SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy is hoping Tom Brown, a new of-counsel, will bring...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brian Erb, a corporate partner that joined Ropes & Gray Aug. 1, said the Boston-based firm is known as a ...
LOS ANGELES - Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has announced the latest partner addition to its expanding corporate pract...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys who frequent Division 6 at the El Monte Courthouse know that Superior Court Judge Suzanne E. Persn is...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California developer who made millions of dollars building business parks in Silicon Valley and Ea...
Letter to the Editor - Capt. Jeff Bell, who, in his letter to the editor, calls psychology professor Gordon Finley a conspirac...
Roger R. Myers, chair of the media practice group of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in San Francisco, was to be presented with th...
Litigation partner Yolanda Orozco has jumped from Los Angeles' O'Neill Lysaght & Sun to Jones Day in Los Angeles. Orozco h...
RETAIL THOUSAND OAKS - Robertson Properties Group is expanding its local holdings with the $23.6 million acquisition of the Ne...
LOS ANGELES - Lilliana and Nicki emancipated from Los Angeles County's foster-care system with big hopes, but it didn't take ...
Labor/Employment
Compensation: When Employees Hit the Road, Time Is Often Money
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Desmond Lee - Paying employees for time spent traveling is, perhaps, one of the most widely misundersto...
Real Estate/Development
Sellers Might Need to Inform Buyer of Next-Door Problems
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Alan D. Wallace - A nuisance is "anything that is injurious to health, or is indecent or off...
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Jin W. Han - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is about to become the nation's firs...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Lawrence Teeter, who tried to overturn the conviction of Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan ...
LOS ANGELES - Madera County District Attorney Ernest J. LiCalsi is facing allegations in a civil suit that he extorted money f...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutrals Urge Changes for Court's Mediation Program
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - At a recent conference sponsored by the Southern California Mediation Association, Sherman Oaks mediator Charle...
Technology & Science
Attorney Discovers Calling, Becomes Professional Neutral
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Matthew P. Guasco was a mediator of sorts, even as a child. "My mother was a very, very challenging woman," said...
Litigation
Judge Allows Rejected Korean Heir to Proceed With Lawsuit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The son of one of the wealthiest businessmen in Korea, who claims he was wrongly stripped of his inheritance, can...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Mary Cranston was a young San Francisco lawyer angling to become a top antitrust trial attorney, she loo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired U.S. District Judge Fern M. Smith of the Northern District has joined JAMS. Smith, who left the bench ...
Intellectual Property
IP Lawyer Rejoins Former Brobeck Colleagues at Dewey
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - After five years in-house at a San Diego biotech company, Noemi "Nicky" Espinosa has joined Dewey Ballantine'...
MULTIFAMILY RIVERSIDE - BRE Properties Inc. acquired a 432-unit apartment complex for $75.8 million. The San Francisco-based m...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles immigration judge has ruled that a transgender woman, diagnosed as HIV positive, can remain in the...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - A fundamental tenet of mainstream journalism in the United States is that reporters should st...
Focus Column - Buisness Law By Leonard M. Shulman and James R. Sechrist - Routinely in a commercial lending context, one hears...
Corporate
Los Angeles Jurors Award Two Insurance Companies $2 Million in Legal-Malpractice Verdict
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury awarded two insurance companies $1.9 million this week in a legal malpractice verdict. The ju...
Education
Participation in State Bar's Unique Lawyer Assistance Program Grows
By Amy Spees
SAN FRANCISCO - Millbrae attorney Jeff Greenwald hit rock bottom when his methamphetamine supplier borrowed and wrecked the ca...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Metropolitan Transit Authority must pay $6 million to a man who was rendered a paraplegic in a cra...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Cleared Way for Suit Against Police During Rampart Scandal
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Court Judge William "Bill" J. Rea of Los Angeles died Wednesday. He was 85. Court spokeswoman June...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's initiative process conjures noble images of grassroots, power-to-the-people direct democracy. In...