Discipline
Bar Court Judge Advises Attorney's Disbarment
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A State Bar Court judge has recommended that a Riverside immigration attorney be disbarred for "frivolously" filin...
WASHINGTON - In a letter made public Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia apologized for the actions of a federal marshal who confis...
LOS ANGELES - Project Islamic HOPE founder Najee Ali was ordered Monday to stand trial in Los Angeles Superior Court for felon...
SACRAMENTO - Proponents of two major legal initiatives, one dealing with tort reform and the other with DNA testing, announced...
LOS ANGELES - An alleged sexual-assault victim of John Gordon Jones settled her lawsuit last week with the attorneys she claim...
LOS ANGELES - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has tapped Ann Marie Tallman to serve as its president a...
Administrative/Regulatory
Schools Choose Civil Rights Pro to Be Counsel
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights lawyer Kevin S. Reed will be appointed general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, ...
Energy Law
Federal Energy-Crisis Indictments Turn Up Heat in Cold Case
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Nearly four years after California danced on the brink of massive energy failures, last week's federa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The situation was depressingly familiar to San Francisco prosecutors: a woman had called police to stop her hu...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Keker has prepared an aggressive defense for the retrial of Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A small San Jose software company announced Monday that it won a $440 million settlement in its bitter three-y...
WASHINGTON - A glance around Beth S. Brinkmann's spacious office provides some clues about why she is among the very elite gro...
McDermott, Will & Emery has nabbed three associates in as many months from the Costa Mesa office of Washington, D.C.-based...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard R. Romero was a second-year law student at Hastings College of the Law ...
Buchanan Ingersoll has added former in-house attorney Nancy Dahl to its San Diego outpost, the Pittsburgh-based firm's only Ca...
Although the two sides disagree about why, a real estate business owned by a Super Bowl quarterback and one of his company's f...
Next month, Gregory Weingart will re-enter private practice at the law firm where he first worked as an attorney. Weingart, wh...
Technology & Science
8th Annual Event Offers Gathering for the E-Minded
By Draeger Martinez
While laws seldom change fast, technology and tools available to lawyers often do. On Thursday and Friday, the Daily Journal C...
Irell & Manella Century City • Benjamin Hattenbach (Boalt Hall, 1996) • Andrei Iancu (University of California, Los Angele...
When the name partners of San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss recruited Barry W. Lee to the firm in 1992, they knew th...
Thanks to a planned $7 million donation by veteran trial attorney Joseph W. Cotchett Jr. and his wife Victoria Cotchett, inner...
Mergers & Acquisitions
BancWest Inks Agreement To Acquire Community First
By Toni Vranjes
Bigger continues to be better in the banking industry. BancWest Corp. has signed a deal to buy Community First Bankshares Inc....
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Selecting Right Provider for ADR Takes Careful Thought
By Contributing Writer
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Nathan R. Scott - Who to choose? When parties include alternative dispute resolut...
Members of the military who are looking for jobs, educational opportunities or benefit information now have a monster to help ...
A few years ago, Billie Lawrence underwent a needle biopsy to determine whether she had a malignant tumor on her lung. The doc...
For Amgen Inc., the world's largest biotechnology firm, owning just part of Tularik Inc. is no longer enough. A year after buy...
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit that approves the first phase of a 5,000-home development in the San Joaquin Valley can ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deal Combines Two Silicon Valley Chipmaking Firms
By Toni Vranjes
In a deal uniting two Silicon Valley chipmakers, Intersil Corp. has agreed to purchase Xicor Inc. for $529 million in cash and...
Column - Marketing - By Timothy P. O'Brien - When someone meets you for the first time, here's the deal, good or bad: Within o...
Although PowerAgent Inc. had demanded $3.5 billion, the company left a recent arbitration against former business partner Elec...