In Closing Column - By Gerald F. Phillips - Doctors associated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center give patients a publication ti...
Firm Watch
SEC Chooses Baker Attorney for New Accounting Oversight Board
By Staff Writer
The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Baker & McKenzie's Daniel L. Goelzer to the five-member Public Company A...
Lured by a partnership offer from Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, Kevin Corbett has left the Los Angeles office of Ma...
Firm Watch
Winthrop Couchot Inks Five-Year Lease for Newport Beach Office
By Staff Writer
Winthrop Couchot has signed a five-year lease for 12,500 square feet of office space in Newport Beach to accommodate the firm...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court judges have elected Judge Robert L. Dondero to be the court's next assistant presiding judge. ...
LOS ANGELES - Critics of the Homeland Security Act are celebrating after a Los Angeles federal judge issued a sweeping ban aga...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jeffrey Brill - In Bogese, the Federal Circuit upheld the authority of an adm...
Cutting-edge technology doesn't mean a thing if you don't have the cold, hard cash to support it. So La Jolla biotechnology co...
Entertainment & Sports
Infield Fly Rule Pales Next to Ball Dialectics
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - After hearing a dozen days of evidence, two days of argument and expert opinions from four law professors, th...
SAN FRANCISCO - There has never been anything like it in a bankruptcy court. Trial opens today in the largest utility bankrupt...
Litigation
Defendant Can Utilize Motion for an Undertaking to Enforce Award of Costs
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Brian T. Hafter - Given the difficulty often experienced in enforcing cost awards against out-o...
LOS ANGELES - The waiting is always the hardest part. On Wednesday, members of John Marshall High School's mock-trial teams an...
State Bar & Bar Associations
African-American Was First on State Bar Board
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Edwin J. Wilson, the first black lawyer to practice in Long Beach and the first African-Am...
LOS ANGELES - Agreeing to pay the largest fine ever levied by state regulators against a full-service health plan, Kaiser Foun...
SAN FRANCISCO - Services for John F. Cruikshank Jr., a judge and lawyer who was beloved to both bench and bar throughout the E...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Administrator Quits to Be With Kids
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Jose Guillen, chief executive officer of Riverside County Superior Court for the past 19 months, is quitting his j...
PALO ALTO - California taxpayers won't entirely escape liability for cleaning up any toxic wastes discovered within thousands...
SANTA ANA - Irvine attorney Ruben A. Smith, who helped engineer approval for a Mexican-themed supermarket in Anaheim, has been...
SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the first California appeals to invoke the U.S. Supreme Court's new ban on executing mentally retard...
Charles O'Reilly loves good judges and beautiful women, and not necessarily in that order. He also loves a good fight. Thi...
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The issue of "unpublished" judicial opinions will not go away. A federal rules advisory...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Jewish Defense League President Irv Rubin said Thursday they are considering a lawsuit against the g...
LOS ANGELES - Juvenile court judges must decide visitation orders for biological parents, instead of delegating their authorit...
Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - With the July 2002 bar results soon to be released, many prospective bar passers wi...
Zoning, Planning and Use
New Statutes Show Legislature Has Embraced 'Smart Growth'
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Focus Column - Land Use - A survey of this year's land use bills suggests that the Legislature has jumped on the smart-growth ...
Forum Column - By Fred Woods - It is indeed a singular privilege to be asked to give a written tribute to Presiding Justice Mi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has threatened legal action against a Georgia journalist...
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for David A. Westerfield, the convicted murderer of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, are seeking postponement ...
PASADENA - Services will take place Nov. 30 for Pasadena attorney David C. Haber, one of two lawyers killed Saturday in an aut...
SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison plans more layoffs and partner sacrifices to help it survive into 20...