RETAIL OCEANSIDE - Central Purchasing LLC, doing business as Harbor Freight Tools (a hardware store), signed a 60-month lease...
Forum Column - By M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan H. Marks - How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include ab...
Personal Injury & Torts
Liability Defense Can Argue Plaintiffs 'Should've Known'
By Columnist
Focus Column - By David Martinez and Hassan Allen - Subject to certain exceptions, manufacturers, distributors and sellers of ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Hurricanes Deluge Lawyers With Work, Especially for Prevention
By Anne Marie Ruff
TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Water is essential for life, but lawyers become essential when there is too much or too li...
SAN DIEGO - Pizza Hut diners here will get a break on prices, thanks to conditions of the settlement of a lawsuit that claime...
TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Law firm behemoth Baker & McKenzie recently passed on an opportunity to acquire the "v...
LOS ANGELES - Though two California law firms have announced plans to outsource word processing work, many firms remain hesit...
TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - To accommodate an influx of new attorneys, Latham & Watkins recently took over a secon...
TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Anyone who has picked up a newspaper knows that the California real estate market is huge,...
TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - San Diego attorney Jay Rains is emblematic of just how far globalization in Southern Calif...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County sheriff's oversight body is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death of a 2-year...
Government
Judge Says She Unknowingly Broke Campaign Rule
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VENTURA - Diana R. Hall, a Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge in the hot seat for allegedly taking improper campaign c...
TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - Two decades ago, commuters getting off work could speed down Interstate 215 between Rivers...
TOP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW FIRMS - When New York-based Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson publicly announced this s...
LOS ANGELES - Television advertisements portraying trial lawyers as noble protectors of the civil justice system are scheduled...
LOS ANGELES - Mass torts can be some of the most complicated, even confounding, cases in the civil justice system. Dozens, in ...
Media
Murder Case Coverage Spurs Cable-Comment Clampdown in Contra Costa
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Contra Costa County prosecutors are trying to do something a lot of others probably would like to do, too. Make ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Ruth Grunfeld celebrated her ninth birthday early in Berlin in 1937, before her family left for what i...
SACRAMENTO - The union representing state lawyers, administrative law judges and hearing officers voted overwhelmingly to rati...
LOS ANGELES - Caldwell, Leslie, Newcombe & Pettit has boosted its ranks to 17 lawyers by hiring three attorneys. The down...
LOS ANGELES - A 20-year legal battle over 14 acres at the corner of Alameda and 41st streets in South Los Angeles points up ho...
Letter to the Editor - Regarding your article "Tenants Sue Landlord After Housing Officials Don't Act" (Nov. 9 Los Angeles Dai...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Legislature Adds Heft to Laws Requiring Affordable Housing
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Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Jillian Blanchard - This year, the Legislature's primary focus i...
Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - Last Tuesday was a red-letter day for a blue state. Proposition 73 simply required p...
Judges and Judiciary
Columnist Mischaracterized Alito's Opinion
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - I appreciate an editorial page that presents many reasoned views. However, in presenting those views, I...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Superior Court judges have elected Covina attorney Rocky Lee Crabb as the court's newest...
LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb announced that Bruce Ishimatsu has joined the litigation department as a partner. Ishimatsu com...
LOS ANGELES - Brian Aronson said that Holland & Knight's commitment to beefing up its California real estate practice lur...
Firm Watch
Homeland Security Official Rejoins Gibson Dunn as Partner
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Robert C. Bonner, a top Department of Homeland Security official who recently resigned, plans to return to Gibs...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Garden Made From Vacant Lot Faces Razing for Warehouses
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - In the industrial corridor along Alameda at 41st Street in South Los Angeles is a 14-acre community garden fill...