University Appoints Head of IP Office
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The University of California, Los Angeles, has appointed Andrew Neighbour director of the Office of Intellectual...
Events Highlight Need for Campaign-Finance Reform
By Columnist
This is not meant to be another apology for Bill Clinton. The sloppiness and appearance of ethical impropriety that marked his...
Graham & James: BANKRUPTCY FILING SHOWS CREDITORS OWED $6 MILLION
By Staff Writer
According to schedules filed in its Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, Graham & James, which shuttered its doors last summer, owes...
Important Papers
By Columnist
Movies set in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian countries often show police officials asking civilians for their "papers" an...
Pillsbury Winthrop: BANK ADDS 30 BRANCHES IN NEVADA AND NEW MEXICO
By Staff Writer
Bank of the West, a subsidiary of Hawaii's BancWest Corp., has acquired 30 branch offices in Nevada and New Mexico from First ...
Cooley Godward: TAX MAN IS LATEST TO JOIN GROWING CORPORATE GROUP
By Staff Writer
After tripping through a few other businesses, tax lawyer Glen Kohl has gotten back into the law firm groove. He signed up wit...
Religious Roots
By Columnist
Last week, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's...
Court Holds Noncompete Clause Unenforceable
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - In a long-awaited ruling, a state appellate court underscored the importance of getting to the courtroom first w...
Attorney Joins the Immigration Bench
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Veteran immigration attorney Christine E. Stancill has taken a seat on the U.S. immigration court in Los Angeles...
Seven Take Oath for Superior Court Bench
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Court of Appeal Justice Charles Vogel administered the oath to seven new judges of the Los Angeles Superior Cour...
Group Seeks Sanctions Against District Attorney
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Alternate Public Defender is seeking sanctions against newly elected District Attorney Steve Coo...
Heller Web Site Wins Marketing Prize
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has taken first place honors for its Web site at a legal marketing award c...
Defenders Rally Behind Lawyer Struck by Client
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Attorney Daniel W. Cohen expected trouble when a judge appointed him to represent accused rapist Johnny Stanley. S...
Jury Awards Couple $3.7 Million
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A Woodland Hills couple whose dream home turned into a money pit because the seller failed to disclose major str...
Ford Exposure Is Set at $3.5B
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay judge has agreed that Ford Motor Co. will owe California consumers $3.5 billion if found liable fo...
Upland Officer Sues for Right to Choose Lawyer in Interrogation
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - An Upland police officer is suing his employer and the city, alleging that the police department's internal...
Hotel Music Deal Strikes the Right Chord
By Victoria Newman
Guests in North America's biggest hotel chains, from Four Seasons to Marriott, will be able to select compact disc music throu...
Fast Track
By Columnist
The 9th Circuit became the first federal appellate court to rule that the right to Brady material cannot be waived through a p...
Mentoring Brings Attorney To Teen Who Needed Him
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Nearly three years ago, two people from opposite worlds joined forces. They had nothing in common, except each h...
Mentorship Program Languishes Without Cooperation of County
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Matthew Monroe of Monroe & Shapiro decided to make public his previously confidential mentor relationship wi...
Ross Negotiates Like a Beauty
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - Richard "Rick" Ross remembers his first beauty contest. It involved not babes in bathing suits but a seasoned ac...
Helping the Walls to Speak
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Appellate attorney Irving Greines sounds like the worst kind of libertine when he talks about the obsession that...
Offshore Sites Brace for Academy Awards Betting
By Contributing Writer
Between the Oscars and the NCAA basketball tournament, March has become the pre-eminent month for office pools around the coun...
Mall Stalwart Loses Its Edge
By Marisa Navarro
Decked in a baby-blue tank top, form-fitting blue jeans and lips shining with an extra coat of gloss, Sarineh Abnoosi, 17, cru...
Love Slave
By Columnist
A self-proclaimed 'smart gal with a fat bank account,' Love professes that she is 'ready to take this thing all the way to the...
Dot-Coms' Problems Mirror Car Industry's
By Toni Vranjes
As the markets continue to plummet despite the Federal Reserve's efforts this week, economists and market watchers are turning...
Will New Economy Still Grow?
By Columnist
Despite what the stock market might say, we are in the midst of a New Network Economy. So it is important to understand some o...
Gays, Lesbian Relationships Deserve Equal Legal Rights
By Columnist
For 21 years, I've been an ever-more-out lesbian. For almost 10 years, I've been engaged in legal advocacy, first on behalf of...
Gas Peddle
By Toni Vranjes
Working in a research facility in Brea more than a decade ago, Unocal scientists Peter Jessup and Michael Croudace positioned ...
See No Evil
On Feb. 21, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state governments may not be sued for employment discrimination against the disab...