Updated: It isn’t just struggling blue-collar workers who are battling in court with mortgage lenders in the ongoing real estate meltdown. Ed McMahon, famous among late-night television fans as Johnny…
The California Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on whether businesses can restrict career moves of their employees through noncompete agreements.
More than two dozen law professors have urged the…
Pioneering securities class-action lawyer Melvyn Weiss was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to pay kickbacks to clients.
Updated: Opposing forces are gearing up to fight a major battle over the right of same-sex couples to marry, centered on the recent decision by the California Supreme Court that…
In addition to commonplace concerns like weeds, weevils and adverse weather conditions, urban gardeners in far-flung locations including Miami, Southern California, London and Berlin face a significant additional challenge. At…
Saying that a $1.7 million damages award to a former law firm client for lost future profits was “speculative and uncertain,” a California appeals court has voided this portion of…
The job market for associates seeking jobs at new law firms is getting tougher, especially for junior associates in specialties hard-hit by the economic downturn, California legal recruiters say.
An unusually prolific alleged graffiti tagger, who is a college graduate and works in a white-collar job, faces up to 14 years in prison if he is convicted in a…
A special master has recommended a $25,000 sanction against a San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer for mishandling a fee request in litigation against FedEx.
Special Master Edward Swanson said lawyer Waukeen…
A beer brewer in a small California town named after a founding citizen and state senator, Abner Weed, has incurred the wrath of federal regulators by his tongue-in-cheek use of…
California lawmakers took a step in the right direction when they prohibited drivers from talking on handheld cell phones under a new law that takes effect July 1.
George Mason University law professor Ronald Rotunda is joining Chapman law school along with his wife, Kyndra, an expert on military personnel and disability law.
The general counsel of a California-based genetic products manufacturer is leaving, along with three in-house Affymetrix patent lawyers, to join Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Government filings in the Northern District of California indicate that four child pornography suspects, including a lawyer, committed suicide during a nine-month period, the Recorder reports.
Authorities say more than 400 struggling California homeowners, many of them Spanish-speaking, were tricked into paying up to $10,000 for worthless “land grants” and other bogus measures claimed to provide…
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