In an unusual recruiting effort, a small San Diego law firm apparently isn’t seeking hardworking associates who never leave the office until night has fallen and they’ve met their billable-hours…
A six-year legal battle over a California couple’s beloved redwoods has ended in defeat for them and victory for a next-door neighbor who says the too-shady trees interfered with the…
Lawyers for Britney Spears persuaded a California judge today to postpone a misdemeanor traffic case against the troubled pop star, saying that she isn’t able to participate fully in her…
The top assistant to San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre said yesterday that a California bar investigation of his boss might be politically motivated.
A San Francisco attorney is facing potential disbarment because while serving on a jury in 2004, he reportedly cast the deciding vote to end a deadlock simply so that he…
In a recent discussion of leading plaintiffs firms filing class actions related to the subprime mortgage crisis, what Wall Street Journal Law Blog described as “San Diego-based…
A five-day jail sentence has been given to an aspiring journalist with a bad driving record who was at the wheel when author David Halberstam died last year in a…
A well-known Chicago-based firm is establishing a West Coast presence, raiding two San Diego law offices to open a six-attorney outpost there. (It will also be staffed from the outset…
Physicians are protesting what they say is a new and unprecedented plan by Blue Cross of California to require doctors to collect and report to health insurers patient information that…
The leading donor to UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute has reportedly pledged another $2 million to its endowment. The groundbreaking think tank focuses its research on sexual orientation law…
A judge has refused to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw by two brothers questioned in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Once upon a time, legislatures throughout the country enacted unclaimed property laws intended to make sure that banks and other companies holding assets that the owners seemed to have forgotten…
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