Morgan Lewis Could Face Suit From Former Brobeck Staffers
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius may be hit by a lawsuit by former Brobeck Phleger & Harrison employees who cla...
OK, Runaway Legal Disputes Threaten Viability of L.A. Media Circus
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Here in Los Angeles, lots of people worry and blather tiresomely about so-called "runaway" Hollywood ...
Court to Hear Catalyst Theory
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide whether attorneys can be awarded fees if...
Compromise Yields Results at PTO
By Xenia Kobylarz
Reporter's Notebook - By Xenia P. Kobylarz - James Rogan has been drawing mixed reviews following his first year as head of th...
Ousted Judge Loses His Appeal
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt, who was removed from the bench last August for fixing tick...
Cell Terror
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration and the Ashcroft Justice Department have e...
Only Material Misrepresentation Justifies Rescission
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In the face of reports of widespread accounting irregularities, "off balanc...
Counties Prevail in Water Pipe Suit
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - An appeals court has upheld a $6.6 million jury verdict against two big chemical manufacturers for damages ca...
Group Honors Easy Company Judge
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Former Army paratrooper Lynn "Buck" Compton downplays "the plaudits and stuff" that he and fellow members of Eas...
Wanted: LAPD Overseer to Fill Lonely Position
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES -It's February 2003 ... Do you know where your LAPD inspector general is? Jeffrey C. Eglash announced Oct. 24 that...
Oppenheimer Loses Leader In IP Practice
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, a 250-lawyer Minneapolis-based firm, took another hit to its California ope...
Statutory Tools Help Municipalities Redevelop Troublesome Brownfields
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Gideon Kracov - Redevelopment of contaminated properties raises the threat of environmen...
Black Robes
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Thelton Henderson recalls being a little taken aback at his introduction to Cecil Poole, the first blac...
Homeless Advocates Sue to Take Back Skid Row
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Homeless advocates have fired back in the war over the gentrification of downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, where c...
Censorship Of Graduation Speech Found Constitutional
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - School districts may censor graduation speeches, not just to exclude prayers but also to excise any religious...
Case Against Disability Insurer Could be Expanded
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's largest disability insurance company, socked with a $1.5 million verdict for giving the run-arou...
Attorney Can Pursue Suit Against Counsel
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A Century City attorney convicted of trying to blackmail Erin Brockovich can continue with his fraud and breach...
Analyst's Office Faults Davis Budget Plan
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A plan to cuts costs by allowing courts to take competitive bids on security doesn't go far enough, the state Le...
Jury Clears Police in Shooting Death
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A federal jury decided Tuesday that police actions were justified in the 1999 shooting death of Demetrius DuBose,...
County Ban On Gun Show Is Upheld by Circuit Panel
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush White House, the gun lobby, Ivy League scholars and federal judges in New Orleans may think the Seco...
Jewel in Brobeck's Crown Goes to Fenwick
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West has grabbed a prize asset of the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison - the account to h...
Rampart Scandal's Last Chapter Ends
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The last officer accused in the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart scandal pleaded guilty to three felonie...
Privacy Bill Clears a Senate Panel
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - This year's major financial privacy bill cleared its first hurdle Tuesday but is likely to face tougher challeng...
Jurist Served as Presiding Judge Six Times
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place March 1 for retired Santa Monica Municipal Court Judge Joseph W. Chandler, who served ...
Complying With INS Program May Be Risky for Targeted Men
By Columnist
Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - On Sept. 11, 2002, the Immigration and Naturalization Service began impl...
New Online Threats in Varian Case
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - A Colorado engineer appeared in court Tuesday on charges that he made criminal threats against two former Varian A...
S-h-h-h-h!
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gary L. Bostwick - We start with some fundamental propositions. No one who loves order and humanity wants to...
He's Got the Best of Both Worlds
By Donna Domino
SANTA ROSA - For Dennis Beaman, the final straw in his career as a lawyer came when a hard-hearted client wanted to foreclose...
Sheppard Opens First Shop Outside California
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has opened an office in Washington, D.C., its first outside...
Jurist Embraces Mission Of Compton Drug Court
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - It took her several career changes - from a Ma Bell company employee and ring girl for one of Muhammad Ali's fi...