LOS ANGELES - Brad D. Brian's friends and adversaries agree he is not afraid to get his hands dirty in the service of a case o...
SAN DIEGO - Neptune Hospitality Advisors arranged $49.05 million in senior financing for a 672-room Pinnacle Hotels USA Portfo...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Firms Enjoy Upswing in First-Quarter M&A Deals
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the bigger-dollar deals are still ironed out by New York-based lawyer...
Focus Column - By Linda Bulmash - Prior to the popularity of mediation as a dispute-resolving tool, litigators often had diffi...
Immigration
Illegal Immigration Isn't an Easy Issue for Blacks in America
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Two things happened within a day of each other this month that rammed race back into...
Forum Column - By Dale A. Baich - One concept both sides of the death-penalty debate can embrace is this: If America continues...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case involving alleged medical abuse of puppies by scientific researchers who lied about their project to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman announced Wednesday it has added another seasoned partner to the firm's financ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco District Attorney Joe Freitas, whose civic career crashed after a jury convicted politica...
Administrative/Regulatory
Hidden Fetters Keep Aryan Defendants in Close Check
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Can invisibility help keep justice blind? That's a question that keeps bugging me about the curren...
LOS ANGELES - Calling the treatment of youthful offenders in county juvenile halls and camps "inhumane and illegal," reform ad...
LOS ANGELES - Another botched photo lineup. Another reversed conviction. Less than a week after a state blue ribbon commissio...
Insites
Stantec Acquires Dufresne-Henry, Adding to East Coast Operations
By Aubrey Poolen
NORTH SPRINGFILED, Vt. - Stantec's acquisition of multidiscipline design firm Dufresne-Henry closed on Monday. The acquisition...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fans of "Star Wars" know Sith Lords as extraterrestrial warriors dedicated to the dark side. But when CEO Patr...
MARINA DEL REY - George H. Mitsanas, principal of Newmark Realty Capital Inc., arranged $40 million of leasehold financing for...
Constitutional Law
Lobbyists Struggle to Revive an Organization of Their Own
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - As the nation's capital reacts to lobbyist scandals with reforms, some California lobbyists are laboring to rejuv...
Focus Column - By Mark E. Harrington - Are you a "caveman lawyer" or a "millennium litigator?" Much as the dinosaurs used to ...
Forum Column - By Michael F. Ball - "No, really, this is when you are supposed to thank and excuse me!" This is what I though...
LOS ANGELES - High-profile entertainment and business litigators Dale F. Kinsella and Howard Weitzman opened a boutique firm i...
There's no verdict yet on whether anyone in a San Francisco investors group tried to sabotauge a drug company's success on the...
Judges and Judiciary
Surfacing to Take on Management Challenge in Court
By Paria Kooklann
LOS ANGELES - When she's not in her courtroom, Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell often can be found under water. An avid scuba div...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a child, Bonnie Sabraw sat entranced as her grandmother described fascinating lawsuits she worked on as leg...
Law Practice
Panel Says Jury Needn't Know That Wages Weren't Truly Lost
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The jury that awarded $108,000 to a former partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman because of a motorcycle ...
LOS ANGELES - California stands to lose $60 million in federal funding in 2007 if the state does not improve its care of abuse...
WASHINGTON - The plight of a criminal defendant whose Southern California attorney was yanked off his case in a Missouri court...
Focus Column - By Don Willenburg - The "next big thing" in California law on expert witnesses will likely be the California Su...
Administrative/Regulatory
Camus Clung Desperately to the 'Law We Carry in Our Hearts'
By Amy Kalinn
Book Review - By Gerald Sato - Albert Camus (1913-1960), the Nobel Prize-winning French author, has a reputation for morality ...
Judges and Judiciary
Letting Arbitrators Decide on Class Arbitration May Be Unwarranted
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Imre S. Szalai - Almost three years ago, in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003), a sha...
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for James P. Natoli, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge . ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Five federal appellate judges dissented Monday from a full-court refusal to reconsider a challenge to the cons...