SAN DIEGO - Kristin M. Rossum sobbed hysterically and told detectives that just because she wanted out of her marriage didn't ...
Entertainment & Sports
With God, the Angels and Bratton, L.A.'s Future Is Way Too Bright
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In the city that inspired noir film and fiction and that spawned the all-too-real Rampart police scan...
Intellectual Property
Patent Defense Criticized for Harm to Poor Countries
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property owners aren't particularly popular these days. Increasingly, copyright, patent and trade...
LOS ANGELES - California employers cannot be sued under the Fair Employment and Housing Act when their customers or clients se...
LOS ANGELES - Justice Mildred L. Lillie, the grand dame of the California bench and the longest-serving judge in the history o...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has decided that judicial candidate Craig Renetzky can run with the ballo...
LOS ANGELES - Disagreeing with California courts, a federal appellate court ruled Monday that seeing a Riverside County murder...
SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor's daughter testified Monday that she lied during earlier hearings and omitted informat...
Focus Column - Franchise Law - Most franchise agreements provide the franchisee with a right of renewal. But few allow renewal...
Forum Column - By Chip Nielsen and Lance Olson - Election experts predict Proposition 52 will increase voter turnout in Califo...
Forumn Column - By Dave Gilliard - Does allowing people to register to vote on Election Day, without providing any official ID...
The advertisements want you to believe that diamonds are beautiful, but as Nicolas Kublicki shows in his new novel, the diamon...
Sarah Davis' trial against American Honda Motors Co. took an unexpected turn. The quadriplegic sued Honda for causing her crip...
Litigation
District Judge Wins Maynard Toll Award From Legal Aid Foundation
By Staff Writer
The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles will present federal Judge Dickran Tevrizian of the U.S. District Court for the Centra...
With merger mania and law firm economics, it's often here today, gone tomorrow. That seems to be the case in the latest round ...
Litigation
Conference Will Target Toxic Mold, Welcome Author of Protection Act
By Staff Writer
Lorman Education Services will sponsor a daylong conference on toxic mold Nov. 7 at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa...
Palo Alto's IXI Mobile Inc., which develops software that enables cutting-edge wireless devices to interact, has raised $15 mi...
Litigation
Pasadena Bar Group Celebrates 9th U.S. Circuit Justice at Dinner
By Staff Writer
The Pasadena Bar Association honored Justice Dorothy Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the Judge of the Yea...
Firm Watch
Crosby Heafey Joins Reed Smith In Trendy Cross-Country Merger
By Erik Cummins
The combination of Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May with Pittsburgh's Reed Smith is the latest law firm merger with a b...
A lump of coal is a precious commodity, as two newly merged Utah companies can attest. The companies, which extract value from...
Lord, Bissell & Brook has hired finance and real estate partner Cherie Raidy away from the Los Angeles office of New York'...
Litigation
Fifth-Graders Participate in Mock Trial Hosted by Holland & Knight
By Staff Writer
Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs, the Wicked Queen and the Mirror made an appearance at Esperanza Elementary School in Los Angeles...
Column by Karl J. Schulze - Business litigation today rarely progresses without the use of a variety of experts, whether as a ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
San Jose's NetIQ Will Buy PentaSafe for $255 Million
By Toni Vranjes
NetIQ Corp. of San Jose has agreed to buy a privately held computer security company in a deal valued at $255 million in cash ...
Litigation
Judge Joins JAMS After 35 Years Of Experience on Bench and Bar
By Staff Writer
Joseph Johnston is the latest judge to join JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider. Johnston, 68, brings with...
Customers frequenting the dozens of Rent-A-Center stores in California should notice more female employees helping them, after...
The attorneys at Morrison & Foerster probably can't stand on the balance beam without risking bodily injury, and it's not ...
Eddie Rodriguez has left the San Diego office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and accepted an offer to establish a corporat...
In Closing Column - By Pamela J. Voich & Michele C.S. Lange - In October 2001, the California Legislature passed amendment...
Cord Blood Registry, which stores stem cells from newborns for use in case of a future medical emergency, has secured $18 mill...