More Convictions To Be Reversed
By Michael Harris
In what will bring to 77 the number of felony cases that will have been thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corrupti...
Lady Liberty Is Far Too Graphic for The Capital of Porn Movie-Making
By Garry Abrams
On Monday - the same day that the conservative and mostly geriatric U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress had violated free s...
Rights Lawyers Said Not Welcome on Panel
By Chris Ford
The general counsel of a panel investigating corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department recently told a group of civic le...
Council Members Blast Police Board
By Chris Ford
Several members of the Los Angeles City Council on Monday blasted the Board of Police Commissioners for overloading its police...
Defender Tries To Strike Deal For Transcripts
By Michael Harris
Saying it has never encountered a protective order as restrictive as the one imposed on the Rafael Perez transcripts, the alte...
Court: Credible Kids' Hearsay Can Be Offered
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case with big consequences for dependency hearings involving very young children, the California Supreme ...
DEALS: REMANAGE.COM AND AXEO FINALIZE MERGER
By Liz Valsamis
Remanage.com and AXEO Corp. have completed their merger. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. The combined company ...
DEALS: BIOPOOL INTERNATIONAL AND XTRANA TO MERGE
By Liz Valsamis
Biopool International Inc. and Xtrana have entered into an agreement to merge. ...
DAZED AND CONFUSED
By Columnist
The Adviser: Intellectual Property Law By Sue J. Hodges Companies with significant value in their intellectual-property asset...
Brobeck Veteran Will Stop at Nothing
By Melissa Onstad
One philosophy in life is to quit while you're ahead. That's not the approach taken by Brobeck Phleger & Harrison partner ...
Back to the Basics
By Columnist
First Principles By By John C. Eastman Last week the Supreme Court invalidated, by the narrowest of margins, a portion of the ...
Mo Manager
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Update: When Keith Wetmore When Keith Wetmore first took on the task of managing the San Francisco office of Morrison & Fo...
DEALS: NELVANA ACQUIRING KLUTZ PUBLISHER
By Liz Valsamis
Nelvana Ltd., the Toronto-based children's entertainment company, has agreed to acquire children's publisher Klutz. The transa...
Songnappers
By Columnist
Practitioner: Entertainment Law By John M. Genga Copyright interests continue to prevail in lawsuits challenging uncompensated...
DEALS: MERGER DOUBLES SIZE OF PEREGRINE SYSTEMS
By Melissa Onstad
San Diego's Peregrine Systems Inc., a business infrastructure software provider, has acquired Atlanta-based Harbinger Corp., w...
NEWS: JAMS ADDS EIGHT MEDIATORS TO OFFICES AROUND THE STATE
By Melissa Onstad
Alternative dispute resolution firm JAMS, based in Irvine, has added eight mediators to offices throughout the state, includin...
Two Attorneys Join Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini
By Tamara Scott
On the Move: Palo-Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has recruited two lateral partners for its 366-attorney corporat...
Latino Organization Seeks Probe of 'Hate Group'
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The League of United Latin American Citizens, a national organization advocating civil rights for Hispanics, is ac...
O.C. Midwife Pleads Guilty to Baby's Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Lori Jensen, a former Orange County midwife accused of causing the stillborn birth of a baby by unlawfully adminis...
Tax Lawyer Applies Skills to e-Charities
By Liz Valsamis
As everything else is linked to the Web, so is charity, according to Cynthia Rowland, partner in San Francisco's Coblentz, Pat...
DEALS: PLATINUM EQUITY NOW HOLDS PROCESS SOFTWARE
By Melissa Onstad
Platinum Equity Holdings, a Los Angeles-based, privately held company specializing in acquiring Internet technology companies,...
Three Nabbed for Allegedly Defrauding Bank
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Three Mexico City men, one of them apparently an attorney, were arrested early this month in Chula Vista for defra...
NEWS: ACTING UCLA PROFESSOR GETS PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR
By Liz Valsamis
Kenneth N. Klee, acting professor at UCLA School of Law , has been given the 11th annual Frederic P. Sutherland Public Interes...
DEALS: SILICON ENERGY BUYS ENERGY CONCEPTS
By Liz Valsamis
Silicon Energy Corp. has acquired Energy Concepts Inc. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. ...
Court Upholds Police Liability in Child Abuse Case
By Columnist
By Thomas Edward Wall The cause of child abuse prevention received a major boost when the California Supreme Court unanimously...
DEALS: SANTA CLARA'S VERIDICOM BUYS GERMAN CONCERN
By Melissa Onstad
Santa Clara-based Veridicom Inc., which provides security software for use in business-to-business online transactions, has ac...
NEWS: ALLEN MATKINS PROMOTES SIX ASSOCIATES TO PARTNER
By Melissa Onstad
Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Gamble Leck & Mallory has promoted six associates to partner in its Irvine, Los Angeles, W...
Trickle Down
By Meredith Alexander
An executive from a Silicon Valley start-up was shocked when he talked to Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati - the region'...
LEGAL STIGMATA
By Columnist
The Closer: By Stanley W. Lamport Mark Twain once said, " Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." The world arou...
Starting the Workday by Riding the Surf
By Liz Valsamis
Plenty of busy attorneys rise each morning before the sun. But the alarm clock of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Jonathan Moshe...