Focus Column - By Michael Cypers, It is common for plaintiffs to sue multiple defendants in a class-action case. At the critic...
Judges and Judiciary
Master of Negotiation Rules With Affability in Courtroom
By Tamara Scott
VAN NUYS - Lawyers give Judge Bert Glennon Jr. high marks for being "perfectly bland." Conciliatory to the core, Glennon leave...
Forum Column - By John F. Banzhaf III, Reports that smoking cost the American public more than $100 billion a year - much of i...
LOS ANGELES - The San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins has recruited white-collar criminal defense attorney Robert E. ...
Tort Law Practitioner Column - By Lisa M. Baird and Joseph Lee, With the Olympics almost upon us, and the Superbowl just concl...
LOS ANGELES - Officially, they are now a class of woe, twice over. That was the result of a ruling last week by Los Angeles Su...
Forum Column - By Phillip Carter, In America's rush to condemn the men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, we have forgotten the rea...
LOS ANGELES - Private services have taken place for David A. Ruen, a retired civil litigator known around his former office as...
Dicta Column - By Sally R. Gonzalez and Beth E. Kellermann, In these uncertain economic times, law firms are looking for way...
Dicta Column - By Tobi C. Clinton, Raymond L. Ocampo Jr.'s book is a refreshing presentation of philosophical and legal issues...
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin, The job market has turned almost 180 degrees in the last 12 months. Jobs are harder to...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that the city may proceed with its lawsuit against Kajima Engineering and Constr...
LOS ANGELES - Proposals by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to eradicate billboards from the city limits won't pass constitution...
WASHINGTON - With the White House and Congress' General Accounting Office preparing to go to court later this month over acces...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Listens Carefully to Those Who Come to Court
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - With a new general civil assignment that began earlier this month, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregory Lewi...
Construction Law Practitioner Column - By John P. McGill, The old saying that "no good turn deserves to go unpunished" seems a...
LOS ANGELES - Calling petitioners "no more than uninvited meddlers," the U.S. attorney's office said Thursday that a civil rig...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger, It's time to return to the first-year law-school course in federal civil procedure, whe...
HUNTINGTON BEACH - Services have been held for Paul A. Reilly, who was struck by a pickup truck Jan. 7 while crossing Pacific ...
Large Firms
Gray Cary's Acquisition of D.C. Firm Bolsters Technology Base
By Tanya Rothman
LOS ANGELES - Justone month after Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich sliced 13 percent of its associate work force, ...
Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger, The "Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation," edited by the Harvard Law Review, whose...
"Yes I do, thank you." John Walker Lindh, when asked whether he grasped the accusations that he conspired to kill Americans ab...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has launched an informational Web site that allows attorneys and the public to access qu...
Intellectual Property Practitioner Column - By Donald M. Gindy, Trademark owners strive to retain customer loyalty by producin...
LOS ANGELES - The American Corporate Counsel Association has issued its inaugural comprehensive study of in-house lawyers. The...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court has decided to review the 4th District Court of Appeal's decision in a controversia...
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...