Judge Sentences Madam for Failing to Pay Taxes
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Jody "Babydol" Gibson, the fledgling pop singer who is in state prison for running a high-class call-girl servic...
Fair Way?
Recently, the worlds of professional sports and civil rights law collided in the case of PGA Tour v. Martin. Because th...
Star of Many Fields
By Leonard Novarro
Alan I. Rothenberg has spent the last 37 years accomplishing a lot as both an attorney and a businessman. He presided over the...
'Cottle' Lives!
By Columnist
The right to a jury is a valued right -- but at the same time, considerations of judicial resources, of the parties' expense a...
Kennedy Will Seek Fourth and Final Term as DA
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Quashing speculation about his political future, Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy says he will r...
3 Figures in Scorpion Case Plead Guilty
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The three key players in the Scorpion Technologies securities fraud case have agreed to plead guilty to a cons...
Lawyer's Criminal Charges Dropped
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a dramatic turn of events, a trial judge on Monday dismissed the criminal charges supporting the state Supreme...
S.F. Memorial Slated for Mosk
By Staff Reports
SAN FRANCISCO - A public memorial observance will be held in San Francisco for Justice Stanley Mosk, who died June 19 at age 8...
Catholic Charities Must Offer Birth Control
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - In a closely watched case that pits gender equality against religious freedom, a state appellate court held Monda...
Baker & McKenzie Loses 19th Lawyer as Partner Leaves
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The beleaguered local office of Baker & McKenzie has lost another top partner with at least four others ex...
Phony Film Reviews Anger Viewers
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Suspension of disbelief, while a necessity for most Hollywood films, should not apply to Hollywood advertising, ...
Malpractice Suit Must Come After Reversal
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A malpractice action against a criminal defense attorney cannot prevail unless the defendant's conviction is r...
City Longs to Ascend Beyond the Buzzards, Fly Into Fascinating Future
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - New Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn flew into office on Monday on the wings of metaphors about birds, bumblebees...
Sexually Exploited Foster Child Wins Settlement
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - A $100,000 settlement for a foster child who was raped, sexually exploited, beaten and emotionally abused as an ...
Controversial Family-Division Assignment Challenges Judge
By Contributing Writer
Fair Way?
By Columnist
There are lines in the moral and political world that law ignores at its peril. Cases illustrating that point, everywhere toda...
Court Officials Plan Meeting After Second Suicide
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and Superior Court officials will discuss how to prevent further suicides today after a fatal...
REGIONAL FOCUS
By Don Parret
By S HEILA M UTO Dow Jones Newswires During its 20 years in business, Triton Container International Inc. has made San Franci...
Murchison & Cumming: MEDIATOR BECOMES FIRST LATERAL PARTNER AT SHOP
By Karen Coleman
The Los Angeles litigators at Murchison & Cumming brought William DelHagen into the partnership last Monday. DelHagen, a L...
Lewis D'Amato: KNAPP MARSH SPLIT BRINGS SEVEN LAWYERS INTO RANKS
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard is adding seven lawyers, all from that city's Knapp Marsh Jones & Doran...
Filling New Neighborhoods on the Net
By Marisa Navarro
When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers issued seven new general top-level domain names in November, it t...
MY STORY, BY LEE KANON ALPERT
By Don Parret
I believe the real estate industry needs to abandon the practice of dual representation, which presents serious legal and eth...
Words of Wisdom
By Katherine Gaidos
Summer associates are well-schooled in the obvious "don'ts" for their first season at a law firm: Put that whiskey flask away ...
Asylum Case Gives Attorneys Life-and-Death Issue
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a break from corporate litigation, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison attorneys Tim Meltzer and Michael Ad...
REITS
By Ron Mc Nees
CREJ Staff Report Last week, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2001-29, formally acknowledging that corporations may spin off the...
Latham & Watkins: IRVINE'S INTERPORE WILL BUY VIRGINIA MEDICAL COMPANY
By Victoria Newman
Irvine's Interpore International Inc. has agreed to acquire Leesburg, Va.'s American OsteoMedix Corp. The cash-and-stock deal ...
O'Melveny & Myers: FILM STARTUPS' MERGER AND FINANCING CLOSE TOGETHER
By Victoria Newman
Hypnotic Inc. and Nibblebox Inc., two startups that use the Internet to produce and distribute independent films, have merged....
Shearman & Sterling: A THIRD MANAGING PARTNER WILL JOIN BAY AREA OFFICES
By Karen Coleman
John Wilson took over for Peter Lyons as the head of Shearman & Sterling 's San Francisco and Menlo Park offices Sunday. L...
Wilson Sonsini: MENLO PARK'S INTERWAVE COMPLETES WIRELESS BUY
By Victoria Newman
Menlo Park's interWAVE Communications International Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Wireless Inc., a purchase it announc...
World of Difference
By Staff Writer
The way the legal system works in the United States is so different from everything that can possibly happen in legal life in ...