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A ski resort's plan to make artificial snow out of recycled water violates the religious freedom of several Native American tr...
LOS ANGELES - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton announced Monday the opening of an office in Shanghai, China, marking the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge, for what is believed to be the first time, on Monday blocked the sales of genetically enginee...
Sharon Majors-Lewis, the first minority and the first woman judicial appointments secretary in California, says she was disapp...
Two Santa Clara County residents who claim they were sickened by reused needles can boot an allegedly prejudiced judge from he...
Military Law
Fire at L.A. Juvenile Hall Signals Wider Issue for Youth Lockups
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Despite federal monitoring of Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls, critics say a recent fire that sent one...
Large Firms
Former Drinker Biddle Partners to Pursue Complex Litigation
By Dan Schechnern
Industry Watch - By Rebecca Beyer - On the first day, Thomas M. Moore and Ronald T. Labriola unveiled Moore Labriola, a Southe...
Focus Column - By Stuart P. Meyer - Criminal prosecutions of trade-secret thefts are on the rise and could help civil cases. ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Davis Wright Increases Number of Health-Care Attorneys
By Annemarie Ruffn
Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - Three new health-care attorneys have joined Davis Wright Tremaine's Los Angeles office i...
Web Exclusive - By Craig Anderson - One of the two defendants indicted for backdating stock options at Brocade Communications ...
Industry Watch - By Bobbi Murray - Thomas J. Friel Jr., a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish, has been named head of the firm's...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - Marcus McDaniel is moving up in the world, while his rates are coming down. ...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - Ten years ago, Stacy Taylor was a client of one of DLA Piper's predecessor firms, Gray Cary ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court is taking a hard look at a death-row inmate's claim that he was framed for the 19...
LOS ANGELES - The attorney best known for representing presidential paramour Monica Lewinsky will depart the Los Angeles-based...
SANTA ANA - In a rare pre-emptive strike, attorneys for a national chain of boutiques have clobbered overtime suits by store m...
Industry Watch - By Jason Song - Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis had about 45 attorneys in its Los Angeles offi...
Industry Watch - By Max Follmer - LOS ANGELES - Staking a financial claim in the renaissance of downtown Los Angeles, Mark J....
On the Move - By Alexa Hyland
He may be new to the bench, but Los Angeles Judge Richard S. Kemalyan, wealthy in experience as a trial attorney, is anything ...
Three decades later, Brian Hartnell is reliving his brush with death at the hands of the Zodiac killer. Hartnell, a Redlands l...
Entertainment & Sports
Billionaire Brother Wins Trial in Long-Fought Sibling Rivalry
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - A billionaire who made his fortune in real estate owes nothing to his older brother, a Superior Court jury found...
Focus Column - By Robert D. "Bo" Links - In the second of a two-part series about drafting effective arbitration clauses, an a...
Forum Column - By David Aronoff - A recent anti-SLAPP decision regarding a movie about Generation Xers got it all wrong, write...
Judges and Judiciary
Far From Simple Judge Switch on Complex Litigation Court
By Donna Dominon
Web Exclusive - The controversial removal of the popular judge who runs San Francisco's complex litigation calendar is getting...
After a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Diego has found that two former Gateway Computers executives hid key informati...
SAN JOSE - A Massachusetts federal judge has tossed out a Virginia company's lawsuit claiming software used by Google Inc. tha...
A Riverside County judge was wrong to allow TV coverage of a court hearing to decide whether a three-time rapist should remain...
Employment Column - By Donald C. Potter - What is an employer supposed to do when a worker tries to run a ministry at the offi...