In Closing Column - By Dennis L. Sharp and John M. Seitman - While there are many advantages to contractual arbitration, perh...
Firm Watch
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Adds Partner to Handle International Tax
By Staff Writer
In the nation's capitol, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw added another international tax partner to its ranks Sept. 4. Hal Hicks,...
A Los Angeles law firm is representing Gadzoox Networks Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Northern California. ...
Venture capital money continues to flow into Orange County medical device manufacturer MicroVention Inc. The Aliso Viejo-based...
In the six years since the State Bar of California first developed a committee on alternative dispute resolution, continuing e...
After three years of litigation, an international price-fixing conspiracy class action brought by livestock producers and feed...
Litigation
Superior Court Judge Draper Retires After Serving 16 Years
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge William B. Draper Jr. has retired after more than 16 years as a trial judge. His final assign...
Litigation
Appligent Software Lets Firms Control Classified Information
By Stefanie Knapp
Appligent Inc. has released new software that allows law firms to redact sensitive information from portable document format, ...
SANTA BARBARA - You could hardly get horsier than Hope Ranch. In the exclusive Santa Barbara-area community, riders gallop dow...
SAN FRANCISCO - Upon returning to the adult criminal courts last month after spending four years defending juvenile cases, Jea...
Criminal
Investigation Targets Figure at Heart of Hollywood and Politics
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Cody Cluff, the insider's insider who has built a career at that point where the glittery worlds of Hollywood an...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Compliance With State Won't Shield Local Agency From Flood Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Todd W. Blischke - In Arreola v. Monterey County, 99 Cal.App.4th 722 (2002), the 6th District Court o...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald George and Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown are at it again. Three weeks ...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The movement to secure reparations for African-Americans who are the descendants of slave...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has tentatively dismissed a class action brought by six San Diego teen-agers who alleged that big cigarett...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles lawyer is expected to be arraigned today on an embezzlement charge for allegedly stealing a dying ...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time a woman has been named to head the Judicial Conference Executive Committee, which helps for...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has rejected convicted murderer David A. Westerfield's motion to bar the death penalty, saying that the st...
Forum Column - By R. William Ide III - In the past year, the American people have been shaken by numerous corporate scandals, ...
Focus Column - By Elizabeth E. Launer - The concept of joint inventorship, where two or more people make a single patentable ...
Judges and Judiciary
Attorney Files Countersuit Against Judge After Divorce
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A family law attorney has sued a San Francisco judge, saying he failed to pay for work on his divorce case. Su...
CARLSBAD - Sonja and Abel Cassel, doing business as What A Girl Wants (a clothing boutique), leased 1,036 square feet of reta...
LOS ANGELES - One of Eric Dubin's biggest trials is being staged far away from any courtroom, and so far the jury is out. Dubi...
Product Liability
Chocolate Lawsuit Is a Sweet Deat for Plaintiff's Attorneys
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey B. Margulies - For the last 15 years, countless consumer products have come within the sights of bou...
Entertainment & Sports
Jury Will Decide Who Had Dominion of Home-Run Ball
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The ball that leapt from Barry Bonds' bat, landed briefly in Alex Popov's glove and emerged from Patrick Hayas...
Litigation
Court Upholds Department's Discretion in Parks Contracts
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Two recent court decisions have upheld the broad discretion of the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Park...
OAKLAND - Three police officers who called themselves the Riders used violence, coercion and trumped-up evidence to terrorize ...
LOS ANGELES - In a highly unusual decision, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday tossed out a $78 million jury fraud ve...
LOS ANGELES - Taking the witness stand in a wheelchair, the 89-year-old mother of an El Monte man shot and killed by police te...
SAN FRANCISCO -For nearly 20 years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been attempting to transform its 200-yea...