Firm Watch
Baker & McKenzie: SAN DIEGO OFFICE WILL HAVE MANAGING PARTNER IN JULY
By Karen Coleman
Down in California's deep south, Baker & McKenzie has announced a shift in management and the addition of a pair of new la...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: BAY AREA'S GENSTAR CAPITAL PURCHASES RESEARCH GROUP
By Victoria Newman
Private-equity firm Genstar Capital has bought clinical-research organization PRA International. The parties did not disclose ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge wept with joy Friday after a jury convicted her brother's killer of first-deg...
LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel seafood restaurant owner was convicted late Friday of possession with intent to distribute more th...
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Guru 'Pursues Happiness' in Life, Teaching
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - Law professor John C. Eastman is having the time of his life. For this constitutional law professor, "the pursui...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Governors Retain Pair of Unpopular Courses
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - California lawyers must continue to take one-hour courses on the elimination of bias and on the prevention of su...
LOS ANGELES - On July 21, 1999, Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, a once-prominent Beverly Hills eye surgeon, was convicted on 18 feder...
Litigation
LAUSD May Pay $16 Million for Uncompleted Learning Complex
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - In a tentative ruling issued Friday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge confirmed the findings of an arbitrator ...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court jury on Friday found the former assistant general manager of a San Diego County water district gu...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a millionaire acquitted of raping nine women, including seven he was accused of drugging, said Fri...
SAN FRANCISCO - A major federal crackdown that has netted indictments against a dozen people for allegedly smuggling orchids a...
Personal Injury & Torts
Judge Allows Partner in Mauling Case To Pursue Suit
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - A watershed ruling has granted Sharon Smith the right to pursue a wrongful-death claim against the two San Fra...
WASHINGTON - The attorney representing Gary Condit said the six-term California congressman is planning to appear soon before ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Keeping the image of the world's most famous purple dinosaur pure and untarnished on the Web has become a task...
LOS ANGELES - At one time, the lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers could look out their office windows and smile at the $170 mill...
Technology & Science
Y2K Lawsuits Drying Up as Companies Seek Dismissal
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The drive to force the property insurance industry to help defray the millions of dollars businesses spent on compu...
LOS ANGELES - Prominent criminal-defense attorney Gigi Gordon has resigned her position on a task force formed by the district...
The bankruptcy system is in need of reform. It is very important that some version of pending bankruptcy reform bills HR333 an...
SAN FRANCISCO - He grew up in Los Angeles. He's a lawyer. And he's about to take his place among the all-time rodeo greats. On...
While most commentators have focused on the changes to the consumer aspect of the reform bill, the new bankruptcy legislation ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 400 acres sitting in San Francisco Bay are too important to abandon, Treasure Island boss Annemarie Conroy...
LOS ANGELES - For the living, life goes on, an appellate court ruled when it struck a clause in a dead husband's will that tri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Imagine that by joining the State Bar, you could be forced into service as a court-appointed arbitrator for a ...
In Wheat v. Fraker, 130 S.E.2d 251 (Ga. 1963), a defendant appeals the trial court's denial of his motion for a new tri...
I was appointed to the bench in 1984. In 1990, for a variety of reasons, I left judging and became a lawyer again. This sojour...
Should out-of-state attorneys, not licensed by the State Bar of California, be able to practice law in California? The questio...
LOS ANGELES - Chalk one up for the steelhead trout. Los Angeles County certified a deficient environmental impact report and w...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a new state budget Thursday and, while his cuts to the judiciary were mostly minor, an exp...
In 1984, two of the most powerful lobbies in America, pharmaceuticals and tobacco, were confronted with a shared mercantile cr...
The court held that the electronic versions of the articles were new, separate reproductions and publications of the individua...