Litigation partner John W. Fowler left Bingham McCutchen to join Bergeson Eliopoulos, a litigation boutique in San Jose, the f...
Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstrief is leaving its Santa Monica headquarters for Westwood Village. The firm has inked...
Attorney Cary Hall is no stranger to work with the Center for Law in the Public Interest. In high school, he worked as assista...
Column by James J. Farrell and Anthony N. Luti - The number of class actions has grown tremendously over the last decade. Betw...
Column by Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Is there a role for humor in mediation? - To answer this question, we turned to ...
Dechert has expanded into Germany with the opening of a Frankfurt office in early August. Corporate lawyer Gerhard Kaiser has ...
Firm Watch
Jeffer Mangels Moves Quarters In San Francisco and Century City
By Staff Writer
Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro is almost finished with the moving vans and the shuffle of relocating to new offices. Th...
Keeping track of the movement of 80 attorneys is not an easy thing to do, but with intellectual property boutique Lyon & L...
Matthew McNicholas beat the odds in Norwalk. The 30-year-old up-and-coming attorney won a $1.25 million jury award in a tradit...
Wearing a dark suit, long dark coat and hat, Rabbi Chaim Baruch Rubin sweats in the hot summer sun. "Well, this is it," Rubin ...
SACRAMENTO - In a final rush to pass hundreds of bills by Saturday's deadline, the Legislature sent measures to the governor t...
LOS ANGELES - Following last week's announcement that as many as 30 Lyon & Lyon lawyers are joining the firm, San Francisc...
LOS ANGELES - Sitting in church one Sunday, Sandra L. Buttitta, Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, was fretting over...
SAN FRANCISCO - If Linda Klee, the top administrator in the San Francisco district attorney's office, wants to calculate her d...
SACRAMENTO - Emily Vasquez is a humble, gracious, quiet woman with an audacious streak that would astonish anyone who is not i...
Column by Garry Abrams - If you want to commit burglary and maybe get away with it, try breaking into a government building on...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ann M. Pease, special counsel to Cooley Godward's intellectual property litigation group, has jumped ship and ...
Criminal
Banning of Photographer From Court Spotlights State's Rules
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An angry judge's broadside from the bench has drawn attention to California Rule of Court 980, which governs the...
Forum Column - By Margaret Crosby - In striking down the McCarthy-era law that rewrote the Pledge of Allegiance to insert the ...
SACRAMENTO - A package of bills aimed at making private alternative dispute resolution services more fair for consumers appear...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Screening May Prevent 'Imputed Knowledge' Disqualification
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - California law may prohibit a firm from accepting or continuing employment adverse to parties...
Forum Colum - By Julia Alanen - In Los Angeles County, an indigent non-English-speaker is unlikely to achieve a meaningful day...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George has been named recipient of the 2002 William H. Rehnquist Award for ...
LOS ANGELES - Appellate court Justice Laurence D. Rubin carries a picture of 1940s actress Frances Farmer in his wallet to rem...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe closed a deal that opens the doors on its first Orange County...
SAN FRANCISCO - The sluggish economy continues to take its toll on associates and legal employees as Gray Cary Ware & Frei...
LOS ANGELES - Three politically powerful Malibu residents can buy the public a $1 million beach instead of letting them peek a...
SACRAMENTO - A hotly debated bill that would require all but a few court interpreters to become court employees with collectiv...
SACRAMENTO - The Judicial Council has revived a bill that would increase civil filing fees and surcharges on criminal penaltie...
SAN FRANCISCO - If someone is suing just to get you to shut up, you can get the suit dismissed without having to prove the lit...