DVI Business Credit Inc. has won a $20 million judgment in a hotly contested breach-of-contract case between the Newport Beach...
LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn's separation from his wife, Monica Hahn, becomes permanent, the divorce likely w...
Several companies went public in the past few weeks, continuing the revival in the initial public offering market. The latest ...
As The Scene walked into the historic Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, The Scene quickly realized that the $75 admission was a ...
Litigation
Civil Rights Verdict, Anti-Sweatshop Settlement Earn Trial Teams Award
By Karen Coleman
The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation recognized 14 lawyers who led a rare civil rights verdict against the FBI and ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Relentless Hostile Suitor Eyes Betrothed Company
By Toni Vranjes
PeopleSoft Inc. has closed its $1.8 billion acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co., but PeopleSoft's hostile suitor Oracle Corp...
Within the last few weeks, four litigation partners parted ways with the Los Angeles offices of Howrey Simon Arnold & Whit...
Litigation
'Safe Harbor' Shields Actions Taken Under Laws Later Declared Invalid
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Focus Column - Litigation - By David Martinez - The so-called "safe harbor" defense to claims brought under the state's unfair...
Forum Column - By Joshua Spivak - After spending much of its existence in virtual slumber, the recall is emerging as a serious...
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Barry J. Thompson and Kevin G. Lohman - Can mere membership in a trade association or donations t...
LOS ANGELES - Shaw Pittman is parting ways with 12 corporate lawyers who joined the Century City office of the firm in July 20...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge David Garcia, who retired last week, will join JAMS. The private dispute-resolution firm ...
Judges and Judiciary
Years as Educator Taught Jurist Patience on Bench
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Margaret M. Bernal used to call Gerald N. Mansfield "Mr. Mansfield," but that was when he was her high-school he...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Treatment Complicates Release of Sex Predator
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - A drug regimen designed to keep violent sexual behavior in check but which also may be weakening Cary Verse's bones...
Judges and Judiciary
Gadfly Says Public Means Public Even for the Courts
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - He's a newsman's newsman, an irrepressible defender of the First Amendment who has become a stone in the shoe ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the largest legal malpractice awards ever in California, a San Mateo County judge has hit a prominen...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday cleared tobacco giant Philip Morris of negligence and misrepresentati...
Employment Column By Deanna M. Wilkinson It's finally August. Summer programs are in their final stages, and within the next ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Preliminary Relief Is Difficult, But Not Impossible, to Obtain
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Focus Column - Antitrust Law - By Matthew L. Cantor - Consider the following hypothetical: A small business has developed an i...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for M. Peter Katsufrakis, who as a Municipal Court judge turned the Los Angeles s...
SANTA ANA - Labor leaders at the Orange County Employees Association filed suit Wednesday to force court managers including Pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted Nikolai Tehin, the suspended San Francisco attorney, on 13 new counts of bil...
SAN FRANCISCO - A dentist who alerted a police officer's superiors that he suspected the officer was abusing painkillers did ...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the city of San Diego's $1-per-year lease of public parkland to the Boy Scouts...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Bell Internet Services, flooded with hundreds of subpoenas by the record industry and copyright enforc...
International
Unocal Must Defend Slave Suit Under State Law, Judge Rules
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In a case with far-reaching implications for international corporations, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge...
Judges and Judiciary
Family Law Bench Officer Gets Raves From Counsel
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Luis A. Lavin, tears are part of the everyday challenges facing family law ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In another slap at aggressive police tactics, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a warrantless s...
Government
Seven Lawyers Lose Jobs in City Attorney's Office in S.F.
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has laid off seven lawyers, according to documents the office released Thursday....
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency thought that it had some good ideas to re...