Firm Watch
Insurance Bad-Faith Litigation Practice Welcomes New Leader
By Staff Writer
The Quisenberry Law Firm has landed a new lawyer to head its eight-attorney insurance bad-faith litigation practice. Anthony ...
Firm Watch
Crosby Heafey Partner Moves to Foley Business Law Department
By Staff Writer
Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has picked up Richard W. "Jack" Lasater II from Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May. Lasater, who ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Merger Work in U.S. Ranks Latham & Watkins in Top 10
By Stefanie Knapp
Only one California law firm - Latham & Watkins - landed a place among the top 10 legal advisers in the United States for ...
Jeffrey Weiner and Perrie Weiner probably haven't had adjoining rooms since the late 1960s, when they were kids. But, now that...
A little more than a year after it merged with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, Nixon Peabody appears to be taking the n...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Lawyers Reap Awards At State Bar Gathering
By Staff Writer
As the State Bar's annual meeting wrapped up, several lawyers traveled home with new memorabilia for their office walls. The a...
Firm Watch
Fenwick & West Elevates Five to Partnership During Annual Meeting
By Staff Writer
At Fenwick & West's annual partnership meeting, held Oct. 5, the firm elected associates Rodger R. Cole, Jedediah Wakefiel...
To visit the three kings of insurance bad-faith law, you need to get in your car and jump on the freeway heading east out of L...
San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has picked up former Lyon & Lyon partner Arnold Sklar. Sklar joined the fir...
Litigation
Zi Will Battle $9 Million Award for Patent Infringement
By Christina Landers
Zi Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, announced recently that it will fight a $9 million jury verdict awarded against it for patent in...
Firm Watch
Of-Counsel Goes to Allen Matkins' Outpost in San Diego From Heller
By Staff Writer
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory hired Peter Townshend as of-counsel from Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo P...
Litigation
Malpractice Issues Highlight Beverly Hills Bar Group Event
By Stefanie Knapp
The Beverly Hills Bar Association will host an alternative dispute resolution dinner Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. at McCormick & Schm...
Job seekers are increasingly getting online help in their hunt for work. Search engines such as Monster.com, hotjobs.com and c...
Litigation
Jury Awards $59 Million to Girl Brain-Damaged During Birth
By Joan Osterwalder
Caitlin Greenwell is turning 3 today. The girl is permanently brain-damaged from a birth injury, but she may have a happier ce...
Yvonne Wilson says she wasn't only up against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but also her own age. The 97-year-old...
Choosing challenge over comfort, renowned litigator Kenneth Chiate has left the Los Angeles office of San Francisco's Pillsbur...
Litigation
Trial Lawyers Association Taps New Officers, Board Members
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Business Trial Lawyers announced its new officers and board of governors earlier this month. All members wi...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Names Six to Benches In Three Southland Counties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis last week continued a recent flurry of judicial appointments, naming six new judges in Los Angel...
Intellectual Property
First Open-Source Case Has Yet to Resolve Any Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Laura A. Majerus - When counseling clients on matters relating to open-source licens...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $425,000 to a Locke High School art teacher who said she was retaliated against f...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawyer Finds Neutral Role Is 'Energizing and Empowering'
By Eron Yehuda
Many children expect to borrow money from a parent with no strings attached. But not Pasadena neutral Linda M. Lasley, who mad...
SAN DIEGO - A university detective testified Friday that Kristin M. Rossum looked "dramatically different" from her photograph...
MARTINEZ - The race for district attorney in Contra Costa County has revealed a hidden bug in the local campaign finance law. ...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The U.S. Congress has voted overwhelmingly to authorize President Bush to use military fo...
In another high-profile bankruptcy handled by Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, financially beleaguered software com...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a continuing pattern of caustic remarks and arbitrary rulings, the Contra Costa County district attorne...
SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of uncertainty, Jerry Litmon has finally learned that he is indeed a single man. His divorce...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Montana man who downloaded 1,300 pornographic images of young girls from the Internet is entitled to a 75 pe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal watchdog agency wants to hold up millions of dollars in fees due to lawyers and consultants in the P...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two Peninsula construction companies used a sham joint venture to circumvent city regulations giving minority-...