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Kelly Hansen keeps his cool as he handles a packed docket, lawyers say.
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Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President, Secretary and Managing Director of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment S...
DLA Piper associate Deborah J. Saltzman was sworn in last Thursday as the Central District of California's newest bankruptcy j...
Covington & Burling increased salaries last week for associates in its three California offices but not for those in its W...
The Senate confirmed California lawyer Sharon L. Browne to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation. ...
Lawyers defending former Brocade chief executive Gregory L. Reyes on options backdating charges argued a prosecution witness m...
A San Francisco judge threw out a proposed class action that alleged FIJI Water Co. falsely marketed its bottled water as bein...
A group of creditors with more than $11 million in judgments and claims against David Bergstein's companies filed petitions to...
Not even California's budget crisis justifies furloughs for state lawyers, administrative law judges and hearing officers, a s...
What does it mean when an attorney signs an agreement "approved as to form and content?" Tim Reuben of Reuben Raucher & Bl...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a double-barreled critique of the civil litigation system, pairing the release of its an...
Dan Lawton of Thomas Jefferson School of Law writes about the cloak of blamelessness surrounding the Catholic Church's abuse s...
Robert Steinberg of ADR Services delves into the purpose and ramifications of a bill seeking to eliminate longstanding capital...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has been disqualified from representing Seyfarth Shaw in a legal malpractice lawsuit launched by m...
To Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff, the key to a case is finding how the pieces fit together.
A U.S. dismissed defense arguments the economic downturn is to blame for losses experienced by investors who purchased $67.5 b...
Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...
Gloria White-Brown did a little bit of everything in the law before becoming a judge
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After San Francisco Superior Court's success with electronic filing for asbestos cases over the past 11 years, a group of the ...
Several creditors with more than $6.7 million in judgments against ThinkFilm, an independent film distributor, have filed a pe...
The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved the nomination of Orange County Superior Court Judge Josephine S. Tucker to b...
The Senate voted by unanimous consent late Wednesday to pass legislation closing the sentencing disparity between crack and po...
John Van de Kamp, a former State Bar president, state attorney general, district attorney, federal public defender and U.S. at...
A coalition of publicly-owned utilities and local governments from San Francisco to Modesto filed suit Thursday to block a Pac...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit: No Immunity for Ashcroft
By John Roemer
Former Attorney General John D. Ashcroft is not shielded by prosecutorial immunity from a lawsuit by a former terror suspect, ...
Attorneys defending former KB Home top executive Bruce Karatz from allegations of stock options backdating dug into the prosec...