Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - On June 9, 1941 - six months before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor that would bring t...
LOS ANGELES - It took more than 40 lawyers, but Arden Realty Inc., Southern California's largest office landlord, finally rea...
Judges and Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall Airport Stirs Old Issues in Maryland
By Lawrence Hurleyn
BALTIMORE - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall may have been dead for more than a decade, but his fractious relationship ...
Appellate Practice
Solicitor General Rides to the Rescue in Pneumatic Widow's Case
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Thanks to the U.S. solicitor general, Anna Nicole Smith - former Playboy Playmate, one-time Guess model, retired...
Law Practice
Year's Top Stories Follow Stars, Juries, Judges
By Leslie Simmons And Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - As natural disasters found notoriety in 2005, California's legal scene was making waves of its own. News junki...
SAN FRANCISCO - The family of convicted murderer Scott Peterson has hired two prominent Bay Area criminal defense attorneys t...
MORE TIME TO FILE - An inmate who did not have access to his legal documents while being held in solitary confinement should b...
DISBARMENTS Castrellon, Sue Ellen , Chula Vista Schaefer, John M. , Las Vegas RESIGNATIONS Moats, Donald Gene , Walnut Creek S...
Intellectual Property
Holder of 'Submarine Patents' Quietly Ends Infringement Suit
By Staff Writer
Prolific inventor Jerome Lemelson closely guarded his technology patents for almost half a century and in turn became rich of...
WASHINGTON - After a decade of stability at the Supreme Court, 2005 was a momentous year that brought uncertainty, surprise a...
JUDGE REPRIMANDED - The state Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished a San Bernardino County Superior Court j...
SAN JOSE - Essex Apartment Value Fund II purchased The Enclave apartment complex at 4355 Renaissance Drive for $127 million. D...
Tax
Tax-Incentive for Filmmakers Holds Trap in Calculation of Movies' Costs
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Marvin A. Kirsner - A new film tax incentive that was created by the Jobs Creation Act of 2004 to encourage ...
Forum Column - By Marc Angelucci and Glenn Sacks - At the age of 11, Maegan Woods tried to stop a domestic dispute between her...
Public Interest
Domestic Spying Is in Line With President's Constitutional Powers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey - Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush ordered surveillance o...
Focus Column - By John E. Lattin IV - The Bernardo Heights Country Club would probably like a mulligan now that the California...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors in Los Angeles can now reschedule their service and retrieve reporting information from the Los Angeles S...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Experts Say Time's Ripe for Merging in the Street
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - It ain't over yet, folks. After a booming year of mergers and acquisitions, 2006 may be the strongest year yet, ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Disk Drive Competition Shrinks as Seagate Purchases Maxtor
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - In a $1.9 billion deal attorneys involved called "legally intensive," disk drive maker Seagate Technology announ...
Law Practice
Grant Will Match Battered-Women's Shelters With Law Firms to Provide Pro Bono Help
By Anat Rubinn
When 10 Los Angeles County battered women's shelters were sued a few years ago for refusing to house a self-described "batter...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who signed a partnership agreement promising to pay his firm a percentage of the business generated by...
LOS ANGELES - Carolina Perez's landlord recently tried to evict her from the $700, two-bedroom apartment she shares with her 4...
MULTIFAMILY SAN DIEGO - Burnham Real Estate's Capital Markets Group arranged a $76.95 million loan for the acquisition and con...
LOS ANGELES - This year concludes much as it began, with the legal industry buzzing about law firm mergers, both realized and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Terry O'Malley was the 49th lawyer at San Diego's Gray Cary Ames & Frye in 1975. But O'Malley never thoug...
LOS ANGELES - Will the saga of Tookie and the Terminator ever end? Or will we be bombarded forever with an untold number of se...
Labor/Employment
Jury Awards Pilot $12.5 Million In Wrongful Termination Case
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - A North American Airlines captain won more than $12.5 million in a wrongful termination case out of Oakland. Ran...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may have thrown a lifeline to the company that makes the popular BlackBerry...
Judges and Judiciary
'Doing Justice' Inspires Jurist's Search for Pragmatic Solutions
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - It's not uncommon for judges to receive Christmas cards from lawyers, clerks or other members of the court famil...
LOS ANGELES - San Diego-based Grace Hollis Lowe Hanson & Schaeffer has named Rebecca "Becky" Cady partner. Cady specialize...