Forum Column - By Jennifer Van Bergen - What is today's news? Haiti? Guantnamo? Iraq? Bin Laden? The primaries? Martha Stewart...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Establishes New Qualified-Immunity Standard
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - In its recent decision in Cox v. Roskelley, 2004 DJDAR 2227 (9th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Cowan, a former managing partner of O'Melveny & Myers' San Francisco office and a renowned real es...
LOS ANGELES - In a downtown Los Angeles courtroom last week, a 28-year-old 18th Street gang member was sentenced to a life pri...
SACRAMENTO - In an unusual move Monday, the Fair Political Practices Commission rejected a $16,000 fine recommended by an admi...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's co-defendant pleaded no contest Monday to felony conspira...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental rules and regulations have been on the books in the People's Republic of China for more than 20 ...
LOS ANGELES - Major League Baseball teams and Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig shared a victory Monday when U.S. District Judge...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel Monday had harsh words and big sanctions for San Francisco lawyer Arlo Hale Smith, w...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Touts Education to Help Defendants Improve
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The young man stood shackled before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John Vernon Meigs, struggling to explain wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - The four-year investigation of alleged corruption involving former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko come...
New York's Shearman & Sterling opened its San Francisco office in 1979, making it one of the first nonindigenous firms to ...
The post-production house for actor Mel Gibson's hit film, "The Passion of the Christ," has come into a world of legal trouble...
Miami-based Greenberg Traurig expanded its reach in the state in February, opening offices in Orange County and the Silicon Va...
In the television series "Black Scorpion," billed as "Batman" meets "Baywatch," Michelle Lintel played the main character, "a ...
As any aspiring star or starlet will tell you, it isn't easy breaking into Hollywood. But one firm, Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman,...
Morrison & Foerster's Irvine office is without a project finance and development group after its only two members left to ...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Karen Kaplowitz - Give up random acts of charity. Stop buying tables at charity events that ...
Electronic design automation company Synopsys Inc. has agreed to buy Monolithic System Technology Inc. for $432 million in cas...
Steve Daniels was one of the many litigators who left Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison with intellectual property partner James...
A Santa Ana federal jury handed $1.9 million recently to a widow who says her business partner cut her out of their music-publ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Credence OKs $660 Million To Acquire IPO-Rich NPTest
By Toni Vranjes
It's been a busy year for San Jose technology company NPTest Holding Corp. NPTest, a former unit of oil field services company...
After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, music and video retailer Tower Records is hoping its trip through court wil...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Bartering Lets Cash-Poor Clients Pay Their Lawyers
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - A custom suit. Massage therapy. Free drinks. Teeth cleanings. Bags of cash. These are just a few of the ways Sou...
Column - Employment Law - By Steven M. Schneider - California firms generally go about their daily business of practicing law ...
Immigration lawyers crammed last month to get H1B visa petitions, reserved for highly skilled professionals in a variety of fi...
With Donna Melby's installation ceremony dubbed the Presidents' Dinner Dance, attendees at the Los Angeles Chapter of the Amer...
Ralph Alldredge didn't follow his partners at Legal Strategies Group to Townsend and Townsend and Crew, which absorbed most of...
Law Practice
Lawyers, Activists Combine Oscar Viewing, Fund-Raising
By Jordan Elgrably
While ostensibly a billion people sat glued to the Oscars on leap-year Sunday - either loving or hating Hollywood's glamour an...
SAN FRANCISCO - If San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wins the authority to interpret the Constitution as he sees fit, what next...