Three laid-off employees of Heller Ehrman have filed a class action suit that contends the law firm failed to follow federal and state laws requiring 60-day notification before layoffs.
Henry Reid, former chief of the cadaver program at University of California, Los Angeles, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to sell more than $1 million of donated body parts to…
Foreclosure activity in California plummeted in September, largely because of a new state law that requires lenders to contact homeowners in advance of foreclosure filings.
In at least two cases, faulty fingerprint work by the Los Angeles Police Department has apparently pointed to the wrong suspects, and charges were dropped, according to a confidential internal…
Hogan & Hartson is opening two new offices in Northern California with eight veterans from the dissolving Heller Ehrman law firm, including Heller’s former litigation practice…
Updated: Two e-mails were dispatched to Heller Ehrman employees last Friday. One informed the recipients they were being asked to continue working at the law firm, for now. The other…
A plea deal that would have saved a woman accused of stalking actor John Cusack from further jail time almost fell through, after she told a Los Angeles judge that…
Despite the savings and loan meltdown that hit the country some 20 years ago, many states at the center of that maelstrom apparently didn’t learn the obvious lesson: Regulation is…
A false claim of an affair that spurred 250 California-based prosecutors to remove themselves from a corruption case hasn’t resulted in the ouster of the final two assistant U.S. attorneys.
A veteran California prosecutor has been arrested on suspicion of rape in an alleged incident reportedly involving another Contra Costa County deputy district attorney. He has posted $1 million bail.
In the latest ruling in a steady stream of medical privacy cases, a California judge has nixed a Texas doctor’s claimed right to distribute videotapes of the 1994 breast augmentation…
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