Manatt Phelps Tops Paul Hastings, 69-51, for Division Championship
By Contributing Writer
Sports: By Shirley Landau The A Division Championship was a very fast-paced game. The teams of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips a...
Carvey Settles Malpractice Suit Against Heart Surgeon
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - When comedian Dana Carvey settled his multi million-dollar malpractice suit against a top Bay area heart surge...
Distributor Loses Tobacco Challenge
By Martin Bergn
A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to the $206 billion settlement between the Big Five tobacco companies and 46 s...
Keeping Chip Maker Vitesse in the Chips
By Liz Valsamis
For 10 years, Camarillo's Vitesse Semiconductor Inc. has depended on the versatile legal representation of Francis Currie, a c...
New Mexicans Hit By Fire Will Probably Sue
By Charles Ashby
Los Alamos, N.M., residents who think the federal government is going to compensate them adequately after this month's devasta...
RELIGHTING THE FLAME
By Columnist
The Closer: By Arthur Gross-Schaefer Attorney burnout is a critical problem that needs to be addressed in a proactive manner b...
X:DRIVE GETS $45 MILLION IN FINANCING FROM INVESTORS
By Melissa Onstad
Deals: Santa Monica's X:drive Inc., which specializes in Internet storage and file-access services for global corporations and...
BANK OF THE SIERRA TO BUY SIERRA NATIONAL BANK
By Melissa Onstad
Deals: Bank of the Sierra, headquartered in Porterville, has acquired Bakersfield's Sierra National Bank. The value of the dea...
XIPPIX BOOSTS CLIENT BASE THROUGH CAFEX ACQUISITION
By Liz Valsamis
Deals: Internet imaging company Xippix Inc. has acquired Cafex Corp., a Larkspur-based company that designs and develops datab...
BUTTING IN
By Columnist
Forum: By Robert A. Levy No, Congress didn't authorize a Food, Drug, and Tobacco Administration. Despite the Clinton administr...
CHICAGO FIRM HIRES THREE PARTNERS IN ITS L.A. OFFICE
By Tamara Scott
Firm Watch: Chicago-based Winston & Strawn has added three more partners to its Los Angeles office: commercial litigators ...
Getting Respect
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Corporate Councel: The entire nation's in-house bar is feeling victorious after a near-unanimous California Supreme Court ruli...
Critics Keep Carping About Rampart Panel
By Chris Ford
The drumbeat for an outside investigation and oversight of the Los Angeles Police Department continued to build last week . Me...
Lawyer Suit Alleges Age Discrimination
By Anne La Jeunesse
Running Springs attorney John R. Marcus filed a lawsuit Thursday against the San Bernardino County Superior Court, alleging th...
10 NEW ASSOCIATES GO INTO THREE CALIFORNIA BRANCHES
By Tamara Scott
Firm Watch: Crosby Heafey Roach & May announced it has recruited 10 new associates: three in San Francisco, three in Los A...
TWO CORPORATE ATTORNEYS GO TO PALO ALTO LAW FIRM
By Tamara Scott
Firm Watch: Two corporate and securities lawyers - Nora Lynne Gibson and John L. Donahue - have been nabbed by Palo Alto's Wil...
L.A. Council Delays Action on Supporting Bill That Would Outlaw Racial Profiling
By Chris Ford
Attempts at the state level to put an end to race-based policing remain caught in the swirl of local politics. Late last week,...
Tuttle Veteran Anderson Goes To Loeb & Loeb
By Tamara Scott
After spending 28 years at Los Angeles-based Tuttle & Taylor, senior tax partner C. David Anderson has defected to Los Ang...
SAN DIEGO OFFICE CONTINUES GROWTH WITH LABOR EXPERT
By Tamara Scott
Firm Watch: San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster continues to expand its presence in San Diego by recruiting Craig A. Schlo...
DA Won't Soften Protective Order on Perez Transcripts
By Michael D. Harris
The Los Angeles County alternate public defender's office said Friday that prosecutors have rejected its request to soften the...
CENTURY CITY FIRM RECRUITS NEW-MEDIA ASSOCIATE
By Katherine Gaidos
Firm Watch: Century City's Irell & Manella has recruited Eric Suddleson , former head of business and legal affairs at Los...
Firms Battle Over $1.4M in Fees
By Pamela A. Mac Lean
SACRAMENTO - The grim scandal involving 5,000 sets of cremated human remains found in a Contra Costa storage locker in 1997 ha...
ODonnell & Shaeffer's New Trademark Is the $164 Million Afternoon
By Garry Abrams
Flamboyant Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell and his firm of jugular-fixated young Turks had a huge week last week. ...
BUTTING IN
By Columnist
Forum: By Elizabeth J. Cabraser Remember that intolerably bright kid in law school - the one who delighted in perverse argumen...
N.Y. Lawyer Pays the Pipers for Mouthing Off to Supreme Court
By David Pike
U.S. Supreme Court Column: WASHINGTON - If lawyers want to know how to tick off the Supreme Court justices, they should ask Fl...
Report Criticizes Not Disciplining Prison Workers
By Pamela A. Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Troubled Pelican Bay State Prison came in for sharp criticism from a court-appointed monitor this week for its...
Beau Begets A Mumbling, Bumbling Bit
By Columnist
Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Renee Laurents The season finale deserves a curtain call. This blend of Broadway musical theater an...
Prior Acts
By Columnist
Practitioner: Criminal Law By Alex Ricciardulli Proposition 21 is a potpourri of new laws, impacting many aspects of Californi...
U.N. Peacekeeping Practices in Need of Reform
By Contributing Writer
Forum: By Dennis C. Jett After U.N. peacekeepers proved incapable of handling the chaos in Sierra Leone, Richard Holbrooke, th...
Future Shock
By Columnist
^^Feature^^ By Deborah Rosenthal According to Michael Wade, of Los Angeles' Demler, Armstrong and Wade, "the complexity of bad...