The Los Angeles Women's Foundation has found the perfect fund-raising platform: the catwalk. Take champagne, roses and a black...
After swelling from five lawyers to 31 since 2001, Piper Rudnick's Los Angeles office has bigger goals in mind for the coming ...
Focus Column - Franchise Law - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The issue of the ability of a franchisor to obtain damages equivalent ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco meets Houston as an Enron prosecutor with Bay Area ties confronts local criminal defense lawyers...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County Superior Court judge, in a recent dispute between an Oakland man and his broker over investm...
Litigation
Civil Litigator Was Known for His 'Unique Sense of Humor'
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday for Bruce E. Goldberg, a Los Angeles civil litigator. Goldberg died Thursday at ...
LOS ANGELES - After 83-year-old Lucille Jones' home was sold, her attorney, Bruce A. Nahin, deposited $179,913 of the proceeds...
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in 10 years, the central figure in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los...
BREA - Attorney Steven Paul Coleman has been convicted of embezzling $184,000 from the Orange County law firm where he once wo...
SACRAMENTO - A sweet lady, described as a "doll" by a social worker, was 80 years old when her neighbor sold her two deferred ...
LOS ANGELES - Michael L. Benov has been the warden of Los Angeles' federal Metropolitan Detention Center for less than a month...
SAN FRANCISCO - Some court clerks in San Francisco want to stop paying union dues and are calling for an election to change u...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Wiener' Is Ideal Review Case For Duty in Third-Party Attack
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Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In the law as in life, how an issue is characterized often dictates how it ...
Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - Think back to law school. During your first or second summer, you probably had a sum...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento County cell phone service salesman has instigated a class action against Verizon Wireless Servic...
LOS ANGELES - Charles D. Stein, a former general counsel of Carpetland U.S.A., has died. Stein died of Parkinson's disease Apr...
SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union sued a private Orange County agency Thursday, claiming that the organization ba...
LOS ANGELES - A popular home goods retailer may have to stop asking customers for their phone numbers when they pay with credi...
SAN FRANCISCO - George Steffes, a potent figure on the Sacramento political scene for more than 30 years, has merged his lobby...
LOS ANGELES - William Fitzgerald testified Thursday that it would have been inappropriate for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison ...
LOS ANGELES - A small, faded U.S. flag waves in the morning breeze on one of the wooden posts holding up Terry Johnson's ramsh...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area charter high school has sued the public district it left behind, claiming bureaucrats are ill...
RIVERSIDE - By day, Jorge Hernandez races from courtroom to courtroom, representing defendants charged with everything from dr...
LOS ANGELES - President Bush on Thursday nominated five men and one woman to federal judgeships in Southern California. All fi...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Gunther used to clean poop out of cages. Now he helps jurors cut through...
Entertainment & Sports
Copyright Ruling Goes Against Disney in Latest Chapter of Pooh Saga
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A federal judge Thursday torpedoed the Walt Disney Co.'s copyright termination bid in the Winnie the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on the state's capital Thursday with a ruling that threatens...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - You can't pretend that an 800-pound gorilla just isn't there. Whistling doesn't help, an...
LOS ANGELES - In his more than 30 years in law, Richard H. Kirschner has prosecuted white-collar criminals, represented high-s...
Real Estate/Development
Lessees Should Try to Negotiate a Ground Lease That Is 'Financeable'
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael E. Di Geronimo - When a ground lessee does not need financing to construct its initi...