Forum Column - By Lee A. Wood - When did the rights of litigants become less important than courtroom calendars and the court'...
Forum Column - By James Acret - On the last day of its 2002 session, the Legislature passed SB800 at the urging of a coalition...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court employees have set a strike date of Monday after their union broke off mediated ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David W. Perkins' condition was upgraded from fair to good Monday, follo...
SACRAMENTO - State officials announced an agreement Monday to drop two lawsuits against Williams Energy for alleged price gou...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Rose gives some guidance on what ...
Litigation
Davis Puts Pair of Civil Litigators On Los Angeles Trial Court Bench
By Leslie Simmons
Two civil litigators, John A. Kronstadt and Rafael Ongkeko, were appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench by Gov. Gra...
Intellectual property specialist William J. Robinson has left Chicago-based Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw to head the West Coas...
Alameda County Superior Court staffers got to check one another's work during an October celebration of National Customer Serv...
Litigation
RAND Institute for Civil Justice Elevates Executive to Director
By Staff Writer
The RAND Institute for Civil Justice promoted Robert Reville to director of the institute Oct. 22. The institute is an indepe...
Litigation
Bar Group Honors Federal Jurist With Judge of the Year Award
By Staff Writer
The Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County honored U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. with its annual Be...
Litigation
Legal Nurse Consulting Field Expands Rapidly Nationwide
By Christina Landers
Many litigators have hired doctors to testify in medical malpractice, product liability, workers' compensation and other lawsu...
In Closing Column - By Stephen Greene and Joshua Henderson - California recognizes an exception to the rule of employment at w...
The eighth floor of the Figueroa Plaza in downtown Los Angeles still has the fresh-paint and new-carpet smell to it. Cardboard...
Firm Watch
Manatt Jones Taps Ex-President of Costa Rica to Chair Advisory Group
By Staff Writer
The consulting branch of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips - Manatt Jones Global Strategies - appointed former Costa Rica Presiden...
With the 2002 World Series over and Angel fever still running rampant throughout Southern California, it's time for some North...
Litigation
Name Partner at Casey Gerry Receives Kroll Leadership Award
By Staff Writer
The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, honored Frederick Schenk with the David K. Kroll Leadershi...
Sources in the legal industry say that the layoffs at Washington, D.C.'s Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld were probably the ...
Firm Watch
Five Litigators, One Real Estate Lawyer Move Up at Farella Braun
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Farella Braun + Martel has elevated five litigators and one real estate attorney to the partnership, effectiv...
In response to client demand, Chicago's Hinshaw & Culbertson opened a Los Angeles office Oct. 1. The office was establishe...
Attorneys for auto repair shops say their clients are victims of a "legal shakedown" by a Beverly Hills law firm that sues the...
Los Angeles lawyer Molly Munger has received a Bringing Up Daughters Differently, or BUDDY, award from the National Organizati...
Firm Watch
O'Melveny Expands Presence in Japan by Starting Joint Enterprise
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers has expanded its Japanese presence by establishing a new joint enterprise with Watanab...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop Elevates Six California Associates to Partner
By Staff Writer
Starting Jan. 1, six California associates, as well as four others, at Pillsbury Winthrop will assume partner status, thanks ...
Respect the little guy. That's the message that attorneys for a dozen independent Shell gas station operators hope to send to ...
Brazilian company Prosisa Overseas has purchased MySmart.com Inc. of Los Angeles, a developer of technology that allows comput...
TRS Staffing Solutions of Aliso Viejo has sold its information-technology staffing division. TRS is a subsidiary of Fortune 50...
Palo Alto's Cooley Godward continues a trend of streamlining its operations, perhaps with an eye toward a merger with a partne...
Litigation
Law Center for Disability Rights Holds Gala Dinner Tuesday Night
By Staff Writer
The Western Law Center for Disability Rights will honor Anna Masters, a partner at Winston & Strawn; Jerry White of Landm...
Major setbacks with pretrial motions have prompted an appeal by a New York developer seeking billions of dollars from insurers...