Forum Column - By Luke McLoughlin - The famous quotation by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The life of the law has not been l...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - President Bush has cited the possibility that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Gerald Z. Marer - You have to love those appellate justices in San Jose. No prudish, cloister...
Michael Dunn says a lasting fissure between the litigation and transactional practices at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison led ...
Like any good son, attorney Thomas V. Girardi loves his 92-year-old father, Albert H. Girardi, very much. The two still work t...
Litigation
Court Approves $175 Million Award Reversal Against Plant-Gene Maker
By Catherine Cavella
Encino attorneys Ellis J. Horvitz, David M. Axelrad, Jon E. Eisenberg and Andrea M. Gauthier of Horvitz & Levy, along with...
Actors Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James have many converts in the lawyer community. The couple has worked with more than 25...
Kintera Inc., which provides high-tech tools for charitable fund raising, has closed another round of financing. The participa...
Column - By Michael McSweeney - While the recession technically may be behind us, the last 18 months have hit the legal indust...
Venture investors have poured another $20 million into Northern California tech company Zeevo Inc. The Santa Clara-based compa...
Firm Watch
McDermott Will Lures Litigator To Growing Silicon Valley Office
By Joel Rosenblatt
Edwin Wheeler, an intellectual property litigator, has left Howrey Simon Arnold & White to become a partner at the Palo Al...
Several Muslim inmates at the California State Prison at Solano allege the state is incarcerating their beliefs. They claim th...
On July 30, attorneys from a who's who of big-ticket corporate litigation met with mediator Jeff Kichaven to discuss recent tr...
Litigation
Panel OKs Judicial Candidate's Description on November Ballot
By Leslie Simmons
The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled Sept. 11 that it was reasonable for Paul Bacigalupo, a State Bar Court judge and Los An...
Four Lyon & Lyon attorneys have followed partner Jeffrey Olson to Chicago's Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, in the wake of...
On its Web site, Fertility Associates of the Bay Area reassures potential clients who are shopping for a clinic performing in ...
Litigation
Bar Group Will Listen to Lawyer Discuss State Case He Argued
By Stefanie Knapp
The Los Angeles County Bar Association hosts California Cardinal Change and Total Cost Claim Developments on Sept. 24 at the O...
Firm Watch
Foley, Security Consultant Form Cyber Swat Team to Tackle Crises
By Stefanie Knapp
If your worst fear is having your Web site shut down because it's been bombarded with e-mails or that you can't access importa...
Litigation
Women Lawyers Association Will Present Annual Awards, Officers
By Stefanie Knapp
The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles will hand out its annual awards and install its new president Sept. 27 at the Omn...
Column - By Charles W. Laurence - The Silicon Valley-led technology craze of the past few years may not be the only thing on t...
Two young women went to a renowned psychologist at the Stanford clinic for alternative medical treatment for their chronic arm...
Thomas Curtiss Jr. has decided to take his trusts and estates practice to a smaller shop. Curtiss, along with associate Jean B...
The Los Angeles office of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro has joined the fight against San Fernando Valley secession, an...
There are only a handful of lawyers like Ray Wong. Wong, a Chinese-American who has chaired San Francisco's Hancock, Rothert &...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate attorneys and their clients have another deadline to sweat under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate...
Front Page
Gotcha Surfwear Firm Files for Chapter 11 Creditor Protection
By Toni Vranjes
Irvine surfwear company Gotcha International has sought protection from its creditors in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana....
LOS ANGELES - Testimony in the first tobacco trial since a California Supreme Court ruling protected cigarette companies durin...
Government Contracts
Police Chief Candidate Has Criticized Ashcroft
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - One of the three finalists for Los Angeles police chief recently published an article calling on President Bush ...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Gov. Gray Davis has been extremely tough on criminals. His support of the...
LOS ANGELES - He's known to many as "Big Al," but to attorney Tom Girardi, he's simply "Pop." At 92, Albert Girardi continues ...