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Litigation


Former Prison-Gang Prosector Might Testify

Apr. 7, 2006
By Don De Benedictis

SANTA ANA - In an unusual development in an unusual trial, the former federal prosecutor who put together the massive case aga...


Litigation


Jury Awards Ex-Prosecutor $1.5 Million

Apr. 7, 2006
By Don De Benedictis

SANTA ANA - A jury awarded a Los Angeles prosecutor $1.5 million Wednesday finding that City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo illegal...


Litigation


Judge Declares Officers' Rights Were Violated in Locker Room

Apr. 7, 2006
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - What the heck were they thinking? U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips didn't use those precise words. But she...


Commercial Law


SAN FRANCISCO - Will companies start auctioning their patents on eBay? It's not a likely scenario given the complexity of most...


Corporate


Small Town Can Block Wal-Mart

Apr. 7, 2006
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling hailed as a major victory for cities over superstores, the Central Valley town of Turlock has prevai...


Large Firms


Reed Smith, Richards Butler to Merge

Apr. 7, 2006
By Drew Combs

Pittsburgh-based law firm Reed Smith announced Wednesday that it has signed a letter of intent to merge with Richards Butler, ...


Law Practice


Pillsbury Partner in Running to Replace DeLay

Apr. 7, 2006
By Kevin Livingston

House Speaker Tom DeLay's decision Monday to bow out of politics shocked people on both sides of the political spectrum. Few w...


Law Practice


Big Deal

Apr. 6, 2006
By Geneva Whitmarsh

Echoes of the Boom - Deals surged in California last year, as public companies worked to grow firms and buyout companies put t...


Law Practice


Informant Hidden by Prosecutors in Killing

Apr. 6, 2006
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutors took extraordinary steps to protect the anonymity of a jailhouse informant, their st...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The State Bar is thinking about expanding the classes of members who can vote in electi...


Focus Column - By Michael Mallow - California's unfair competition law, Business and Professions Code Section 17200, et seq., ...


Discipline


Masry Firm May Face Donation Penalty

Apr. 6, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The Westlake Village law firm Masry & Vititoe, made famous by the Oscar-winning movie "Erin Brokovich," could...


Firm Watch


Meyers Nave Opens in L.A.

Apr. 6, 2006
By Drew Combs

LOS ANGELES - No longer can Oakland-based Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson be accused of just tire kicking when it come...


Law Practice


New Law Library: What 25 Years of Filing Fees Buys

Apr. 6, 2006
By Don De Benedictis

SANTA ANA - One morning, Christopher J. Skorina popped by the law library in the Santa Ana civic center to do a little researc...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Two Supreme Court justices had a message for Congress on Tuesday about a proposal to televise their proceedings: ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carol B. Goodson is adept at dodging the spotlight, but she is far from ...


Administrative/Regulatory


'Many Admirable Qualities' Won't Help

Apr. 5, 2006
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Jesse Alejo was just looking for a ride. When his friend, Erick Loza, drove up, he was more than happy to jump i...


Intellectual Property


Breaking Intellectual Property's Glass Ceiling

Apr. 5, 2006
By William Arthur Haynes

Many intellectual property lawyers would concede that women have traditionally been underrepresented in the practice area. Des...


Labor/Employment


Whistle-Blowing Court Staffer Gets Boss's Job

Apr. 5, 2006
By Savannah Blackwell

SAN FRANCISCO - A court staffer who blew the whistle on her boss for allegedly steering computer consulting contracts to his r...


Litigation


Cities Sued Over Billing for Drunk-Driving Charges

Apr. 5, 2006
By Don De Benedictis

SANTA ANA - In January, three sole practitioners in Laguna Beach and San Francisco soundly lost an appeal in a little-noticed ...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - A murder conviction shouldn't be knocked down to manslaughter just because a man so resented being called a "fag...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Two California Supreme Court justices might experience a sense of deja vu during arguments today in a case wit...


Firm Watch


Ten Depart Greenberg to Form New Law Firm

Apr. 5, 2006
By John Hanusz

LOS ANGELES - Two of the most prominent lawyers at the firm at the center of the wiretapping and racketeering probe of celebri...


Immigration


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide how federal immigration law should treat a legal resident alien wh...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Hollywood director and producer John McTiernan on Monday with a sing...


Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - When is a change in the law not a change at all? When that change "lives" only on pap...


Administrative/Regulatory


Making It Onto Wall of Fame

Apr. 4, 2006
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel

LOS ANGELES - Betty Broady remembers her husband, Judge Earl C. Broady Sr., as a fair and compassionate jurist. "But the two o...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for April 3

Apr. 4, 2006
By Aubrey Poolen

SAN DIEGO - LabCorp leased a 109,780-square-foot building in the Sabre Springs Business Park at 13112 Evening Creek Drive Sout...


International


Focus Column - By Bruce Jackson and David Carlson - In the unpublished California Superior Court case Buettner v. Bertelsmann ...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - According to G.K. Chesterton, an early 20th century English writer, "Man is most comfo...