SAN FRANCISCO - A few weeks ago, O'Melveny & Myers partner Darin Snyder stood in front of about 700 students at Balboa Hig...
Firm Watch
Beer Bribe Opens Door to Law Career for Recent Greenberg Hire
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - The promise of a free lunch was not enough to get John J. Giovannone to sit for the LSAT. A college friend didn'...
Firm Watch
Holland Trusts Practice Continues Flowing Into Luce Forward
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Five more attorneys have defected from Holland & Knight's trusts and estates practice group to join Luce, Fo...
LOS ANGELES - As Newport Beach-based Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth makes its debut in the Los Angeles legal market today...
SAN FRANCISCO - From getting tailed through the streets of Kuala Lumpur to working on the recent land-use scrap over San Franc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Carlos Bea may be the only active federal circuit judge to have faced a deportation order from the U.S. govern...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seattle bankruptcy lawyer Jay Jump saw a spike in business when he hired an outside consultant to arrange word...
LOS ANGELES - While some attorneys are generating new lawsuits in the wake of the indictment of celebrity private eye Anthony ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Caldwell, Leslie, Newcombe & Pettit recently lassoed litigator Linda M. Burrow from Munger...
Forrest Booth has joined Severson & Werson's San Francisco office as a partner in the firm's insurance practice group. Boo...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Christopher Cox was named to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, many critics couldn't resist co...
Labor/Employment
The 'Little Things' Can Cause Big Headaches for Employers
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - An employer forgets to put the number of hours worked on a pay stub or rounds t...
Focus Column - By David Garcia and Erica Alterwitz - Very recently, two decisions from the 4th District Court of Appeal have u...
The Los Angeles district attorney should not be disqualified from prosecuting the driver of a deadly car crash that killed th...
Litigation
Jury Awards Santa Monica Bus Accident Victim $2.6 Million
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - Haroun Mehdipour, 79, left his Santa Monica apartment on a spring morning in 2004 to catch the bus to the senio...
Administrative/Regulatory
Neutral Cuts Through Huff, Gruff of Lawyers
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - Venetta S. Tassopulos finds similarities between her former duties as a U.S. magistrate judge and her current ro...
LOS ANGELES - A few years ago, Jay Ford's professional career was dominated by business torts and attorney compensation issues...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel has ruled that a Los Angeles Juvenile Court judge abused his discretion when he ordered...
Appellate Practice
Beat Poet's Widow Can Sue L.A. Jail Over Wrongful Death
By Amelia Hansen
Call it poetic justice. A famous 350-pound Venice Beach beat poet who was jailed for having sexual contact with a teenager, fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - No judge likes it when litigants or lawyers abuse the justice system. Some judges impose sanctions. Others mak...
LOS ANGELES - Three veteran judges have retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench, one effective today and anot...
SUSPENSIONS Bell, Carole A. , London Blankenship, Mark Irvin , Riverside Dell'Osso, Michael , Tracy Dervaes Jr., Scott aka Sco...
LOS ANGELES - The courts have come a long way from landmark civil rights precedents establishing racial and gender equality. T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys routinely hire private investigators to hunt for evidence. Now, following explosive claims of miscon...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The great irony in the gargantuan march of tens of thousands in Los Angeles and othe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed veteran prosecutor Richard M. Goul to the seat on the Los A...
Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Ted M. Sichelman, and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - The year 2006 began with federal courts of ap...
SAN DIEGO - Bernard H. Siegan, a law school professor who counseled Eastern European and South American government officials o...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a senior art director in the marketing department of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Thomas Morris was ins...
LOS ANGELES - There is one thing that lawyers need to remember before appearing in U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert N. Block's cou...