LOS ANGELES - Irene L. Silverman, a prominent probate attorney, has died. Silverman died Sunday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center...
Judges and Judiciary
Strict Rule-Enforcer Tolerates No Bad Behavior
By Contributing Writer
BAKERSFIELD - Almost every day for the past 19 years, Kern County Superior Court Judge James M. Stuart has been carrying a fad...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court placed new restrictions on public access to police files Monday in a ruling that ...
Black Hills Generation Inc., a subsidiary of Rapid City, S.D. Black Hills Corp., recently entered into a $140 million syntheti...
Whether in the courtroom or the conference room, attorneys are accustomed to a good fight. These days, however, some Californi...
Firm Watch
Washburn Briscoe: MERGER WITH OREGON OUTFIT EXPANDS GEOGRAPHIC REACH
By Toni Vranjes
Oregon's largest law firm just got bigger. San Francisco's Washburn Briscoe & McCarthy plans to merge with Stoel Rives , a...
Sandra Shippey, a partner with the Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch in San Diego, has joined the California State Bar Bu...
Bankruptcy attorney Geraldine A. Valdez has become the newest member of the State Bar Business Law Section's Insolvency Commi...
Voice Mobility International Inc. garnered gross proceeds of $13 million (Canadian) as it closed a private placement in the Un...
State Bar & Bar Associations
LEGAL 'THINK TANK' ELECTS L.A. ATTORNEY TO ITS RANKS
By Columnist
The American Law Institute elected Barry G. Kaiman, a partner at Los Angeles-based Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard, to t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
CAL WESTERN LAW PROFESSOR WINS AN EXCELLENCE AWARD
By Amy Bentley
The San Diego County Law Library's Justice Foundation honored Janeen Kerper, a longtime law professor at California Western Sc...
Baldwin Park's In-N-Out Corp. has signed a lease from San Francisco's Anchorage Enterprises to occupy 3,000 square feet of San...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has broached plans for a new unit to track and prosecute a greater number of chil...
Firm Watch
Coudert Brothers: NEW YORK OUTFIT NAMES AN L.A. PARTNER TO EXEC BOARD
By Toni Vranjes
New York's Coudert Brothers' has selected Los Angeles partner, David Huebner , to its executive committee. The newly elected b...
With the economy's downturn, the work at California's corporate law firms that represent technology and Internet clients has ...
Red-light cameras are unconstitutional and should be banned from our system of justice, because they deprive people of due pro...
Do what you love and the money will follow. Just ask Jack Humes. The business litigator grew up in California riding horses. A...
For the second year in a row, Global Competition Review has named Howrey Simon Arnold & White the world's top anti-trust a...
Firm Watch
McCutchen Doyle: PARTNERS CHOOSE LITIGATOR TO BE THEIR NEW CHAIRMAN
By Toni Vranjes
The partners at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen have elected litigator Donn Pickett as their new chairman....
Firm Watch
Townsend and Townsend: NEW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BREAKS DOWN INTO THREES
By Toni Vranjes
More is better, Townsend and Townsend and Crew has decided. The San Francisco-based firm has restructured its management team ...
Firm Watch
Brobeck Phleger: PALO ALTO OFFICE AND HOTEL WILL SHARE COMPLEX SPACE
By Toni Vranjes
Coming soon to a Brobeck Phleger & Harrison office complex in the Silicon Valley: a Four Seasons hotel. Last year, Brobeck...
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels of Chicago recently arranged the sale of three Monterey properties to the Monterey-based Cannery Row...
SAN DIEGO - President Bush will nominate former San Diego lawyer Mary L. Walker to be general counsel of the Department of the...
Constitutional Law
Devices Intrude Less On Lives Than Other Surveillance Tools
By Columnist
About 60 U.S. communities are using red-light cameras, with significant safety benefits. Research by the Insurance Institute f...
In November, John Iino was sitting on a beach in Hawaii when his cell phone rang. The client on the other end presented the va...
Payne v. National Collection Systems Inc. , 91 Cal.App.4th 1037 (2001), addresses the res judicata implications on a pr...
In other Procopio Cory news, bankruptcy attorney Geraldine A. Valdez has become the newest member of the State Bar Business La...
The latest published work of San Francisco attorney Roger L. Davis has a family feel. Davis, the chairman of Orrick Herrington...
For now, lawsuits premised on the notion that guns cause harm and do not benefit society will not get far. ...