, Calif., announced on Sunday that one of its top executives is quitting because of comments he made during jury selection in a carjacking case.
A growing 300-attorney law firm located largely in the Midwest is establishing a foothold on the West Coast by combining with a Los Angeles trial and intellectual property boutique.
Michael Gressett, 51, who is a 20-year prosecutor assigned to the sex crimes unit of the Contra Costa County, Calif., district attorney’s office, has been charged and arraigned in the…
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