San Francisco's eWork Exchange Inc. has acquired Mountain View-based Brava Services Inc. Neither company disclosed the terms o...
Firm Watch
Orrick Herrington: TOKYO JOINT VENTURE ADDS A SECURITIZATION PARTNER
By Toni Vranjes
Expecting major opportunities in the Japanese financial market, San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has added an...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward, its corporate and transactional departments still reeling from the dot-com bust, has added fir...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos said he is outraged that the Los Angeles County district attorney's offic...
SAN FRANCISCO - When former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti lost his re-election bid to Steve Cooley last November,...
LOS ANGELES - It was early on the morning of Sept. 11. The twin towers at the World Trade Center had just been shattered by te...
The morning was off to a slow start for David Andrews and his wife Rozan. In April 2000, Andrews left his post as legal advise...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner has taken the highly unusual step of ordering a Beverly Hills lawyer j...
Government
State's Redistricting Plan Greeted by Slew of Legal Challenges
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Latinos, Asians and a group of bipartisan politicians are launching legal challenges this week to new maps defini...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento jurors who sentenced a convicted murderer to die should have learned of his wretched childhood in m...
LOS ANGELES - A turban is not a diaper. A child might confuse the two, but Amrik Ahluwalia never thought a member of the U.S. ...
LOS ANGELES - Ignoring a potential legal and political quagmire, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has promised to aggressively p...
Judges and Judiciary
Retiring Judge Finds New Role in Arbitration
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Four months away from his official retirement date, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James A. Albracht marvels a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just after quitting time one day 24 years ago, San Francisco's deputy city attorneys crowded into a conference...
Legal work, like many other unpleasant things, generally flows downhill. Everyone at The Firm knows his or her place on the t...
The 'Tate' trial prompted the watchdog groups to publicly attack the federation's wrestling programs, including WWF Smackdown!...
On another 11th of a month, February, in the year 1861, another president spoke these words: "I go to assume a task more diffi...
LOS ANGELES - A group of eight bankruptcy and finance lawyers is defecting from Kelley Drye & Warren, a move that will lea...
Someone "screwed up royally," as we used to say in my neighborhood. I wanted to get that out of the way early, so we could mov...
LOS ANGELES - Upholding the conviction of a distraught minor who made off with an acquaintance's infant, a state appellate cou...
Anyone who has traveled regularly on domestic airlines during the past few years, even before last week's Great Terror, knows ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Here in the Bay Area, the legal job market can be as fickle as the weather. Just ask one of the many corporate...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles will pay $60,000 to settle a case brought by seven journalists who claimed police office...
SAN FRANCISCO - The procedure was simple. Everyone got together in one room. Whoever wanted the job made a short speech. The l...
LOS ANGELES - A new Los Angeles Police Department recommendation that officers in the field carry phone numbers of immigration...
SANTA ANA - A maintenance worker repairing an escalator at the central courthouse died Thursday when the power unexpectedly ki...
SAN JOSE - As thousands of military reservists receive call-up notices in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, law firm...
WASHINGTON - When President Bush delivered his "war on terror" speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, five Supreme...
Constitutional Law
12-Step Plan Violates the Constitution, Inmate Says
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has ordered state prison officials to defend their practice of requiring inmates ...