The bank settles a suit with shareholders of a defunct medical financing company which turned out to be an elaborate Ponzi sch...
A Los Angeles appellate panel on Tuesday held that it was error for a trial judge to admit evidence of the full amounts billed...
Immigration
Bills would aid workers for whom immigration status is used as blackmail
By Paul Jones
Two bills aimed at protecting immigrants in light of workplace abuses were unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Commit...
A request by San Diego and Ventura County superior courts for the Administrative Office of the Courts to modify their electron...
The defense team for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon two weeks ago, landed a renowned death penalt...
Discipline
Report: State Bar's handling of discipline sped in 2012
By Don J. De Benedictis
The State Bar has slashed the time it spends to move discipline cases through the system almost in half since 2010, according ...
When it was created in 1983, the founders had plans to make the firm into the nation's leading corporate restructuring boutiqu...
Criminal
Early decision not to seek death penalty slashes defense costs
By Hadley Robinson
The decision by U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the Northern District not to seek the death penalty against two of four men alle...
California Courts of Appeal
Appellate court circumscribes release of three-strikes inmates
By John Roemer
Setting standards for the release of allegedly dangerous three-strikes inmates under the newly enacted Proposition 36 reforms,...
Federal Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton says even in her family people come to her to solve problems.
Privacy advocates and libertarians hope online currency will allow them to hide their actions and create an uninhibited market...
Between criminal cases, Judge Shelyna Brown strives to be a role model and mentor for youth.
Last week, the case Franco-Gonzalez v. Holder established the right of immigrant detainees with mental disabilities to ...
Some criticize the practice, contending that offsets are not disclosed to participants, that offsets are unfair, and that empl...
Twelve California public school teachers and the Ohio-based Christian Teacher's Association sued the National Education Associ...
Labor/Employment
Tour company not exempt from paying minimum wage, judge rules
By Laura Hautalan
After two tour leaders filed a putative class action claiming they were not paid minimum wage, Adventures Rolling Cross Countr...
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges Monday against the city of Victorville, an investment banking firm and ot...
A San Diego attorney who has represented some of country's the most notorious criminals will join the public defenders in Bost...
Litigation
San Francisco lawyer to represent man claiming to own much of Facebook
By Saul Sugarman
San Francisco plaintiffs' attorney Joseph M. Alioto has joined an ever-changing roster of attorneys bringing a case on behalf ...
Intellectual Property
Judge reinstates some of Apple's jury award against Samsung
By Kevin Lee
A San Jose federal judge has reinstated about $40 million of the original jury verdict awarded to Apple in its patent and trad...
Latham & Watkins LLP represented Mountain View-based Conceptus Inc. in its $1.1 billion sale to a subsidiary of global hea...
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC announced Monday that Jonathan A. Shapiro joined the firm's San Francisco off...
A death penalty bill in the state Senate is facing criticisms for a controversial provision that activists say would make Cali...
The Pacific Legal Foundation on Monday sued the city of Solana Beach, arguing it is violating state law and the U.S. Constitut...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Judge wrong to tell jurors not to speculate why a witness didn't testify, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
Trial judges shouldn't rule legitimate inferences that could help the defense off limits for jurors, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...
A federal judge sentenced an AU Optronics Corp. executive to two years in prison and a $50,000 fine Monday for his role in a c...
A Northern District bankruptcy judge approved the Howrey LLP estate's $7.6 million settlement with mutual malpractice insuranc...
Judges and Judiciary
Reassignments rare on reversal, considered a stinging rebuke by judges
By John Roemer
Federal trial judges get reversed on appeal all the time. It's no big deal. But when appellate panels really want to rub it in...
After a string of wild consumer product successes over the past decade, Apple Inc. is preparing for its first debt offering wi...
Justice Judith L. Haller enjoys digging into historical issues and complicated legal disputes.