Letter to the Editor - Regarding the story "Internal Split Develops Over Direction Taken by ACLU Executive Director" (Dec. 9 D...
Focus Column - By Robert C. Barnes - A standard real estate due diligence tool, the Phase I environmental site assessment, is ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Paramount Pictures Swoops In, Sweeps DreamWorks SKG Off Its Feet
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Paramount Pictures sealed a deal over the weekend to buy DreamWorks SKG for $1.6 billion, thwarting rival NBC-U...
OROVILLE - Butte County Superior Court Judge Stephen E. Benson has the lanky frame of a basketball player, the rsum of a histo...
Law Practice
DA Picks Veteran Prosecutor Spillane to Be His Chief Deputy
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - John K. Spillane, a veteran prosecutor who has held several top positions in the Los Angeles County district att...
LOS ANGELES - Public Defender Maria E. Stratton has for a dozen years been a quiet but ubiquitous presence in the Los Angeles ...
LOS ANGELES - Business trips usually are reserved for networking with potential clients. But for 27 members of the Beverly Hil...
LOS ANGELES - Electronic Arts Will Pay $680 Million for Jamdat Electronic Arts Inc. , the world's biggest video game publisher...
WOODLAND HILLS - The Bascom Group LLC, in a joint venture with Rockwood Capital, purchased the 477-unit Renaissance Apartment ...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the much anticipated case of Schaffer v. Weast, 126 S...
Focus Column - By Kimberly Colwell - Every day lawsuits are won and lost based on the quality of the evidence presented at tri...
LOS ANGELES - Does picking up a cell phone that its owner, with whom you had been engaged in a brawl, dropped unknowingly cons...
SAN DIEGO - A lawyer who was the first in the state to prosecute a business for selling chemicals to meth-amphetamine makers w...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Lawyers Help San Francisco Clinic Fend Off Forced Sale of Its Building
By Amy Spees
SAN FRANCISCO - The Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center is making room for Nadine Burke, a Stanford- and Harvard-educated pediatr...
SACRAMENTO - Frank "Fred" Aguiar, who co-wrote California's "three-strikes" law, was named as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Family's WWII Internment Helped Inspire Incoming BASF President's Career
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - When Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Joan Haratani takes over today as president of the Bar Association of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sex with a minor is not a crime of violence and should not be the basis of the deportation of a Peruvian immi...
Entertainment & Sports
Despondent Pooh Can't Escape Hundred-Acre Courtroom
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Fantasies certainly are popular in Hollywood these days. From "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy to "The Chronicles...
SACRAMENTO - Funding for California's statewide drug-court program is about to run dry unless the state passes legislation to ...
RESIGNATION Smith, Janice E. , Las Vegas, Nev. SUSPENSIONS Harrington, Mylik R. , Los Angeles Manning, Michael E. , Covina Mer...
LOS ANGELES - Twice a week, lawyers from Public Counsel and Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc. make the 60-mile round trip f...
HOSPITALITY LOS ANGELES - Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. provided a $49.75-million loan to the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, a...
Labor/Employment
Meal Break Violations Held to Shorter Statute of Limitations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Rod M. Fliegel - On Friday, Dec. 2, Christmas may have come early for some California employers with the iss...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - "Holidays were always a hard time for us," recalls a young woman who spent her adoles...
SAN DIEGO - Prominent trial attorney Steven M. Strauss has joined Cooley Godward as a litigation partner in the firm's San Di...
LOS ANGELES - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has pledged $1 million to establish an endowed chair at the UCLA School o...
Education
Lawsuit Pits Christian Students Against UC Rule
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - Most American high-school students study the same things in history classes: the Magna Carta, the French Revolution...
Criminal
Former Judge Will Plead Guilty To Child-Porn Charges Today
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline will plead guilty this afternoon to four federal counts...
Judges and Judiciary
Longtime Adviser to Elected Officials Is Chosen to Replace Corrigan
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed his former legal affairs secretary, Peter Siggins, to fi...
Judges and Judiciary
Focusing on Efficiency - With Flash and Pizzazz
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - To use a document as evidence in a trial, an attorney must have it marked, numbered and distributed to opposing co...