Forum Column - By Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards - It was a short story in the March 12 edition of the Washington Post - ...
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has tapped Michael E. Meyer to become managing partner of the firm's Los Angeles offices. Meyer, a...
DLA ADDS LAND USE LAWYERS - Paul Hastings real estate lawyer Mark Nelson and four associates have decamped to DLA Piper Rudnic...
Intellectual Property
'Victoria's Secret' Didn't End Splits on Trademark Dilution
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Rachael G. Samberg - Three years ago, in Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003) ("Victoria'...
Administrative/Regulatory
Marrying Your Attorney Doesn't Protect Letters
By Don Debenedictisn
SANTA ANA - If you're in prison, marrying your lawyer won't protect your letters home from prying government eyes. The 9th U.S...
LOS ANGELES - Kevin L. Cole will become the new dean of the University of San Diego School of Law, effective in April, the sch...
LOS ANGELES - As homes collapsed and streets transformed into white-water rapids during Hurricane Katrina, second-year law stu...
Law Practice
Jewish Academy Honors Manatt Attorney for His Spiritual Work
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - During business hours Monday through Friday, Stanley Levy is senior counsel with Manatt Phelps & Phillips. E...
LOS ANGELES - Lord, Bissell & Brook has added litigator Christopher S. Reeder as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Reed...
LOS ANGELES - Long before Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping scandal shook Hollywood to its core, infamous Tinseltown madam Heidi...
LOS ANGELES - The federal government acted illegally when it detained a Sri Lankan Tamil immigrant for nearly five years while...
SAN FRANCISCO - No one knew it then, but it's clear now: Back in 1985, sitting on death row, convicted Los Angeles murderer Ja...
RESIGNATIONS Kamenetz, Bryan D. , Los Angeles LeBeau, Charles P. , San Diego Schenck, Ronald Dean , Wallowa, Ore. SUSPENSIONS ...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury's Bench Strength Draws Its New Land-Use Partner
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Despite a recent revenue dip and an internal reorganization, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is still attracting...
LOS ANGELES - Downtown Los Angeles' Frontier Hotel has two entrances: one for residents of the first seven floors, another for...
LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers has decided to eleminate its trust and estates practice now that the two partners in that ...
LOS ANGELES - For Edwin B. Reeser III, the managing partner of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal's Los Angeles office, a typic...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - In Gray v. Zurich Insurance Co., 65 Cal.2d 263 (1966), the state Supreme Court addressed th...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
A Quick Study Who Gets to Heart of the Matter
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - James L Smith never planned on going into law. As an undergraduate at Redlands University, he was having a good ...
Dear Readers: Judge Delbert E. Wong, the first Chinese-American to be appointed to the bench in the continental United States,...
Labor/Employment
Equivalency of Positions Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Worker or Firm
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Allen J. Loeb - The Americans With Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave ...
Letter to the Editor - In her Op-Ed piece, "A Separate and Unequal Dropout Rate" (March 14 Daily Journal), Areva Martin opines...
Judges and Judiciary
Contributing in the Courtroom and on the Ballfield
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - U.S. Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd is as deft at lobbing questions to lawyers as he is at hurling a baseball to ...
LOS ANGELES - They've taken some of the nation's highest-profile cases and are among the most famous attorneys in the world. A...
LOS ANGELES - Only individuals - and not consumer groups - can sue an insurance company, challenge the insurance commissioner...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Essence of Property Rights Is Protecting What You Have
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - In his column ("Oregon and What's to Come with Property Rights," March 13 Daily Journal), noted propert...
Focus Column - By Bruce Givner - Parents should consult with competent counsel and complete their estate tax planning long bef...
Forum Column - By Enrique E. Zepeda-Vzquez - On February 23, the government of Mexico arrested the infamous Armando Garcia Arr...
SANTA ANA - Federal prosecutors wanted the first witness in the federal death-penalty trial of Aryan Brotherhood leaders to l...
LOS ANGELES - Jones Day partner Robert W. Dickerson once read a performance evaluation that described an associate as "out of ...