With the help of several local law firms, Public Counsel held its first "Run for Justice" this month as an official charity of...
Eugene Iredale says he won this year's Silver Tongue competition the same way he wins lawsuits: by going in unrehearsed. The c...
Real Estate/Development
Racetrack Owner Noses Out Mall for Ownership of Parcel
By Amy Spees
Frank Stonach, the owner of the Santa Anita Racetrack, has finally got his hands on a 2.36-acre strip of land he says he paid ...
When supermodel Tyra Banks was 11 years old, she says, her body went through a terrifying transformation. She grew four inches...
Shortly after joining the firm, Ed Woodsome has become the head of litigation at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Woodsome,...
Real estate investment trust LTC Properties Inc. raised $100 million last month by selling its stock in a registered direct pl...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Ask Jeeves Grows Through Purchase of Search Engine
By Toni Vranjes
Ask Jeeves Inc. is grabbing a bigger chunk of the Internet search market. The Emeryville-based Internet search engine has agre...
Partner Michael T. Frank left Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Menlo Park on March 8 to join Gray Cary Ware & Freiden...
Wrapping up a 12-year career in the public sector, environmental attorney Shirley R. Edwards joined the San Diego office of Go...
Entertainment & Sports
NBC Countersues Sitcom Creators Over Revenues
By Draeger Martinez
NBC Studios this month made what one Hollywood expert calls an unusual move: It fired back at the creators of hit sitcom "Will...
Patricia Mayer has joined Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp as a partner in the firm's entertainment and new media practice grou...
After three years at Foley & Lardner, corporate attorney Lance Kimmel has left the 1,000-lawyer firm to start his own priv...
Judges and Judiciary
L.A. Superior Court Judge Retires To Do Private Judging, Mediation
By Sarah Garveyn
After 10 years on the bench, Judge Lawrence W. Crispo is retiring from the Los Angeles Superior Court, effective April 5. Cris...
Labor/Employment
Jury Awards $5.3 Million to Ex-Supervisor in Bias Case
By Draeger Martinez
The allegations of hazing and misconduct that crisscrossed the courtroom sounded too outrageous to be real: Employees squeezin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tension ran high during an early hearing in San Francisco's same-sex marriage litigation. Before a packed cour...
Column - Trial Strategy - By Steven S. Kaufhold - Taking a deposition provides a key opportunity to establish factual support ...
Foley & Lardner can thank a client conflict at Morrison & Foerster for the availability of a top partner and three oth...
Magic stone, check. Mental image of cascading waterfall, check. Oh, and remember to take a "meaningful pause." The aforementio...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Emergency Techs Aren't Liable in Death
By Eron Yehuda
Two emergency medical technicians are not liable for letting a woman they suspected was mentally ill leave their ambulance, ev...
Maxitile Inc., a distributor of roofing and siding products, has ended its two-year journey through Bankruptcy Court. The Cars...
Cytyc Corp. is expanding its women's health care product line by acquiring Palo Alto-based Novacept Inc. for $325 million. Cyt...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Apprendi v. New Jersey, ...
Focus Column - Business Law - By Marc Rappel - Many commercial contracts contain a choice-of-law provision stating that the pa...
Commercial Law
Ill-Conceived Arbitration Legislation Has Unintended Effects
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William G. Mitchell - When well-intentioned legislators enact legislation without examining the full extent ...
Forum Column - By Jill Kent - A habeas corpus evidentiary hearing in the case of John Stoll is proving that Kern County offici...
Appellate Practice
Jurors' Trip Into the Woods Sparks Defender's Outrage
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - If a judge takes jurors into the forest and there's no defense lawyer around to watc...
SAN JOSE - A magistrate judge said he is inclined to grant a mistrial in a closely watched lawsuit by six current and former S...
Law Practice
Lockyer Likely Will Promote Litigator to Newly Created Post
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer is expected to name veteran civil litigator Herschel Elkins today to the new...
SAN FRANCISCO - Starting immediately, San Francisco's Civic Center courthouse will see more criminal trials. Presiding Judge D...
SAN JOSE - Frustrated by a lengthy impasse over the salary increase in their current contract, Santa Clara County government l...