Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, has introduced Joint Resolution 10, which urges t...
LOS ANGELES - One of the earliest recollections Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Brian Petraborg has of his childhood i...
Focus Column - Internet Crime - By Evan Granowitz and James R. Sechrist - Internet gambling is a multibillion-dollar-a-year in...
LOS ANGELES - The University of West Los Angeles is having a tumultuous summer, marked by reports of impending financial colla...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Robert L. Brock, a 58-year veteran of the legal community, has d...
LOS ANGELES - A private service is scheduled today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert I. Weil, a respected ju...
LOS ANGELES - Yahoo Inc. will pay $1 billion in cash for a 40 percent stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba.com, heatin...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan has reinvented himself again - this time landing a job at a big law fir...
Judges and Judiciary
Roberts' Passion for History of Court May Affect His Votes
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Even if Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. is the fire-breathing conservative most liberals fear, some obs...
Judges and Judiciary
Senators Need to Know Roberts' Likely Approach to Key Issues
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Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - With hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court set to begin in early S...
Appellate Practice
Make Sure Court Carries Out 'Separate Document' Process
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Paul D. Fogel and Mani Sheik - You're a happy camper. You won your case in federal court: Th...
LOS ANGELES - David J. Cowan, a Los Angeles business litigator, and Tamila Ipema, a research attorney with the Los Angeles Sup...
LOS ANGELES - To director James Cameron and other makers of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," it probably feels like dj vu, all ov...
LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood actor and an NFL player grabbed headlines this year for allegedly using the Whizzinator, a device in...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Monday ordered a national law firm and two of its attorneys to pay $267,000 in fees and costs a...
Column - By Garry Abrams - Two of the biggest stories out of the nation's capital this summer are legal thrillers worthy of th...
WASHINGTON - Although the current Supreme Court justices have spent considerable time deciding cases at the high court, they ...
OFFICE ONTARIO - Expanding its operations in the Inland Empire, IndyMac Bank has signed on for 40,000 square feet at the Airpo...
LOS ANGELES - Vowing to focus on improving job satisfaction among lawyers, Los Angeles trial attorney Brad D. Brian has taken...
Intellectual Property
'Grokster' Seems Unlikely to Prevent File Sharing by Itself
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Mitchell Zimmerman - The Supreme Court's decision on file sharing and copyright infr...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago resulted in the deaths of 200,00...
Pircher Nichols & Meeks has announced that Jeffrey N. Brown has joined the firm as a litigation partner in Los Angeles. Br...
LOS ANGELES - The Bar Association of San Francisco was one of four bar associations to receive the American Bar Association Pa...
LOS ANGELES - Greene Broillet & Wheeler has promoted firm associate Scott H. Carr to partner. Carr's addition increases th...
LOS ANGELES - A former Compton judge who pleaded no contest to embezzling thousands of dollars from his clients agreed Friday ...
LOS ANGELES - Handcuffed and casually dressed, Jack Abramoff, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful lobbyists, appeared in a...
Firm Watch
Winston & Strawn Bulks Up by Raiding Closed Coudert in S.F.
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office recently bulked up its corporate and finance group by hiring five at...
RETAIL SANTA ANA - Washington Capital Management Inc. acquired the 85,363-square-foot Brookhollow Showroom Retail Center for $...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Merrill Lynch & Co. agreement to pay $37 million to settle a class action brought on behalf of the firm...
Labor/Employment
Employment Mediation Cases Offer Unique Challenges to Resolution
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Employment Column - By Joel M. Grossman - Although mediating employment cases is in some ways no different from mediating othe...