William Hanley relishes representing the little guy. "When you're in the courtroom, there's just you and the witness," Hanley ...
On the day attorneys are admitted to practice law, they swear under oath to provide zealous advocacy to all clients. In Califo...
Attorney David J. Fuller looks out the window of his Judicate West office in Santa Ana toward the freeways that he and his Sub...
Sacramento is on the verge of tinkering again with the laws governing prenuptial agreements. And if it does, the winners won't...
Most of us have had the misfortune of being forced to submit to various parties' documents that were incomplete, incorrect or ...
When B.F. Goodrich Co. asserted some irregularities and held back $2.4 million from a deal with one of William B. Hanley's cli...
Adam D. H. Grant of Los Angeles' Christa & Jackson won a summary judgment motion in a workplace accident case.Newman v....
In 'Estate of Griswold,' the California Supreme Court took up the question of inheritance from or through an illegitimate chil...
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for Elizabeth King, an attorney with Bryan Cave in the firm's Santa Monica office. King die...
In July 2000, Division Six of the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued its decision in Amelco v. City of Thousand Oaks...
LOS ANGELES - A fired assistant district attorney in Orange County has sued in federal court to get his job back, alleging he ...
BIG SKY, Mont.- For the first time since its creation nearly a decade ago, the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award ha...
LOS ANGELES - David Ziskind, a Los Angeles labor lawyer who helped desegregate the city's Fire Department and chaired a local ...
LOS ANGELES - Terree Bowers, a widely respected former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and war-crimes prosecutor, will be the chi...
Intellectual Property
E-Book Decoder Is Focus of First Criminal Prosecution
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A Russian programmer has been arrested, accused of distributing a program that defeats copyright protection on...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has sued the state, seeking millions of dollars in exchange for the bundle of ene...
Immigration
Union Chief Calls Guest-Worker Idea 'Inherently Self-Defeating'
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - As the international convention of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union got under way Tuesday in Santa...
SAN FRANCISCO - A new state law requiring legal counsel for children in dependency proceedings will tax already overworked fam...
Construction defect cases involving residential real estate are the result of broken homes. It is a product placed into the st...
A lawyer is just wasting time if deposition questions do not elicit useful information. Attorneys need deposition flight plans...
'Bartnicki' addresses the situation in which a newsroom receives something from unknown sources that editors recognize as auth...
Senior attorneys in the job market must be prepared for questions about their client base. ...
LOS ANGELES - The family of criminal-defense attorney Barry L. Levin, a former Los Angeles police officer, has established a m...
SAN FRANCISCO - On the corner of Pasteur Avenue and a dirt road, in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the green and red "Un...
Immunity often is considered the most desirable of defenses because it is 'an entitlement not to stand trial or face the other...
Any day now, a U.S. appeals court in Texas could decide in U.S. v. Emerson whether to invalidate a federal statute on S...
LOS ANGELES - Stung by a $295,000 settlement to a man who claimed he was falsely imprisoned by deputies on a botched drug stak...
SAN FRANCISCO - Has California become too SLAPP-happy? Division Two of the San Francisco-based 1st District Court of Appeal se...
SAN FRANCISCO - A month after Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's last labor and employment practice head died suddenly in the fi...
The ampersand is elegant and difficult to write, which lends an exalted quality to a firm name. ...