SAN DIMAS - Services have taken place for Raymond G. Lamb, a prominent Pomona Valley lawyer and community leader. Lamb died Th...
VAN NUYS - For Judge John S. Fisher, a former prosecutor and son of a Los Angeles police officer, the Rampart scandal was an e...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County authorities dropped plans Tuesday to take an assault allegation against a San Francisco prosecuto...
Constitutional Law
9th Circuit Will Reconsider Inmate's 'Right to Procreate'
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it will reconsider a controversial decision that gra...
LOS ANGELES - It's not too often lacrosse helps to save someone's life. But that's what happened, at least for a time, in the ...
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are complaining that hearings on the Bush administration's controversial new anti-terrorism le...
On March 3, 1999, a middle-aged African-American man named LaFrance Hamilton was bicycling near his home, when he was stopped ...
You've obtained a significant win for your client - the Court of Appeal has reversed the dismissal that your opponent obtained...
Basic principles of parliamentary procedure hold that a majority decides but that a minority has a right to be heard and that ...
SAN DIEGO - Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch has agreed to acquire the Carlsbad-based firm of Lodge & Heller in an e...
LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of possessing child...
SAN FRANCISCO - The public can learn the identity of two mystery figures allegedly involved in the case of convicted felon and...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Finds Railroad Not at Fault in Boy's Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. was not responsible for the death of a 10-year-old boy who was ...
LOS ANGELES - Is it possible to guard against the violent acts of a zealot? According to Eleanor and Charles Kadish, the answe...
LOS ANGELES - Sara Jane Olson's lawyers did a terrific job Monday of proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have been st...
SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer activist organization's bid to formally represent Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s 4.5 million ratepa...
Once again, our federal court of appeals has decided to impose its own view of policy on the people of California, telling the...
As we begin to recover from the recent terrorist attacks on our country, many law firms find it difficult to concentrate on co...
Now, this was a thief of the first magnitude. First magnitude for the amount of times he got caught, not first magnitude for t...
As of the end of September 2001, nearly 7,000 people were serving sentences of at least 25-years-to-life in prison because of ...
Five long weeks after the Bush administration first proposed its anti-terrorism legislation following the Sept. 11 attacks, P...
WASHINGTON - Taking on a major First Amendment issue, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether states can bar ju...
Transactions
Gibson Dunn: CADENCE DESIGN WILL BUY SILICON PERSPECTIVE CORP.
By Staff Writer
San Jose's Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Silicon Perspective Corp. of Santa Clara. Neither company would d...
In today's economy, the quick deals are usually the ones that involve at least one struggling company. So when a deal between ...
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Pilsbury Winthrop: MAGMA DESIGN HITS THE MARKET AS PUBLIC ENTITY
By Staff Writer
Cupertino-based Magma Design Automation Inc. raised $63 million in an initial public offering of the company's stock. New York...
In Hollywood, duking it out at a celebrity hangout is a tradition, right up there with throwing cell phones at assistants and ...
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Quarles & Brady: MEDICAL TESTING BUSINESS BUYS DRUG-SCREEN MAKER
By Staff Writer
Apogent Technologies Inc. of Portsmouth, N.H., announced that it acquired Forefront Diagnostics Inc. of Laguna Hills. Neither ...
Mike Elliott can't figure out Eddie Nash. Elliott is a film producer who has managed to finish 80 low-budget films, ranging fr...
Michael Garfinkel, partner with Los Angeles' Rintala Smoot Jaenicke & Rees, says that television can spice up the average ...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin: LITIGATOR GIVES UP NAME GAME, SWITCHES OUTFITS
By Staff Writer
John Ponder of Sparber Ferguson Ponder & Ryan has left his full-service firm after 15 years, for the San Diego office of S...