LOS ANGELES - A former contract writer for the New York Post may pursue her $10 million lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co., ...
Government
City Attorney Is Disqualified in Fraud Case for Conflict
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday disqualified the city attorney's office from a lawsuit accusing a former buildi...
SACRAMENTO - The state Capitol was abuzz Monday with speculation about whether the Assembly would approve a budget compromise ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In new legal challenges to the Oct. 7 recall election, two prominent appellate specialists Monday filed petit...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawmakers Haggle Over Diminishing Court Budget
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers worked over the weekend on a budget that would allow courts to stay open for the public, though furthe...
By Toni Vranjes Kavado Inc., a New York-based firm whose founders received technology training from the Israeli military, has...
Litigation
Lawyers: Choose a Medical Specialist Jurors Would Use
By Contributing Writer
Column Expert Witnesses By David Feinberg A medical expert witness can be hard to choose. Ideally, when your case is over, yo...
By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in New York threw out a securities-fraud case earlier this month, asserting that the plai...
By John Ryan California law offices continue to benefit from the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden. Citing costly at...
By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in San Francisco gave final approval last month to an $8.6 million settlement in a class ...
Column Law Firm Marketing By Felice Wagner and Elizabeth Lampert Throughout the profession, in almost all legal industry publ...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Telecommunications giant MCI WorldCom didn't want to hear the bad news, according to a lawsuit filed last ...
By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis suffered a crisis of confidence earlier this year when a group of partner...
By Erik Cummins Over the course of his career, Joseph Petrillo has handled the enormous task of helping create legislative gu...
By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison has endured some prominent defections this year, but that's not the reason Robert Gebhardt ...
By Toni Vranjes WorldCom Inc. filed the largest bankruptcy case in the nation's history in July 2002. A year later, the case ...
By Erik Cummins For two guys who began their careers in an employment law boutique, moving to a general-practice firm was "li...
By Toni Vranjes Internet portal Yahoo Inc. is strengthening its position in the highly competitive world of Internet advertis...
By Erik Cummins Charles Donovan left Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis earlier this month for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &am...
By Tina Spee Vincent J. Bartolotta Jr. has been recognized on numerous occasions for the monumental verdicts he has won at tr...
Litigation
Homeowner Battles for Right to Fly Old Glory
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LA QUINTA - Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Richard Birdsall hoisted an A...
By Toni Vranjes British company Autonomy Corp. has agreed to buy struggling software firm Virage Inc. for $25 million in cash...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Environmentalists warn that the state's use of insecticides to kill a pest that spreads the grapevine-kill...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - A bedrock concept in Fourth Amendment law is that, before the police can ...
Forum Column - By John Burton - The Washington, D.C. Circuit's decision in Center for National Security Studies v. United S...
LOS ANGELES - Feuding legal titans Browne Greene and Charles O'Reilly met in court Friday for a hearing on forcing arbitratio...
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, but they may not count. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central Distr...
SAN JOSE - The judge poised to release the first child molester to complete the treatment program outlined in California's Se...
LOS ANGELES - The decades-long battle over cleanup of a Carson landfill long considered a prime spot for a National Football ...
Technology & Science
Looking to Build Nanotech, Burns Doane Makes a Hire
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has recruited nanotechnology legal pioneer Kitu Bindra to join the firm's 15...