Early in his career, San Diego County Judge Robert C. Longstreth worked on a case involving the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam...
Underscoring the state's dysfunctional death penalty system, the California Supreme Court on Monday said death row inmates sho...
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Trilliant, Inc.Redwood City ...
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas fired the senior prosecutor he previously endorsed as his heir apparent. ...
A federal jury deadlocked Friday without reaching verdicts about a former congressional candidate suspected of sending letters...
The California Redevelopment Association has appealed a judge's decision allowing the state to take $2 billion from redevelopm...
For the second time in four months, the appellate division of the Orange County Superior Court has taken the rare step of publ...
A federal judge has responded to a motion for his recusal by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in a malpractice case brought again...
Taiwanese company Princo Corp. and its Menlo Park-based attorneys at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe lost a bid Monday to k...
The fates of several proposed class actions remain in limbo as a war wages on between plaintiffs' firms formerly working as co...
Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $55 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations the technology giant defrauded ...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. appears to have made short work of a class action involving antitrust claims in which it was a co-defenda...
When Intel Corp. announced its plans to acquire Infineon Technologies' chip business for $1.4 billion, it furthered its push i...
It feels as if every day brings news of another corporate scandal or special committee investigation. How can you measure a bo...
Corporate
When is a Proposition 65 Safe Harbor Warning Actually 'Safe?'
By Carla Pinedan
A recent lawsuit against various fast food restaurants argues that "thoroughly cooked" chicken causes cancer. Should consumers...
There's no sign what changes our tax policy will undergo for 2011. Start crunching numbers and meeting with your tax advisor n...
Corporate
Dodd-Frank and the 2011 Proxy Season: SEC Adopts Final Proxy Access Rules
By Carla Pinedan
August 31, 2010 New rules offer corporate governance activists important leverage in seeking reform agenda, and an inexpensiv...
U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer of Los Angeles was wrong to reject a defendant's request to delay his tax evasion trial fo...
A $150 million settlement agreement between The Flintkote Co. and Aviva Insurance Co. of Canada was finalized Aug. 27, puttin...
Paul Kiesel, a Beverly Hills plaintiff's attorney, is one of many lawyers who have embraced Apple Inc.'s high-tech tablet sinc...
A federal judge is weighing whether to green-light a human rights lawsuit with sensitive geo-political implications that seeks...
Twenty-five years as a prosecutor and judge in Beverly Hills has given Elden Fox a good sense for how to navigate this rarefie...
In the 1920s, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was tried three times for the death of actress Virginia Rappe, setting the stage for soc...
The latest transactions by California attorneys.
While the Port of Los Angeles is celebrating a court decision finding its landmark program to cut big rig pollution to be lega...
General Counsel for Goldin Factoring Inc.Fremont ...
An attempt by Libertarian Richard Rider, chairman of San Diego Tax Fighters, to keep a proposed one-half cent sales tax off th...
A Bay Area civil rights group has sued the Central Valley community of Tulare and its elections chief, alleging that the city'...
A dramatic increase in drug recalls has prompted investigations and new legislation to strengthen regulators' abilities to mon...
Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading "The Components of Alternative Dispute Resolution" by Helen I. Bendix and Alexander M....