Rajiv Goel, a former Intel Capital director who was arrested in San Jose, California, last October, pleaded guilty on Monday to fraud in the Galleon insider trading case. He told a New York court that hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam...

After the 341(a) hearing that a debtor must attend following a San Diego bankruptcy under either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13, there exists a requirement that the debtor attend a financial management course. This is the second of the two courses mandated by the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protecti ...

Most lawyers that are versed in the H1B visa process, are getting busier and busier these days. As we are nearing the April 1, 2010 filing deadline for the H1B visa. Many speculations out there as to when will the Cap be reached this year. The economy is still in recovery mode, and employers are car ...

If you live in San Jose and have ever taken a ride in an elevator, shopped at a department store, or possibly been placed on hold, you no doubt have had the dubious honor of being privy to the sounds of background music programming. Now, what San Jose residents may not know is that some entity prog ...

I.          Introduction Back in January the Ninth Circuit decided United States Life Ins. Co. v. Superior National Ins. Co., ___ F.3d ___, slip op. (9th Cir. Jan. 4, 2010), a Federal Arbitration Act Section 10(a)(3) procedural misconduct decision that affords reinsurance and other arbitrators a goo ...

Adalberto Jose Jordan (1961-) is a U.S. District Judge in in the Southern District of Florida. Born in Havana, Cuba, Jordan came with his family to Miami, Florida in 1968. He received a B.A. and J.D. from the University of...

To assist class action defense attorneys anticipate the types of lawsuits against which they will have to defend in California courts, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San ...

To assist class action defense attorneys anticipate the types of lawsuits against which they will have to defend in California courts, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San ...

Aid for money markets, bond dealers and foreign central banks was cut off this week as the Federal Reserve shuts down emergency liquidity programs put in place to stave off the credit crisis resulting from the 2007 US mortgage collapse. According to data released this week by the Federal Reserve, a ...

The Wall Street Journal reports a major dip to below 1000 for the Dow Jones Industrial Average before rising ever so slightly above that 1000-marker, where it settled. The culprit? Why, the global economy, of course. The Dow’s 268.7 point fall is the worst since April of 2009 in addition to a marked ...