The infusion of talent into the Orange County outpost of Manatt Phelps & Phillips continues, with the addition of corporat...
The prospects for success in mediation, as with most endeavors, are greatly enhanced by careful preparation. Following are s...
Intersil Corp. will acquire Elantec Semiconductor Inc. in a $1.4 billion stock and cash deal that was announced March 11. Irvi...
Clifford Hyatt , who helped crack the case of a high-profile Internet hoax two years ago that sent shares of Emulex Corp. tumb...
Solo and Small Firms
Trial Lawyer Rejuvenates His Practice By Teaming With Two Young Attorneys
By Erik Cummins
Michael D. Senneff, 60, has tried scores of cases to verdict in his 36-year career as a trial lawyer. So many, in fact, that h...
Law Practice
Placement Professionals Offer Tips For Being Successful at in Job Searches
By Erik Cummins
Silicon Valley's reversal of fortune has left many local legal professionals, including paralegals, without a paycheck. But la...
Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc. has signed a lease with the California State University Board of Trustees to develop a sport...
InterMune Inc. announced the offering of 3 million shares to the public. The shares were offered at $37 a piece and will bring...
SAN FRANCISCO - Moving to halt the judicial expansion of police power, a divided state court of appeal has ruled officers cann...
Intellectual Property
Judge Rejects Online Music Patent, Citing Its Public Use
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Oakland appears to have dealt a major blow to a San Francisco company's attempt to assert a...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian likes the view of downtown Los Angeles from his eighth-floor window. It's ...
Forum Column - By Francis O. Spalding - On Sept. 26, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law SB475, which gives the California Judicia...
SAN DIEGO - A nanny who was caught by a hidden video camera while grabbing a 2-year-old boy by the neck and throwing him acros...
SAN JOSE - U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has approved the settlement of a class action against a Johnson & Johnson subs...
Although best known as a rainmaker in the real estate world, Paul Walker acts more like an interior decorator as he gives a to...
JOSHUA TREE - Carrie Davis, a mother convicted of child murder and torture in a high-profile San Bernardino County case, has g...
LOS ANGELES - The Oscars are over for the year, but the memory may linger on in a lawsuit brought by the Western Law Center fo...
SANTA ANA - The final tally in the March 5 race for Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline's office shows that Kline ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The hotly contested admission of evidence that Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel were associates of the Aryan B...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which hopes to begin reviving its troubled bankruptcy reorganization plan this w...
SACRAMENTO - Two bills before the state Legislature are giving civil libertarians the heebie-jeebies. One would require all sc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Andrew Giacomini has been named managing partner of San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rud...
Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - Guilty pleas are not games. They are serious proceedings that have lasting consequences...
Criminal
Police Can Search Car for Documents Anywhere That They Might Be Found
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli The California Supreme Court in the potentially far-reaching opinion in In re Arturo D....
SAN DIEGO - Inside the gilded lobby of a stately downtown hotel, Anthony D. Romero refuses the luxury of a deeply cushioned ch...
Opinion Column - By Edward J. Casey - Some say that the story of California is the story of water. Without the construction of...
Employment Column - By Michael Brown - At some point in their careers, many attorneys grapple with disillusionment and dissati...
Judges and Judiciary
Women's Commission Lauds Pair of Female Judges in L.A.
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Commission for Women has named two Los Angeles Superior Court judges Women of the Year. T...
Viewpoint Column - By Noelle C. Nelson - National events of the magnitude of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks shape every aspect...
Roundtable - Linda B. Bulmash, Mediator with ADR Services, Robert Altman, Mediator and retired judge ADR Services, Nancy Bornn...