Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Two years ago, Catholic Healthcare West signed a $600 million agreement to outsource its informa...
Column - Business Development - By Robert A. Potter - When firms lose a request for proposal, they usually blame it on their b...
Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory is 20 miles closer to its software and real estate companies in North Cou...
Nancy Sasaki, the former president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, has been named executive ...
The jury is still out two months after the Judicial Council launched a Spanish version of the California Courts Self-Help Cent...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Preparation by Mediator, Lawyers Boosts Success
By Contributing Writer
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Kanon Alpert - For a mediation to succeed, the mediator and other principals ...
A gas-station operator in San Pedro won a victory earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that Chevron improperly termin...
The relatives of a mother and daughter murdered during a 1999 sightseeing trip in Yosemite reached a $1 million settlement in ...
Fresh out of Glendale College of the Law, Albert H. MacKenzie went to work in the district attorney's office because he wanted...
An appellate court in August expressed "misgivings" about the way a Santa Rosa attorney tried to mediate a dispute while at th...
The Scene felt like a movie star strolling down Hollywood Boulevard to take a turn on the red carpet that led into the histori...
The news that Keith Wetmore was re-elected chairman of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster was a bit anticlimactic, Wetmor...
The last former Klein & Martin lawyer to leave Shaw Pittman's Los Angeles office has found a new firm. Charles Fiedler joi...
Customers who use credit cards at Sam Goody stores may want to read the fine print. A Laguna Hills woman claims that when she ...
When Detroit's Feeney Kellett Wienner & Bush closed its doors this summer, crosstown firm Dykema Gossett took advantage of...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - As members of the legal profession wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to res...
Environmental
Bill Would Conform State Law to Changes to Superfund Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David A. Ossentjuk - The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization ...
Government
9th Circuit Should Have Considered Remedies Besides Postponement
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marc Levin - By postponing the recall election in Southwest Voter Registration Education Project v. Shell...
These are the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal judges who will sit on the en banc panel hearing the California recall case: Ma...
SANTA BARBARA - Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall probably will resume her job as a jurist even after her conviction on misde...
Law Practice
Counsel Says Giants Richer, But Ain't No Damn Yankees
By Tyler Cunningham
Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - Most baseball fans outside the five boroughs hate the New York Yankees. The team i...
Appellate Practice
Experts Dispute Reputation Of Appeals Court as Liberal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is commonly perceived as a renegade, left-leaning federal appeals court, r...
SAN FRANCISCO - The pro-recall advocates have drawn some of the most philosophically conservative judges on the 9th U.S. Circu...
LOS ANGELES - When an 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sits down after today's hearing to consider wha...
SAN JOSE - When he isn't flying off to a conference or lobbying in Sacramento to secure funding for drug and mental-health-tre...
Outsourcing may seem like a tantalizing prospect, but it's not for everyone. So what's the best way for a company to determine...
LOS ANGELES - The role of an O'Melveny & Myers attorney in the legal imbroglio over halting the state recall is drawing fi...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Open-Space Measure Doesn't Violate Constitution, State Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - The 1st District Court of Appeal recently upheld an open-space initiative ...
Labor/Employment
Ignoring Complex Time Rules May Lead to Labor Violations
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Wage-and-hour laws can significantly affect firm culture. Some recent developments in th...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - "Lack of comprehension is perhaps the greatest single barrier to justice. A failure to ...