Forum Column By Clay S. Conrad Senator Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., is a graduate of Georgetown Law School and has held elected...
Forum Column By Kimberly West-Faulcon The chairman of the University of California board of regents, John J. Moores, recently...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Decision Provides Defense for Attorneys Sued by Bankrupts
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Focus Column Legal Malpractice By Alec H. Boyd Legal-malpractice defense counsel should take note of a recent 2nd District Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two former employees of the San Francisco Examiner who worked on the paper's finances are litigating claims o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Asserting that court administrators provide "vital input" to the state Judicial Council, Chief Justice Ronald...
Government
Senate May Act Today to Block California Financial-Privacy Law
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate today is likely to begin consideration of a popular financial credit-reporting bill that would overri...
LOS ANGELES - As the great Southern California wildfires of 2003 die out, law enforcement officials are focusing on arson as ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a federal law bars a health maintenance organization pati...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined once again to take on the highly contentious issue of displaying the Ten Co...
LOS ANGELES - Once a year, criminal defense lawyer Peter Knecht throws a bash in Malibu to celebrate the failure of a client ...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and judges who participated in a 10-day effort to settle hundreds of lawsuits crowding the judicial cal...
Law Practice
Dodging Bullets Outside Courthouse: Newest Episode in L.A. Law
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams As if we needed it, last week was a pointed reminder from the fickle finger of fate that there's somet...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four new prosecutors will be added to the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California to bolster the prosec...
SAN FRANCISCO - For a lawyer who has scrutinized the largest case of fraud in U.S. history, Dick Thornburgh remains surprisin...
LARKSPUR - Michael Gottleib and Terry Andrews purchased 4,000 square feet of retail space at 549 Magnolia Ave. from Marin Cou...
By Liz Valsamis Four months after the speculation over its future began, the fate of Los Angeles litigation boutique O'Neill ...
By Tina Spee The Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California celebrated its 20th anniversary Oct. 16 with its ...
By Erik Cummins The workers picketing outside Southern California grocery stores may be a familiar sight to attorney David Fa...
Column Focus: Corporate Law By Eddie Wang Rodriguez Helping establish a young company can be a tremendously rewarding experie...
By Liz Valsamis Greenberg Traurig has lured Paul Glassman from his Century City bankruptcy boutique Peitzman, Glassman, Weg &...
Column Focus: Corporate Law By Tim C. Bruinsma Europe in many ways truly has coalesced into a "union." Most of the primary co...
By Gonzalo Solano Associated Press Writer LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador - A Spanish scientist working with plaintiffs in a lawsuit accu...
By Erik Cummins Maria Blanco, the national senior counsel for the Mexican American Legal and Educational Fund, will replace E...
By Stefanie Knapp Thanks to a Los Angeles Superior Court ruling, a Pasadena neighborhood will have to tolerate large utility ...
By Stefanie Knapp Arbitrators awarded Children's Hospital of Los Angeles $3.6 million last month in its breach of contract cl...
By Stefanie Knapp California's A-list lawyers battled serious Los Angeles traffic to gather in celebration of the Daily Journ...
By Liz Valsamis Jerome Coben pulled together the 50 members of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's corporate department...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Contestants on the television game show "Wheel of Fortune" are expected to express enthusiasm. But watch o...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda A nasty divorce battle in family court is turning even more bitter with a subsequent civil action. The dis...
Column Media Relations By Richard S. Levick Law firms historically have resisted any proactive relationship with the media. T...