Dan Chammas of Venable says that while workplace violence is unpredictable, there are ways to take proactive measures. ...
Heller Ehrman's creditors and 65 former shareholders reached a tentative settlement during confidential mediation discussions....
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Broadcom Judge May Be Dismiss Case Before Arguments
By Gabe Friedmann
Closing arguments in the criminal trial of Broadcom's former chief financial officer are set to begin next week — unless the j...
Cheers turned to dismay for supporters of defendant Alex Sanchez, a nationally renowned anti-gang activist charged with racket...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Comcast Corp., which recently announced it was acquiring a majority stake in NBC Universal, is probably hoping that its latest...
The Daily Journal recently published a three-part series tracing the steps of Adam Siegler of the Siegler Law Group, a Beverly...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Employers Win Meal Time Ruling
By John Roemer
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision that a security guard who agreed to take two meals whi...
Del Mar-based Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire La Jolla Pharmaceutical C...
As many as 12,000 members of Native American tribes in California could collect $1,000 as part of the U.S. government's $1.4 b...
Congressional negotiators approved a spending bill late Tuesday that boosts the budget for Legal Services Corp. by $30 million...
Alameda County Superior Court followed the proper procedures regarding the majority of 13 litigants who were laid off by the c...
The decision came hours after oral argument in which the court expressed skepticism of some of the trial judge's decisions tha...
Adam Siegler of the Siegler Law Group completes his series on what life was like as an attorney deployed to Baghdad, Iraq. ...
Adam Siegler of the Siegler Law Group continues his chronicle of journeying to Baghdad, Iraq as a member of the 11th Military ...
The Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled that the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board's firing of an administrative law...
The California Supreme Court heard arguments about how much sick leave workers can take to care for their loved ones. ...
Adam Siegler of the Siegler Law Group shares his journey as an attorney from Beverly Hills to Baghdad, Iraq. ...
Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School compares the media's treatment of two instances of land-use regulation and the First Amendm...
Deborah Stein of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett examines the financial consequences of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. ...
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris takes a look at the crime problem from different perspectives in her new book...
Joshua Traver of Cole Pedroza says CA Civil Jury Instruction No. 430 fails to accurately state the application of two differen...
D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenza says public policy issues have furthered court restriction on use of non-solicitation agree...
The federal appeals court said defense lawyers failed to marshal mitigating evidence in the penalty phase of a Van Nuys man 19...
Two years after Homeland Security officials agreed to first obtain a court order before forcibly drugging immigrants who are f...
Securities
Judge May Dismiss Broadcom Case; Sets Aside Samueli Plea
By Christian Berthelsenn
A federal judge on Wednesday set aside Orange County billionaire Henry Samueli's guilty plea in the Broadcom stock option back...
After handling civil trials for close to a decade, Neil Cabrinha next year becomes a family law judge.
Somaxon Pharmaceuticals Inc. has again been sent back to the drawing board by the Food and Drug Administration over its drug, ...
Coffee wholesaler Diedrich Coffee Inc. Tuesday said it would be acquired by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. and not by Pee...