SAN FRANCISCO - A jailhouse informant who has agreed to testify against suspected cop killer David Hill has an offer from pros...
Appellate Practice
Panel Lets Kin of Man Killed By Police Sue in State Court
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Despite losing in federal court, the family of a man fatally shot by Pomona police can proceed with a state laws...
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Taliban's defense lawyer, James Brosnahan, is now playing offense for civil liberties in the war ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Nonagenarian Still Practices After All These Years
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - Joseph Lewis has a family, a law career, dabbled in politics, written several books, tried cases of historical i...
MULTIFAMILY BEVERLY HILLS - Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Management Group and its joint venture partner, Wachovia Securities , ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Scholar Tackles Civil Rights Issues With Thought, Eloquence
By Columnist
Book Review - By Harvey Gee - With the release last year of the film "Brokeback Mountain," which focuses on a romance between ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Probation Department chief Paul Higa has died after suffering a stroke a week ago. He was 53....
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments on Monday confirmed the appointment of U.S. District Judge Nora M. Manel...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - In the famous story "Rashoman," published in 1915 by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, ...
Focus Column - By Henry Z. Carbajal III Trade secret misappropriation litigation presents a paradox. To mount a defense, a d...
Corporate
Small Capital Lobbying Firm Signs Up Drug Giant Pfizer Inc.
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A small lobbying firm has picked up a big pharmaceutical company as a client. Kathleen Mossburg & Associates...
SACRAMENTO - Fresno County Superior Court Judge Carlos A. Cabrera vividly recalls his life as a young boy in a small Mexican t...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego County man who hoped to cash in on the popularity of Nascar racing says a Colorado company gummed up h...
LOS ANGELES - It was a weekend that saw 17 former inmates solemnly tell audiences about their wrongful convictions and their h...
Immigration
Congressional Break Leaves Mixed-Status Families in Limbo
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - While immigration reform is stalled in Congress as lawmakers take a two-week holiday break, time is running out ...
SAN FRANCISCO - History books say most civilized countries abolished debtors' prisons in the 19th century. But lawyer and Bay...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission has taken the unusual step of removing language from corporate sentencing guidelin...
LOS ANGELES - It could be weeks before the case or cases to be tried in California's Vioxx liability trials are set as both si...
LOS ANGELES - No committees. No bureaucracy. No hands-on all-partners meetings. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chris Clay, a consultant to the state Assembly's Insurance Committee, considers his license to practice law "a...
SAN DIEGO - Hart Realty Advisers purchased the 110,994-square-foot Hibiscus Plaza at 9350 Waxie Way from Japan-based Hibiscus ...
REDDING - An icy wind slashing directly from the nearby snow-covered slopes of the Trinity Alps discourages loitering outside ...
On March 28, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most significant case to date on the limits of President Bush'...
Intellectual Property
Companies Need to Establish Trade-Secrets Protection Plan
By Columnist
Historically, intellectual property assets such as trade secrets have been viewed as enhancing a company's competitive advanta...
Large Firms
Cooley Recruit Will Launch Real Estate Practice in San Diego
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Cooley Godward has recruited Michael Levinson to launch a real estate practice in its San Diego office. Levinso...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for veteran Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jean E. Matusinka. ...
Civil Rights
S.F. Securities Litigator Moves to Sheppard's L.A. Office
By Anna Oberthurn
Securities litigator John Stigi III has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Los Angeles office as a partner after...
SAN FRANCISCO - House Speaker Tom DeLay's decision last Monday to bow out of politics shocked people on both sides of the poli...
Litigation
76,000-Word Appeal Held Up as Everything a Brief Should Not Be
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - "This is an appeal run amok." So begins a 46-page appellate court ruling that castigates a Sacramento attorney...
LOS ANGELES - Patent attorney R. Michael Ananian has moved his practice to the Menlo Park office of Perkins Coie. He joined th...