WASHINGTON - When the savings and loan scandal broke in the late 1980s, causing billions in losses to American taxpayers, ther...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco high-tech firm has suffered a rare default judgment in a high-stakes patent case after its att...
LOS ANGELES - When Arthur Andersen, a Big Five accounting firm with revenue topping $9 billion in 2001, laid off 7,000 of its ...
LOS ANGELES - For seven days, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin has heard testimony in a case about an agreement...
SAN FRANCISCO - What six-and-a-half-year old Nicholas knows about his family is this: He loves his mommy and he loves his dadd...
LOS ANGELES - Ludwig Gerber, a writer, movie producer, Congressional candidate and lawyer, whose clients included singer Peggy...
SAN FRANCISCO - A fight over allowing Mexican trucks to haul freight throughout the United States is now apparently in the lap...
Front Page
Some State Bankruptcy Exemptions Now Will Be Updated Automatically
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Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Article XX of the California Constitution mandates that the Legislature protect "a certain...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney went too far in a sweeping search of law firms and other organizations ...
20 Under 40 - Each year, California Law Business takes a look at the some the best and brightest young talent the legal world ...
20 Under 40 - Kevin Rosen - When the Los Angeles Unified School District sued O'Melveny & Myers in 1999 for allegedly prov...
LOS ANGELES - Recent Los Angeles Superior Court judicial assignments include changes at courts in Whittier, Pomona, Huntington...
Divine inc. has agreed to acquire Viant Corp. in a stock and cash deal worth $120 million. The deal was announced April 5. Chi...
Blue Martini Software Inc. has acquired Cybrant Corp. The stock deal is worth $7 million and was announced April 16. San Mateo...
Palo Alto's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison partner Curtis Mo led JetBlue Airways Corp. in its initial public offering that bro...
20 Under 40 - Sean Collin - Sean Collin has a knack for applying life experience to his legal practice. Collin, a partner who ...
20 Under 40 - Vicki Veenker - Vicki Veenker, 39, isn't sure whether she's the only female partner given the opportunity to sta...
Skechers USA Inc. closed its senior subordinated note offering worth $90 million. The private offering closed April 5. The pur...
Firm Watch
Allen Matkins: BROBECK TECH PARTNER WILL LEAD O.C. CORPORATE GROUP
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Greg T. Williams is bringing his high-tech expertise to the Irvine office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory. The firm...
With a boom in all its practice areas, Los Angeles-based Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard hired two additional partners a...
Forum Column - Equally Speaking - By Gloria Allred and Ruth Graf-Urasaki - Premarital and post-marital agreements are a fact o...
Forum Column - By Ryan D. McCortney - After reading articles on the Supreme Court's recent decision in Hoffman Plastic Comp...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Daubert' Test Does Not Apply to Experts in State Court
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Tort Law - Column by Raphael Metzger and Greg Coolidge - California courts do not require expert medical opinions to pass any ...
SAN BERNARDINO - The crowded, crumbling San Bernardino courthouse has moved one step closer to getting much-needed repairs and...
Forum Column - By Michael J. Ortiz - Attorney General John Ashcroft may not have been behind the order to cover the bare-breas...
Column by Michael Solender - Every year, thousands of new homes are built in California, many of which are constructed imprope...
At different times over more than a decade, several female employees of Ralphs Grocery Store Co. suffered verbal and mental ab...
Column by Alex Polsky - Hang onto your hats! Construction defect litigation is about to go from a one- to a two- to a three-st...
Not the type to choose the easy route in life, attorney Philip E. Kay picked a tougher-than-usual job to pay his way through l...
An actor's greatest fear is losing his spell over an audience. The way to keep the crowd's attention is to show sincerity and ...