The Legal Marketing Association's annual conference, held this year in Orlando, Fla., is a chance for marketers across the co...
Transactional lawyers in the Silicon Valley may be flashing back to the high-flying years of the late 1990s. Sunnyvale-based t...
Column - Trial Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - During voir dire, attorneys often focus only on selecting jurors who will be m...
Los Angeles partner Ed Feo of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has completed financing deals for two new wind energy projects...
Marc Benezra has joined Beverly Hills' Weissmann, Wolf, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall as a partner. The real estate law...
As competition in the legal community grows increasingly fierce, more lawyers are trying on their sales hats, taking on firm p...
Tamar Feder has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as a partner in the litigation department. Feder joined Manatt Phelps fro...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Dennis McCue - When attorneys decide to practice law together, partnerships are the most com...
Pillsbury Winthrop has added the worldwide reach of international corporate partner Lior Nuchi. Fluent in four languages, Nuch...
A La Jolla attorney who claims the San Diego Padres shortchange employees on overtime pay has filed a Section 17200 suit that ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Combining Consultancies Gives Cooley a Challenge
By Toni Vranjes
Cooley Godward partner Keith Flaum advised consulting firm Tucker Alan Inc. in a $90 million purchase by Navigant Consulting I...
Michael Brill Newman spent his entire career at 10-lawyer Buchman & O'Brien, an alcoholic beverage industry boutique. "It ...
SAN FRANCISCO - It took a rare vote by Chief Justice Ronald George to break a deadlocked Judicial Council and approve Internet...
Los Angeles lawyer Rob Steinberg represented Costa Mesa hair-care firm Advanced Research Laboratories in a $250 million acquis...
In light of the sustained downswing in Japan's economic cycle and the availability for purchase of relatively inexpensive corp...
LOS ANGELES - On a recent Monday, after the last case of his morning small claims and limited jurisdiction civil calendar, Jud...
Intellectual Property
Fish & Richardson Defeats Claim on Wafer Scanners
By Draeger Martinez
San Diego attorneys from patent power Fish & Richardson recently beat an $8.4 million patent infringement claim for client...
Focus Column - Litigation - By William M. Hensley - Imagine the sense of satisfaction. You have just settled a complicated law...
Judges and Judiciary
Contenders for Region's Superior Court Seats Present Their Candidate Statements
By Contributing Writer
Following are statements from candidates for seats on the Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside Superior Courts. ...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Patrick Mattimore - For the next four or five months, Al Delucchi, the judge in the Scott Pet...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's budget crisis is shaping everyone's efforts at the Capitol, and the new Republican governor has fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists, frustrated by what they describe as a lack of action from state regulators to clean up mass...
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser, who faces criminal charges for ti...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley faces a formidable roster of five challengers in his re-election bid Tuesday - in...
RIVERSIDE - The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against three Riverside-area finance companies and f...
Government
Wal-Mart's Critics Promise Court Battle if Ballot Initiative Wins
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - Opponents of Wal-Mart said they will be back in court if voters approve an April 6 ballot initiative allowing th...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Joel Rosenblatt - Joe Grundfest's attempt to set a new standard for inquiries into corporate ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Surgeon Hurt by Police Sees $33 Million Award Dumped
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Friday tossed out a $33 million damage award against the city of Los Angeles and Budget R...
SACRAMENTO - State prison lawyers and those representing inmates argued to stalemate Friday over how to guarantee the autonomy...
SAN BERNARDINO - Security officials at San Bernardino County's Rancho Cucamonga courthouse have begun requiring inmates appear...