WASHINGTON - In the latest chapter in the ongoing Enron scandal, the General Accounting Office plans to file an unprecedented ...
Focus Column - By Benjamin Scheibe, The ongoing controversy over DVD decryption technology has produced yet another startling ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Curiosity About Justice Department's Statue Cover-Up Could Expand
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - No nudes is good nudes. This ancient schoolyard pun flashed across my mind this week when I read the ...
LOS ANGELES - Margaret S. Henry's chambers have that tousled look of offices stalled in transition from old occupant's style t...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson, To many of us, the image of the farmer at his plow is right up there with motherhood and ice...
SAN BERNARDINO - District Attorney Dennis Stout is no stranger to the rigors of campaigning for elected office. To become Ranc...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Man Who Abused Dog Is Mentally Ill, Court Rules
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Nobody disputed that David Dyer slit a dog's throat and planned to cook the animal and eat it. The Oroville man ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Young Lawyers' New Head Oozes Enthusiasm, Energy
By Jenna Bordelon
PASADENA - Laura Farber admits she has trouble saying "No" to a good cause. So despite a sometimes hectic job as partner at Pa...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Tuesday that a court cannot remove a lawyer from a case because of an "appearance of im...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday denied bail for two Jewish Defense League leaders accused of plotting to blow up a Culve...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman, The Sept. 11 holocaust at the World Trade Center, the illegal detention of over a thousand i...
Appellate Law Practitioner Column - By David S. Ettinger, California's rules governing appellate practice are undergoing their...
Entertainment & Sports
Jewish Law Understands and Permits Retaliation by Shaq
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Yitzchok Adlerstein and Michael Broyde, If Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O'Neal needs to improve hi...
LOS ANGELES - Citing client conflicts and a desire for a fresh start, 18 lawyers are leaving the Southland insurance defense a...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Will Study Splitting Off Conference
By Don Debenedictisn
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California and its controversial offspring, the Conference of Delegates, took a dramatic step S...
Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Benjamin R. Martin, Employers often wish that they could use noncompete agreements in ...
Column by Garry Abrams - Was Mariah Carey's recording contract politely "canceled" like a stamp? Or was it vengefully "termina...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg, It is time to reconsider the division of labor in California's civil courts. In many of the...
Forum Column - By Sean Carter, W.C. Fields once said, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again; then quit - there's no u...
LOS ANGELES - Fine-tuning the scope of the California Arbitration Act, an appellate court has ruled that parties to an arbitra...
Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz, With advances in medicine, you may find that it is entirely possible to spend 30 years in reti...
LOS ANGELES - William J. Birney is particularly proud of the part he played in two legal accomplishments. They are his sons, l...
Public Storage Inc. priced a public offering of 6 million depositary shares on Jan. 15. The offering brought in $150 million. ...
Robert Sloss , an intellectual property partner at General Counsel Associates , has left the Mountain View firm to join Farell...
The high priests of "good writing" are trying to convince lawyers to change the way they write. They want us to organize our t...
Firm Watch
Mitchell Silbererg: LITIGATOR RUNS WITHOUT COMPETITION IN ELECTION
By Staff Writer
Thomas Lambert is finishing up his first month as managing partner of Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp , a 125-att...
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. agreed to acquire Synapse Technologies Inc. in a deal announced Jan. 14. This cash-and-stock deal...
Firm Watch
Manning & Marder: SAN DIEGO GROUP PLANS MOVE TO ROOMY OFFICES
By Staff Writer
Setting its sights on bigger and better things in San Diego, Manning & Marder Kass Ellrod Ramirez is moving to an office s...
Firm Watch
Nossaman Guthner: TRANSPORTATION EXPERT COMES ABOARD IN IRVINE
By Staff Writer
Transportation attorney and consultant Sarah L. Catz has brought her expertise to the Irvine office of Nossaman Guthner Knox &...
In a year when many California law firms saw their corporate work evaporate into thin air, Latham & Watkins managed to sta...