By Toni Vranjes Microsoft Corp. shocked the business world earlier this month when it announced plans to stop issuing stock o...
By Erik Cummins For years, Nancy Geenen wanted to get more involved in law-firm management. That's why Geenen took two years ...
By Liz Valsamis Environmental litigation lawyer Kathleen Kenealy has become a deputy attorney general in the natural resource...
By Liz Valsamis Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps bankruptcy partners Christopher Celentino, Mikel R. Bistrow and Katheri...
By Toni Vranjes In a bid to expand its presence in the information-storage business, EMC Corp. will acquire Legato Systems In...
By Stefanie Knapp The Association of Trial Lawyers of America received what it views as great news just in time for its annua...
By Liz Valsamis Pittsburgh's Kirkpatrick & Lockhart has lured Richard Crane and Dennis Ehling from Los Angeles' Musick, P...
By Stefanie Knapp Mary Alexander finally can take a deep breath. After spending the last year fighting the medical malpractic...
By John Ryan Law firms boosted their profits in 2002 but are becoming more cautious about increasing their size through merge...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Nelva Hernandez makes $7.10 an hour folding towels at a Bay Area cleaning facility owned by laundry giant ...
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...