SAN FRANCISCO - The district attorney's office refused Wednesday to file murder charges in the case of a slain rap artist, pr...
Law Practice
Law Firms Use Specialists to Tackle Recruitment, Retention
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Forty-six percent of law firms have a designated diversity manager whose primary description is to "develop or p...
LOS ANGELES - By the time John H. Reid was 18, he'd wanted to be a lawyer for more than half his life. In 1957, fictional atto...
International
Where in the World Is Michael Jackson's Deposition? Pick a Continent
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Bahrain, Paris or London? When it came to picking a place to depose pop star Michael Jackson in a civil suit in ...
LOS ANGELES - A monsignor in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles cannot assert "clergy privilege" to avoid disclosi...
JURORS LIKE PLAIN ENGLISH - Three out of four potential jurors say California's new plain-English jury instructions are easier...
SAN DIEGO - The judge who made the rare decision to reverse a jury's conviction of a San Diego city councilman in a corruption...
SAN FRANCISCO - First, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco wouldn't allow a major energy fraud case to be decided by a...
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The state Supreme Court's "Werdegar committee" on publication of appellate opinions - c...
Mergers & Acquisitions
U.S. Buyout Company Plans to Add Canadian Software Maker
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Kirkland & Ellis attorneys are representing San Francisco buyout firm Golden Gate Capital in its $1 billion...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor Testifies He Misstated Accusations
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VENTURA - A prosecutor who accused a Santa Barbara County trial judge of improperly questioning him in court admitted Tuesday...
LOS ANGELES - Some paralegals in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office are balking at an effort to incorporate th...
LOS ANGELES - Nissan North America's California-based attorneys will have to decide whether to join the company's relocation ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Arthur T. Bridgett, a founding partner of the longtime San Francisco law firm Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate court appears comfortable with allowing an influential San Diego businessman to be banned f...
Government Contracts
Delgadillo Launches Closer Oversight of Outside Counsel
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - After coming under fire for soaring outside legal counsel costs, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has implemented ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators Tuesday touted their progress in enforcing environmental laws, saying they had prodded com...
LOS ANGELES - Federal appeals court judges appeared bothered Tuesday by the government's use of "subinformants" in drug cases....
LOS ANGELES - Japanese construction company Obayashi Corp. plans to snap up a North Carolina-based construction firm for an un...
CHIEF JUDGE RALLIES FOR COURTS - California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George took to the airwaves this week, providin...
LOS ANGELES - Among some of the state's trial lawyers, Frank M. Pitre is known as "The Count." Former Consumer Attorneys of Ca...
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,...