SAN FRANCISCO - In October 1950, 15 years before he became staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, William Tay...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Monday dismissed a lawsuit by a self-described "battered husband" who said 10 women's s...
Judges and Judiciary
In Speech to ABA, Hatch Defends Lawmakers Who Oppose 'Activist' Judges
By Don De Benedictis
SALT LAKE CITY - Sen. Orrin Hatch gave judges and members of the American Bar Association what they didn't want Saturday: a br...
SAN JOSE - Memorial services will be held Thursday for Lewis L. Fenton, co-founder of one of the South Bay's oldest law firms,...
Government
Group's Suit Strives to Save Governator From Annoying Funding Restraints
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - If you've ever wanted to see Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rip off a fig leaf and dance naked on a big...
LOS ANGELES - Throw a rock in downtown Los Angeles, and you'll likely hit one of the attorneys or law firms involved in the pa...
LOS ANGELES - After nine years at the helm of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Bruce Iwasaki announced last week that ...
Dermatologists in the small town of Watsonville in Santa Cruz County began seeing dozens of patients with a mysterious skin in...
A $141 million global patent settlement finally has quieted the battleground between computer giants Hewlett-Packard Co. and I...
A Hollywood labor issue left to simmer for years threatens to boil over in Los Angeles Superior Court. A Los Angeles police of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Internationally renowned for her research on memory, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has never shied away from ...
Real Estate/Development
Valentine's Day Heralds Gifts of the Heart Through the Wallet
By Joseph Pimentel
BY JOSEPH PIMENTEL CREJ Contributing Writer With the season of giving over, many shoppers are expecting that dent in their ch...
Since its foundation 232 years ago, the Chabad religious group has grown from a handful of believers into one of the foremost ...
After four years as a "junior member" of the white-collar defense group at McDermott Will & Emery in Century City, Fernand...
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary attorneys are representing Protein Design Labs Inc. in its $500 million acquisition of ESP Pharma ...
Law Practice
Transactional Attorney Switches His Focus From Global to Regional
By Lorelei Laird
As an international corporate transactions attorney, Clark Libenson may think globally, but he made a conscious choice in Janu...
INDUSTRIAL COSTA MESA - BKM Development purchased three industrial buildings totaling 162,084 square feet of space at 3189-319...
IBM Corp. will acquire Corio Inc., a tmarsh provider of software for businesses, in a cash deal worth $182 million. Buying San...
Walking into Bottom of the Hill, a funky nightclub at 17th and Missouri streets in San Francisco, The Scene was pleasantly sur...
Two months into his new tenure as managing partner of the downtown Los Angeles and Century City outposts of Morrison & Foe...
Blockbuster Ups Ante for Video Chain Hollywood Entertainment Video giant Blockbuster Inc. announced early this month that it ...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says it's taking the initiative in cracking down on illegal aliens committing crim...
EXTRA Closer Column - Law Firm Management - By Lin M. Meyer - In a field in which job satisfaction for many is relatively low,...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Baby's Anticipated Arrival Sparks Buzz at Legal Gala
By Tina Spee
Beverly Hills trial attorney Michael Alder created quite a stir at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' 56th Ann...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched re...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - It's not often that an appellate advocate has th...
International
In Legal Wonderland, Defend the Despised to Spite Queen of Hearts
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ronald P. Sokol - The Queen of Hearts had "only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off w...
Forum Column - By Frederick J. Ufkes - On Feb. 3, 2005, the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued its decision in Lockheed Litig...
Litigation
Bar Association Will Redouble Its Efforts to Help Poor People Get Counsel
By Don De Benedictis
SALT LAKE CITY - Responding to budget cuts from the White House and to a new report on criminal defense needs, the American Ba...
SAN FRANCISCO - In October 1950, 15 years before he became staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, William Tay...