Criminal
Riverside DA Investigator. Five Others Found Shot to Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - An investigator for the Riverside County district attorney's office was found dead of a gunshot wound Tuesday whil...
WASHINGTON - As the Senate inches closer to a possible "nuclear" showdown over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, it...
MULTIFAMILY LOS ANGELES - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged a $36 million construction loan for Villa Verona, a 234-unit ap...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles police officer Rafael Perez, whose confessions of lying and abuse exposed corruption within ...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In a blow to romantically inclined, gene...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - Solo-flying Eagle Don Henley scored a hit single in 1983 with "Dirty Laundry." The song raked...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael McCabe has lured three of his former partners from Preston Gates to Reed Smith's San Francisco office...
SAN DIEGO - Reversing its earlier ruling, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a state law requiring towing companie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Patricia Gillette booked $6 million in business last year. She's the co-chairwoman of Heller Ehrman's labor a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Silicon Valley boutique Ritchey Fisher Whitman & Klein has struck a deal to join Dorsey & Wh...
Administrative/Regulatory
Finally, a Name-Dropping Trial That Doesn't Involve Jackson or Blake
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - What could be both the biggest New York and the most gigantic national political trial of the year ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy announced a reshuffling of management responsibilities Monday i...
LOS ANGELES - The mother of a 13-year-old suspected car thief shot and killed in February by a Los Angeles police officer will...
Staff at the Transgender Law Center have made it their mission to speak for those who don't have a voice. Their advocacy will ...
EXTRA Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Timing and the question of who goes first are important aspects of negotiating the com...
Criminal
Lawyer Leads Successful Mayoral Recall Effort
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - Lawyer Edward J. Faunce has taken his courtroom-honed skills of persuasion into the political arena - and won. The...
A three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected the defense of qualified immunity for Placer C...
Steel manufacturer Earle M. Jorgensen Company's initial public offering fell on the market's worst day since the 2004 presiden...
INDUSTRIAL ESCONDIDO - California Cooling Supply Co. Inc. signed a five-year, $880,338 lease for 20,000 square feet of indust...
When Los Angeles attorney Sandy Passman cross-examined an officer during a police misconduct trial last month, the courtroom a...
NBA player Samaki Walker of the Washington Wizards has sued his ex-manager Carl Williams, claiming that he embezzled millions ...
When bankruptcy litigator Beth Young moved April 11 from Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro to bankruptcy boutique Levene, ...
Semiconductor distributor Avnet Inc. plans to acquire rival Memec Group Holdings LTD in a stock and cash transaction valued at...
Talk about a mixer. For Orange County lawyers and judges, the Anti-Defamation League's annual Jurisprudence Awards dinner to h...
In a rare occurrence in cases against the government, attorney Michael Quinn was recently awarded litigation fees from the Sec...
Intellectual Property
'City of Heroes' Lawsuit Becomes Lunchtime Fodder
By Draeger Martinez
The superpowered dispute between Marvel Enterprises and two software game companies took center stage recently before the Beve...
John Peterson, global chairman of Baker & McKenzie's tax practice group, says he would have hired Beth Williams sooner, bu...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Shows Straight 'Hands-On, No-Nonsense' Style
By Lorelei Laird
Layn R. Phillips wears a loud, gambling-themed tie to every mediation he conducts. That's not because Phillips is a gambler hi...
The city of Los Angeles and leading Internet travel companies have leveled heady charges against each other in a recent legal ...
Lawyers at Public Counsel, Los Angeles' largest public interest law center, are experts in helping their clients leap legal hu...