RETAIL CHULA VISTA - Fremont Investment & Loan provided a $51.5 million retail construction loan to an affiliate of Sudber...
LOS ANGELES - The assignment was to write about Christmas. But the response was anything but jovial. "I ain't goin' be here C...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2005, the California Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendered a number ...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Rosen - The latest collision of patent and antitrust law has rocked the foundations of a 58-year-...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court on Wednesday reinstated a would-be class action alleging that a major office supply retailer...
LOS ANGELES - Claiming that the lawyer representing an individual indicted in connection with a criminal probe of class-action...
LOS ANGELES - What was charged as a major drug bust ended in a bust for the prosecution after a security-camera tape revealed...
LOS ANGELES - Chul Ick Chang was overwhelmed by the tree-shaded, hillside cemetery sitethat was being developed especially to...
Judges and Judiciary
Sex Changes on Web Are Easy, Painless, Cheap and Wholly Reversible
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, U.S. District Judge James Zagel of Chicago published a novel about a jaded federal judge in Chic...
LOS ANGELES - Considering his naval background and years ofexperience with sailing, it comes as no surprise that Los Angeles C...
SAN FRANCISCO - When IP lawyers from China and the United States gather at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco later this month, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two former employees of the Lawrence Livermore National lab who claim they were fired for blowing the whistle ...
APPOINTMENTS APPOINTEE - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named Timothy Simon, a lawyer with extensive experience in investment ...
Labor/Employment
Cleanup on Aisle 4! Labor Board Must Fix the Mess it Made of the Ralphs Lockout Case
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Forum Column - By Robert J. Stock - On Dec. 15, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles indicted Ralphs Grocery Co. for a slew of cri...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - 2005 surely will go down in the annals of journalism history as the year of news abuse. A ver...
Appellate Practice
Decisions Reveal Splits Over Approach to Discrimination
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Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Two discrimination cases...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a precedent-setting ruling, a state appellate court has ordered a well-connected building permit expediter ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Hilton Hotels Reels in Its International Twin
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Hilton Hotels Corp., the third-largest U.S. hotelier, has agreed to buy the lodging unit of Britain's Hilton Gr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brent Abel, a former president of the State Bar and the Bar Association of San Francisco known for his experti...
Judges and Judiciary
Treating Cases Like People, He Takes the Time to Listen
By Don Ray
LAGUNA NIGUEL - When Orange County Superior Court Judge David R. Chaffee took the bench in 1994, he brought with him 20 years ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox Tuesday named Latham & Watkins a...
OROVILLE - Tim Hogan arrived at the downtown courthouse with a shopping bag full of legal papers and few options. The 49-year-...
LOS ANGELES - They're elected by voters or appointed by the governor to the bench to uphold the law and make sure litigants re...
CITY OF INDUSTRY - Glimcher Realty Trust, a Columbus, Ohio-based real estate investment trust, purchased the 1.2 million-squar...
GOODBYE GUAM - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it's out of the business of hearing state cases fr...
LOS ANGELES - Applied Biosystems Group , a unit of Applera Corp. , announced it has agreed to acquire the research products di...
LOS ANGELES - Partners at the Los Angeles-based law firms Stephan Oringher Richman & Theodora and Miller & Holguin ha...
MULTIFAMILY HOLLYWOOD - GMAC Institutional Advisors and Security Poperties Inc., a joint venture, purchased the Serravella Apa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Around the summer of 2003, someone took a clandestine trip to a part of San Francisco that tourists rarely fr...
Forum Column - By Maria Blanco - In late October 2005, I traveled to Santiago, Chile, to represent the American Bar Associatio...