Judges and Judiciary
Veteran San Diego Jurist Puts in His Papers to Become a Lobbyist
By Claude Walbert
Longtime San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lawrence W. Stirling is leaving the bench to become a lobbyist, he announced j...
Energy and environmental law practices are slow these days, but that hasn't prevented Nixon Peabody from building its West Coa...
A disability rights lawsuit against a dentist was a case both sides felt had teeth. The plaintiff, John Taylor, a quadriplegic...
In Closing - Public Relations - By Elizabeth Lampert and Lori Greenspoon - Once a media and marketing industry standard, the p...
Hoping to advance her career, Parquette Hamilton accepted a promotion from bus driver to manager-in-training at the Compton fa...
Telecom equipment company Calix Networks has kept out of the spotlight since its founding, but it suddenly has taken center st...
Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, the ber-bankruptcy boutique with offices in California, New York and Delaware, ha...
There are few states where pharmaceutical giant Pfizer isn't confronting controversy surrounding its subsidiary Parke-Davis, w...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips appointed William T. Quicksilver as its first chief operating officer and deputy managing partne...
A Palm Springs condominium owner's suit against a next-door neighbor for smoking on his patio survived a demurrer last month. ...
Litigation
Software Buyers Want to See Licensing Rules Before Purchase
By Joan Osterwalder
A pastry chef in San Rafael has dished out a class action against computer software makers and retailers. Cathy Baker alleges ...
Intellectual Property
Boutique Sees Opportunities In Closures of Other Firms
By Erik Cummins
A slight rephrasing of the aphorism "One man's loss is another man's gain" seems to apply to Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathi...
Coudert Brothers and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton appear to be going in opposite directions, with the larger Couder...
SACRAMENTO - Some kids are raised on cartoons and frosted flakes. Ellen Corbett was raised on political slogans and envelope ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With a November election looming, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan - not known for a stellar ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The use of "under God" in teacher-led recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance remains banned, but not without ...
SAN FRANCISCO - While courts statewide already are feeling the pinch brought on by California's ongoing budget crisis, a pote...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Dean Weiner - On Jan. 7, President Bush proposed an economic stimulus package. On Jan. 21, the Tre...
SAN FRANCISCO - Martha Whetstone, a former regional head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a leading Democratic ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jurist May Cite Actor's Counsel For Disparaging His Colleague
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A judge Friday indicated he may sanction criminal defense attorney Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. for calling a civil la...
LOS ANGELES - Pepperdine University School of Law Dean Richard Lynn is returning to the classroom after six years as dean and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Big paydays should always be so easy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali took less than 10 minutes Friday to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland Deputy City Attorney Claudia Leed, who headed the massive police misconduct suit recently settled by t...
OAKLAND - After six months of testimony from police, victims and experts on behalf of the prosecution, lawyers for the three ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Juvenile Court referee turned down requests Friday made by two newspapers seeking access to infor...
LOS ANGELES - Erin Brockovich charged Friday that the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. improperly influenced a key scientific s...
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-based Howrey Simon Arnold & White has hired Jay S. Handlin, former executive counsel to th...
Administrative/Regulatory
Alcohol Warning Isn't Necessary, Court Says
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Twenty-three makers of liquid herbal extracts and supplements do not have to warn consumers that their products...
LOS ANGELES - If fitness star Billy Blanks wanted to sue his talent manager for violating the state Talent Agencies Act, he fi...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's defense attorney contends the investigation into the murder charges against his client has been ...