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...
Product Liability
Rollover Suit May Become First in State to Go to Jury
By Eron Yehuda
For the first time in California, a jury may decide an automobile rollover case in which a Ford Explorer and a Bridgestone/Fir...
Government
Nursing Home Tort Reform is Goal of Chains' Organization
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A group representing nursing home chains may embark on an $8 million, two-year effort to draft legislation and wi...
After wading through a host of legal challenges, bankrupt retailer Kmart Corp. has received approval to sell its Bluelight.com...
Actor and Republican activist Arnold Schwarzenegger will join Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn and other leaders on a business mis...
SAN FRANCISCO - Internal investigators for the state Department of Corrections spent years putting together criminal cases aga...
A $12.5 billion debt offering has closed, giving the state of California an infusion of money to pay its bills. The first phas...
Environmental
Counsel Must Advise Potential Buyers About New CERCLA Liability Defenses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Catherine W. Johnson - New CERCLA amendments provide potential purchasers with two new d...
LOS ANGELES - Eleanor Hunter and Michael Latin were 400 miles away when four former Symbionese Liberation Army soldiers pleade...
LOS ANGELES - Defense counsel Jane Renahan jumped out of her seat as the prosecutor asked its star witness, Cody Ward, to desc...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Friday reduced the felony grand theft conviction of former Deputy District Attorney Pete...
Criminal
Lawyer Plans to Challenge Judge in Second Death-Penalty Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A defense attorney in a capital murder case says he plans to challenge a trial judge's decision allowing the same ...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The new "Brownfield" amendments don't clarify CERCLA. Instead, they ma...
OAKLAND - The Women Lawyers of Alameda County has launched a fund-raising campaign to convert a snack vending area in the Hayw...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge, War Hero Credits Military for Turning His Life Around
By Anne La Jeunesse
FULLERTON - For a lot of people, a 1.5 high-school grade-point average and a youthful arrest for lobbing beer cans out of a ca...
In 1995, rainmaker Debra Pole broke away from Ralph Campillo's Santa Monica boutique, taking the largest firm client with her ...
LOS ANGELES - Victor Maurice Hoard, who is serving a three-strikes life sentence for robbing a jewelry store, can at least say...
LOS ANGELES - Wrapping up five weeks of testimony, the lawyer for sports superagent Leigh Steinberg told a federal jury that ...
SAN DIEGO - After deliberating for three hours, the jury of seven men and five women considering the fate of Kristin M. Rossum...
CRESCENT CITY - In his leisure time, Superior Court Judge Robert Weir kayaks the Smith River in serene Del Norte County. In co...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Changes should be made to child-support laws to eliminate injustice to fathers. ...