By Toni Vranjes Real estate investment trust Mills Corp. has purchased the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, the fourth-lar...
CORPORATE By Jeffrey Krasner The Boston Globe Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin charged financial services g...
By Joel Rosenblatt Michael C. Phillips rejoined Morrison & Foerster's 200-lawyer corporate group July 2 as a senior partn...
Litigation
How to Ensure E-Evidence Will Be Admissible in Court
By Contributing Writer
Adviser Column Legal Technology By Anton Litchfield More often than not, evidence that might have been typed on a computer ex...
Litigation
Judge Sides With Magazine in Clash Over Entrepreneur Name
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder Anyone can be an entrepreneur, but, according to a court ruling, not everyone can use the word. A federal...
Firm Watch
Gray Cary Focuses on Growth Gray Cary Hires Tax Specialist
By Joel Rosenblatt
By Joel Rosenblatt Sang Kim joined Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich's Palo Alto office from KPMG's international corporate se...
By John Ryan Boston's Bingham McCutchen continues to expand in Southern California with the acquisition of two partners for i...
Forum Column By James E. Herman California's great legal heritage faces the perfect storm. As middle- and low-income Californ...
Intellectual Property
'Neo-Flo' Court Blurs Law to Allow Infringement Discovery
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Henry C. Su - In May, a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ord...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Juvenile Court bench officer on Friday ordered family reunification services to continue for Juli...
LOS ANGELES - Gay and lesbian activists turned out Friday outside the downtown Los Angeles immigration court in support of Ma...
Judges and Judiciary
Reporter's Notebook: Honor for Jurists Slain in the Troubles
By Erik Cummins
Reporter's Notebook By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Martin Blake vividly remembers the 10 days he spent in the early 1970s as...
LOS ANGELES - Catholic Clergy Cases I & II are back where they were on Jan. .1 - in mediation before Los Angeles Superior ...
Appellate Practice
Supreme Court Will Step Up With Bases Loaded Next Term
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - All right, baseball fans, it's time to take a sneak peek at next season and a couple of looks back. I'm sure man...
PLACERVILLE - For a man who wears a Mickey Mouse watch under the sleeve of his judicial robe, El Dorado County Superior Court...
Administrative/Regulatory
Bar, Bench Admire Judge Hearing Priest-Abuse Cases
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - No hot lights or sound bites for Marvin Lager. In due time, the discreet and highly regarded Los Angeles trial j...
Forum Column - By Dennis W. Archer - Lawyers have a special responsibility to ensure that our profession encourages people of ...
Environmental
Coastal Commission Can Issue Findings After Decision Is Made
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Cecily T. Talbert - In the recent case of Sierra Club v. Cal...
Forum Column - By David B. Cruz - The U.S. Supreme Court's end-of-term decision in Lawrence v. Texas , 2003 DJDAR 7036 ...
Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Many a human-resource professional has scratched his or her head and wondered whether th...
SANTA ANA - Dozens of Orange County union members staged a mock funeral at the Central Justice Center on Thursday, burying a w...
LOS ANGELES - Without Dean C. Dunlavey, videotaping copyright movies and programs on television may not have become legal back...
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena lawyer with a history of troubles with his family and colleagues pleaded not guilty Thursday to charg...
SUNNYVALE - Anti-war protesters who staged a peaceful protest in front of a Lockheed Martin manufacturing facility are furious...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said Thursday that a proposal to relax stringent fast-track court rules won't...
SAN FRANCISCO - When litigators descend on San Francisco this weekend for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America conventi...
SACRAMENTO - Prosecutors seeking to charge juveniles as adults with murder or rape under Proposition 21 can initiate prosecuti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Janice Rogers Brown was a bold choice when Gov. Pete Wilson tapped her for a seat on the California Supreme Co...
Environmental
Circuit Rules Against EPA's Denial Of Gas Waiver to State
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal officials must reconsider their order that California use expensive ethanol as a gasoline additive in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The national plaintiffs bar convenes Saturday in San Francisco as it counterattacks the Bush administration ov...