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Historically, Internal Revenue Service examiners were assigned to audit taxpayers in many different industries. On one day, an...

Although breaking up can be heart-wrenching, it can also be liberating and even quite lucrative - if you're a corporation. Spi...

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It is essential for practitioners who draft license agreements that involve intellectual property to be familiar with Section ...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote 66 years ago: "It is impossible in the nature of things for ...

SANTA ANA - Chocolate might be hard to resist, but Deborah Hardaway says she found it hard, period. The 43-year-old Newport Co...

LOS ANGELES - Seventy-one members of a bicycle protest group who were arrested and strip-searched during the Democratic Nation...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County school district has sued one of its special-needs students, alleging it should not have to pay fo...

LOS ANGELES - Private citizens stepping forward to help foster children "find their voice" is the goal of a county mentorship ...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Emmick, who as former deputy to Kenneth W. Starr was the first federal prosecutor to question Monica Lew...

SAN FRANCISCO - Electric power wholesalers have conspired to create artificial shortages in the vast California market, illega...

SAN FRANCISCO - Not everybody, Felicia Marcus recently noted proudly, owns a Federal Highway Administration snow globe. But sh...

WASHINGTON - Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White testified Thursday that attorney general-designate John Ashcroft had di...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 22 years as San Francisco's Public Defender, Jeff Brown was appointed Thursday by Gov. Gray Davis to fil...

LOS ANGELES - As light bulbs in Northern California flicker, dim and blink off, enveloping millions of energy consumers in sta...

SAN DIEGO - State prosecutors are investigating how the forged signature of the county's presiding judge is showing up on pape...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury handed $450,000 Wednesday to two former hospital chaplains who were forbidden by their e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ted Russell, a prominent local litigator and partner with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, suffered a ...

It's two in the morning and I'm startled from an already restless sleep. It's the sleep of a lawyer in the midst of trial: fit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles case testing the privacy of police personnel files against a defendant's right to a fair trial w...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley, a San Jose state appellate court has thrown out a trade-secret-theft ...

In Christy Bros. Circus v. Turnage, 144 S.E. 680 (1928), Judge Alexander W. Stephens held the following for the court, in pert...

Every day, companies purchase insurance to pay defense costs should they become embroiled in litigation, and most companies as...

In the verbally scrambled world of newly anointed President George Dubya Bush, the aphorism that no good deed goes unpunished ...

Despite the apparent breadth of the language of total pollution exclusions, their scope is not as broad as many insurers argue...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside lawyer has been convicted of assisting in a conservatorship fraud that robbed elderly and ill people o...

SANTA ANA - The family of a Los Angeles man shot and killed in Orange County while trying to escape police has sued the Los An...

SANTA ANA - Fourth District Court of Appeal Justice Thomas F. Crosby, an 18 1/2-year veteran of the appellate bench who is kno...