Bank Absolved In Boy's Mauling
By Daniel Evans
B of A Absolved In Boy's Mauling Although it owned the property where a construction company's guard dogs fatally mauled a you...
Crosby Gains L.A. Roots With Sanders Barnet
By Tamara Scott
After months of contemplation, Century City's Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk - nine partners and one associate - hav...
Retired Law Professor Harold Horowitz Dies
By Anne La Jeunesse
A funeral service will be held today for retired longtime University of California, Los Angeles, law professor Harold W. Horow...
Embryo Case Asks Familiar Questions
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Patricia and Edward Haynes were not the first couple to sue the University of California and its Irvine campus fer...
Lawyer, Family Move to The Hague
By Robert Selna
As an assistant U.S. attorney in the 1980s, Peter Robinson helped convict neo-Nazi gang members and savings and loan swindlers...
Clinton May Name Magistrate Jeffrey Johnson to U.S. Bench
By David Houston
Jeffrey W. Johnson, the first black federal magistrate in Los Angeles, is expected to be recommended for a district court judg...
Cooley Raises $79K More in Contributions Than DA Gil Garcetti
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles County prosecutor Steve Cooley, who is challenging his boss, District Attorney Gil Garcetti, on the November ballo...
Attorney Laments Probable End to Rampart Cops Career
By Anne La Jeunesse
The attorney for Los Angeles Police Department Officer Humberto Tovar, whose firing has been recommended by a police board of ...
RULINGS
By Ron Mc Nees
Real Property ?????????????????????? Temporary development moratorium does not deprive landowners of all value or use of prop...
Getting your astrological house in order
By Julie Nakashima
Planning to remodel the kitchen or buy a new living room set? Better consult your horoscope. Homestore.com Inc., a group of I...
Holland Snares Whitman's L.A., Tokyo Offices
By Tamara Scott
As fallout continues from a proposed merger between Chicago's 750-lawyer Winston & Strawn and Whitman Breed Abbot & Mo...
UPDATE San Gabriel Valley
By Julie Nakashima
By Julie Nakashima Compared to the industrial sector, the San Gabriel Valley office market is minuscule - a base of just 14 m...
Jesuit Order Settles Sexual Harassment Suit
By Pamela Mac Lean
Facing a deadline for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Jesuit religious order has negotiated a settlement of the sexua...
Family Law Specialist Joseph Taback Dies at 67
By Lisa Madrid
Services were held Sunday for family law specialist Joseph Taback, who lost a 16-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Taback d...
Medi-Pot Backers Join Recall Effort
By John Roemer
The recall campaign against Marin County District Attorney Paula Kamena has taken a sharp political turn since medical marijua...
And Now, Mr. deMille, Challenger Cooley Is Ready for His Close-Up
By Garry Abrams
Oops ... he did it again. During last week's debate between Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti and challenger Steve Co...
Economics Forces Judge From Bench
By Ed Kimble
Los Angeles Superior Court lost a judge Monday to the new math of legal economics that hiked starting associate salaries up to...
CONSTRUCTION LOANS
By Ron Mc Nees
WELLS FARGO BANK TRUSTEE $99,100,000 63476090 UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INVESTORS EAST PALO ALTO, CA PO BOX 512485, LOS ANGELES, CA 9...
Justice Ball Raises $750,000 for Bet Tzedek
By Tanya Rothman
Old airplanes and an aging rock star provided the backdrop for a hormone-induced hip crowd at the fourth annual Justice Ball S...
UPDATE I-680 Corridor
By John Mc Cloud
By John McCloud The primary difference between what's happening along the I-680 corridor from Danville to Concord and what's ...
LEGAL BRIEFS
By Ron Mc Nees
Real estate practice group joins Greenberg Traurig Los Angeles - Richard F. Davis, former managing partner of the internation...
Juried Out?
By Columnist
By Marvin E. Krakow. The U.S. Supreme Court just held that an employee with a discrimination claim has a right to a jury trial...
Professional Courtesy
By Columnist
By Paul D. Hesse and Alec H. Boyd. The decision in Streit suggests that attorneys should be cautious before undertaking to spe...
Low business taxes in I-680 Corridor
By Ron Mc Nees
The 2000 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey-National Online Edition shows that local taxes on the I-680 Corridor are quite...
TECHNOLOGY BRIEFS
By Ron Mc Nees
CoStar Exchange launched for commercial property sales Bethesda, Md. - In June, CoStar Group released CoStar Exchange, an onl...
It pays to shop by location
By Ron Mc Nees
Locally imposed taxes range from very low to moderately high, as indicated in the 2000 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey-...
ENVIRONMENTAL BRIEFS
By Ron Mc Nees
New initiatives address low-income populations San Francisco - The Center for Land Recycling has introduced both a new worksh...
FOCUS ON CORPORATE REAL ESTATE
By Julie Nakashima
By Julie Nakashima On the Westside of Los Angeles and other areas in California, red-hot leasing activity led by venture capi...
WHO TO BLAME
By Columnist
By Peter B. Gelblum. If a substituting lawyer or one concurrently representing a client commits malpractice, injuring the clie...
Father, Son Turn a Nice Profit on 'Wheel'
By Contributing Writer
When father-and-son attorneys Ben and Thomas Roll won $14,000 on "The Wheel of Fortune" in May, most viewers probably assumed ...