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...
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided federal appeals court ruled that an Ethiopian couple should be granted asylum in the United ...
SAN FRANCISCO - New York's Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner is expanding its West Coast presence with a move into ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals panel has granted a reprieve to Los Angeles officers who were earlier held liable ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A roster change, gay rights decisions and a proposal to amend the state constitution marked a watershed year ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Officials Await Rise in Cap on Small-Claims Court Damages
By Linda Rapattoni And Cheryl Miller
SACRAMENTO - Forms have been updated, a new fee structure put in place and now California court officials say they're just wai...
LOS ANGELES - What do a cloned dog, paparazzi and former Enron executives have in common? To put it gently, each has massive p...
SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court Thursday to overt...
LA JOLLA - Montecito Regents LLC purchased a 574-unit apartment complex, Regents La Jolla at 9253 Regents Road. An 18-month fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Whether lawyers are looking to volunteer with senior citizens in Contra Costa County or with people with HIV ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Public-Sector Employers Can Adopt Mandatory Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Marina Porche - To avoid the expense of litigation, public-sector employers should consider requiring arbitr...
Labor/Employment
Tale of Two Copywright Acts: Work-for-Hire Subplot Dominates New Chapter
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Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Benjamin Davidson - Periodically, there are copyright cases that address employme...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - There seems to be an undercurrent buzzing around the legal community, both bench and bar, ...
LOS ANGELES - A man whose murder conviction was reversed last year after he spent 24 years in prison has added former Distric...
LOS ANGELES - The lawsuits scared off Dalena E. Hunter. The 25-year-old graduate student at UCLA once downloaded free music a...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Field Trips Take Neutral to Desert, Mountains for Work
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - In the days of the Old West, judges traveled by horseback and held court when they arrived at settlement outpost...
Appellate Practice
Size Mattered in Fiery Partisan Debate About 9th Circuit
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - Another year brought another 15,000 cases to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But none of the 2005 cases...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Wild Peacocks, 1, Residents, 0, In Palos Verdes Estates Flap
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Score one for the wild peacocks. Feral peafowl roaming the parklands and canyons of Palos Verdes Estates have wo...
SANTA ANA - Over the last two years, the Blackbird Music Project has put on several free orchestral concerts and provided the ...
FELONY REVERSED - A teenager who pocketed a cell phone that another youth dropped after fleeing a brawl did not commit the fel...
LOS ANGELES - Four Los Angeles County Superior Court bench officers are slated for retirement. They are Judges Richard G. Kolo...
OFFICE LONG BEACH - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler arranged a $19.1 million, 10-year loan to lock in a fixed rate through Aetna Lif...
LOS ANGELES - When Melanie Jo Triebel enrolled at Chapman School of Law, she hoped the long hours spent pouring over legal tex...
Labor/Employment
6th Circuit Offers Model for Handling Retaliation Claims
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Focus Column - By Geoffrey S. Sheldon and Connie M. Chuang - In enacting the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the 19...