LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled unconstitutional a portion of the USA Patriot Act that bars giving expe...
SANTA ANA - Stepping up his campaign to shelter the courts from fiscal attacks, State Sen. Joseph Dunn said Monday he will hol...
Entertainment & Sports
Flames of 56-Day Deposition From Hell Produce Invoice From Hell
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The deposition from hell is over, but the flames still burn hot, hot, hot. Yes, I finally can report ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have removed Deputy Attorney General John W. Riches from a class action aimed at improv...
Energy law attorney Leslie Lo Baugh has joined Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro as p...
Column - By Scott E. Wendelin - As usual, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that equity capital markets are po...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Two 'Last Mile' Technology Companies Plan to Merge
By Toni Vranjes
Aided by Pillsbury Winthrop, Petaluma-based Advanced Fibre Communications Inc. has signed a $240 million deal to buy a unit of...
The money continues to flow into drug company Novacea Inc., and Silicon Valley lawyer Alan Mendelson couldn't be happier. Nova...
Loeb & Loeb has strengthened its corporate and securities practice with the acquisition of Beverly Hills' Richman, Mann, C...
San Jose company Redback Networks Inc., which recently emerged from bankruptcy, has closed a deal to receive $30 million in eq...
Bill Handel provides half-baked legal advice to hundreds of thousands of people every Saturday morning, and he could hardly be...
SANTA ANA - Fellow prosecutors call him an outstanding lawyer, perhaps the brightest and most driven U.S. attorney to come out...
To the victor go the spoils. A victorious plaintiff wins money to compensate for past wrongs and the vindication of battling a...
A provision in a recent settlement of a slip-and-fall case violates State Bar rules because it prohibits the plaintiff's attor...
Litigation
Attorney-Client Fee Conflicts Seem Likely to Rise in July
By Contributing Writer
Column - Law Practice - By Gerald G. Knapton - Over the last few years, state appellate courts have indicated that attorney fe...
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired Thomas Zaccaro from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served as he...
The imminent acquisition of New York-based advertising law boutique Hall Dickler by Reed Smith Crosby Heafey will move Reed Sm...
Commercial attorney Troy Zander is the newest partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, leaving Gray Cary Ware &...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Abbott Labs Buys TheraSense in $1.3 Billion Deal
By Toni Vranjes
Health care company Abbott Laboratories Inc. is buying Alameda-based medical device firm TheraSense Inc., which makes a blood ...
LOS ANGELES - Anthony Pellicano's attorney said he will file an appeal to try to knock out one of the firearms counts that led...
Steve Snyder spent 10 years resolving a messy insurance coverage dispute between Oakland's MacArthur Company and The Hartford ...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Last year's legislative session inaugurated more than 900 new laws. In th...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health Care Industry Must Set Pricing Based on Costs
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Charles Bond - While Congress should have passed a Medicare drug benefit bill, no politician - or for that m...
Labor/Employment
Employers Eagerly Await Two State High Court Wage-and-Hour Rulings
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Christina J. Imre and Jacqueline M. Jauregui - As many multistate employers are learning, C...
Forum Column - By Dilan Esper - I have seen few opinion pieces more wrongheaded than John Eastman's article titled "The U.S. C...
WASHINGTON - A leading liberal group on Friday charged that a number of President Bush's judicial nominees who now sit on the ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - For a tenant facing eviction, budget cuts in the court system represent a horror story waiting t...
Judges and Judiciary
Critics Want to Send Scalia On Vacation in Recusal City
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - For Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, this has been a term in which that nasty word "recusal" keeps cropping ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sisterhood was in full bloom when San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and acting police Chief Heathe...
LOS ANGELES - What if they opened the courts and no one came? In effect, that's what happened when Minnesota's new chief justi...