INDUSTRIAL VAN NUYS - Wesco Track & Tire signed a $950,000 lease for 17,000 square feet of industrial space in the Commer...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Outsourcing: Mandatory Arbitration System Falls Short of Justice
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Lafflin - The problem with Rome is that everything is for sale. -Sallust Whereas voluntary arbitration...
Appellate Practice
Circuit Splits Involve Cases On U.S.- And Foreign Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Alan J. Heinrich, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - U.S. appeals...
Administrative/Regulatory
'Tampered' Warrant Deemed an Innocent Mistake
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals court ruled Monday that a San Francisco police officer committed an innocent mistak...
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite years of battling - twice finishing in a tie and a third time nearly so - the combatants in the Humbo...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Court Blocks San Francisco Hotel Owners' Takings Lawsuit
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Ending a 12-year legal dispute over San Francisco's hotel conversion ordinance, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Mon...
Criminal
Death-Row Inmate Received Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, High Court Holds
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - In the latest in a series of decisions highlighting the role of defense attorneys in capital cases, the U.S. Supr...
LOS ANGELES - The ACLU is protesting an initiative they say could create a secondary police force in Los Angeles without any ...
Litigation
Justices Will Review Antitrust Case Involving Ink Company in Southland
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review an antitrust case involving a Southern California-based ink company...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles appellate court research attorney Mary Lou Katz has been elected the newest Superior Court Commissi...
SAN JOSE - In a motion that Toshiba Corp. says could cost it billions of dollars in sales, attorneys for a Fremont technology...
Civil Rights
Advocacy Guns Take Aim at Press Critics of Notorious B.I.G. Case
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Perry R. Sanders Jr., the lead attorney for the estate of rap mogul Notorious B.I.G., came out with...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court dealt a sharp blow Monday to California's landmark financial privacy law, considered o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown, recently confirmed for a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for...
SAN DIEGO - Randa M. Trapp's journey to the legal world was anything but direct, but she had two guideposts from her parents ...
Law Practice
IP Lawyer Rejoins Her Mentor At Heller Ehrman's S.F. Office
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Annette Hurst started working with Patricia Thayer her first day as a young associate at Howard Rice Nemerovs...
SAN DIEGO - The arraignment of six city employees caught up in San Diego's pension scandal took a surprise turn Monday, when ...
A Montebello Fire Department volunteer who worked just 84 hours over three and a half shifts for the city recently settled for...
With a high-profile client roster, multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and tenure at her law firm Vicki Freimann's practice was ...
Two students who gave up on their high school and joined independent studies after being spit on, shoved and threatened by oth...
Catherine Graham went to Santa Rosa doctor Eric Gordon for the treatment of Lyme disease. Joseph Leach sought out Gordon for t...
When Marsha Paskin went to Dr. Marc Kramer for surgery to reduce her snoring, Kramer told her about the risk of infection that...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Swank LLC purchased a 15,600-square-foot industrial building at 3376 Main St. from Virzi Wyatt Inc. fo...
LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano was charged Friday with criminal threats and conspiracy for his role in alle...
Entertainment & Sports
Theme Parks Don't Want to Play by Federal Rules
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney World may be the "Happiest Place on Earth," but, according to attorneys, activists and lawmakers fig...
June 9 was a night to remember. With all the pomp and glitz of the Academy Awards yet the practicality of eBay in the flesh, P...
There's always room for improvement, if you ask Bruce Friedman. "We have a great corporate group, but we want to make it stron...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Megafirm DLA Piper Attracts Six Winston & Strawn Finance Lawyers
By Amy Spees
A group of finance lawyers from Winston & Strawn are banking on new careers with megafirm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. Lur...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Attorneys Appreciate Mediator's 'Polite Persistence'
By Draeger Martinez
Under other circumstances, Kenneth Gack could have been a world-class diplomat or sales professional. In a decade as a mediato...