SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Daily Journal has won two awards in the Associated Press News Executives Council Newswriting...
SACRAMENTO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued two power generators for antitrust violations Monday, marking the first ...
Bankruptcy
PUC Plan Sets Precedent in Bankruptcy of Public Utilities
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Public Utilities Commission on Monday went where no regulatory agency has gone before - into fe...
Entertainment & Sports
Adults' Explosive Rancor in Pooh Litigation Threatens First Amendment
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The world is so unpeaceful these days that even Winnie the Pooh's idyllic Hundred Acre Wood has becom...
Appellate Practice
Justices Struggle With How to Apply 'Apprendi' to Drug-Case Terms
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After Leonard Cotton and six other Baltimore residents were convicted in 1999 of conspiracy to distribute cocaine...
Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Trials in commercial cases often involve large numbers of exhibits that require counsel to...
Cicta Column - Court Jester - In Oreste Lodi, Reversioner v. Oreste Lodi, Beneficiary, Oreste Lodi, Reversioner v. Ores...
Judges and Judiciary
Jury Service Need Not Be Disillusioning Experience
By Staff Writer
Forum Column - By Judi Birnberg - My experience as a prospective juror was an exercise in frustration and a clear illustratio...
WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, an often-blunt man who made his mark as a gridiron star, Rhodes Sch...
LOS ANGELES - Boosting its labor and employment law practice, New York-based Proskauer Rose has nabbed rainmaker Mark Theodore...
Partner Lance Kimmel led Santa Monica's Entravision Communications Corp. in its seven-year, $225 million high-yield debt offer...
Firm Watch
Higgs Fletcher: CORPORATE DUO JOIN FROM ARTER'S SAN DIEGO OUTPOST
By Staff Writer
Two corporate lawyers have parted ways with Arter & Hadden , joining San Diego native firm Higgs Fletcher & Mack . Wil...
Gov. Gray Davis appointed Frank Kaplan, partner at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Los Angeles, to the California Law ...
The California Manufactured Housing Institute honored Gary Barr, name partner of Encino's Alpert & Barr, with the Jack E. ...
David Waite, partner at Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, spoke at the Urban Land Institute Los Angeles' Urban...
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp. closed a public offering worth $37 million. The deal closed Feb. 27. The underwriters included Fr...
MaguirePartners acquired its partner's interest in downtown Los Angeles' Library Tower through a financing deal with Credit Su...
Joshua Grode of Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif spoke at the Game Developers Conference in San Jos...
Netopia Inc. has acquired DoBox Inc. in a deal that closed March 29. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alameda's Netopia m...
BPB will acquire the United States-based gypsum business from James Hardie Industries. The cash sale is worth $345 million. Th...
Carr & Farrell's Jeffrey Cappaccio, 43, has joined many high-profile Italian-Americans as a board member of the National I...
The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization has certified Bruce Sires, a partner at Los Angeles' Valensi Rose &a...
Five Star Legal and Compliance Systems Inc. honored Erin Walsh as the 2001 Paralegal of the Year. Walsh, of Washington, D.C.-b...
Patricia Phillips, of-counsel at Morrison & Foerster, believes that female lawyers need mentors, and she has spent much of...
When applied to the legal field, Weblogs present an irresistible channel for moving beyond the realm of operational details in...
The Glendale Memorial Health Foundation named as chairman Sheldon Baker, partner at Glendale's Baker Olson LeCroy & Daniel...
Entravision Communications Corp. has agreed to sell $225 million of senior subordinated notes. The notes mature in 2009. The b...
Howrey Simon Arnold & White has formed an affiliate to manage the intellectual assets of businesses. Maxiam, which launche...
Firm Watch
Nossaman Guthner: LOS ANGELES SOLO BRINGS OVER HEALTH CARE CLIENTS
By Staff Writer
Attorney Daniel H. Willick is bringing his health care expertise to the Los Angeles office of Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elli...
A 15-year-old wishes a midlife crisis on his 51-year-old father so that they can tool about town in the purple Prowler the dad...