Focus Column - Business Law - By Antonio R. Sarabia II and William J. Kopesky - A client may ask its regular civil counsel to ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
East Bay Law Center Founder Gets Loren Miller Award
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Bernida Reagan, the founder and former director of the East Bay Community Law Center, has received the State B...
SACRAMENTO - There is an incongruous, intimate atmosphere surrounding the monthly meetings of the state Fair Political Practic...
Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Given the traffic congestion and air pollution that literally and figuratively choke Cal...
SACRAMENTO - Republican state Sen. Dick Ackerman was not his party's first choice to run for attorney general against Bill Loc...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has twice in the past few months issued orders that environmentalists say should have h...
LOS ANGELES - She's a hippie, a rich Westside liberal, a sacrificial lamb for O.J. Simpson. These are just a few of the explan...
Litigation
Lessons From the Pillsbury Fiasco: Less Publicity, More Prozac
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The saga of Frode Jensen, the former Pillsbury Winthrop partner who tried to jump ship to Latham &...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco doctor's 1998 protest of physician layoffs at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital may have ...
Civil Rights
Sheriff's Laxity is Old News, Civil Rights Bar Says
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has failed to investigate more than 800 claims of deput...
Intellectual Property
Registration Alone Is Insufficient to Defeat Summary Judgment
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Tie Tech Inc. v. Kinedyne Corp., 296 F.3d 778 ...
Column by Noelle C. Nelson - Good cases often are lost by lawyers who unwittingly alienate jurors. Jurors expect attorneys to ...
While his departure may not be on par with those of James Elacqua and Tower Snow, Kevin DeBr's decision to leave Brobeck, Phle...
Harvey L. Silbert, a noted businessman, entertainment lawyer and philanthropist, died at his home in Century City on Sept. 28....
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman have reunited but not for the reason their fans wish they would. No, they're not back together ag...
Southern California attorney Michael A. J. Nangano enjoys litigation - perhaps too much. Nangano, 42, sued the law office that...
Firm Watch
Baker & McKenzie Taps Litigator In San Diego Quarters as Partner
By Staff Writer
Katherine A. Bacal is the newest litigation partner in the San Diego office of Baker & McKenzie. The Chicago-based firm an...
Column by By David A. Gerber - Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 permits a defendant to serve an offer of judgment. Unless th...
Firm Watch
Orrick Herrington Adds Partner, Expanding Its London Legation
By Staff Writer
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe continues the steady growth of its 19-attorney London office with the addition of partner J...
Firm Watch
Preston Gates Adds Litigators To Its Washington, D.C. Branch
By Staff Writer
Preston Gates & Ellis has added a pair of litigators to the firm's Washington, D.C., office, Preston Gates Ellis & Rou...
Column by By Linda H. Wyner - The media frenzy over dog attacks and animal rights raised in the Diane Whipple dog-mauling case...
Litigation
Love Will Take Executive Officer Post in San Diego Superior Court
By Claude Walbert
Stephen V. Love, former chief deputy director of the California's Administrative Office of the Courts, will become executive o...
Westmont College has obtained $22.5 million in tax-exempt financing, which will help spruce up its Santa Barbara campus. ...
Litigation
Retailers Settle With Saipan Garment Workers for $20 Million
By Joan Osterwalder
Garment workers on a tropical Western Pacific island may feel more like they live in paradise after dozens of major U.S. retai...
When 10-attorney Gabriel & Herman closed its doors last month, name partner Allan Gabriel went looking for a new home. And...
Litigation
Orange County Trial Lawyers Will Honor Top Gun Winners on Friday
By Stefanie Knapp
The Orange County Trial Lawyers Association will hand out its Top Gun awards Friday at a dinner and silent auction at the Sutt...
Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge James Bascue recently ordered the following assignments and reassignments: As of Se...
Passengers aboard a Boeing 747 en route to Europe vanish into thin air. Cars, suddenly lacking drivers, careen out of control....
Ten Mexican lemon pickers claim their experience with a Santa Paula farm labor contractor turned sour. In a lawsuit, the citru...
Litigation
University of West Los Angeles Provides Pair of Minilaw Classes
By Stefanie Knapp
Those of you wishing to learn a little bit about the laws surrounding special needs children or bankruptcy should check out th...