Tom Paschall, a corporate associate in Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy's Los Angeles office, vowed never to be defenseless a...
Retired Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Sharp Whitmore died at 83 of congestive heart failure. Whitmore, a labor and employ...
Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a nonprofit, public-interest law firm, has honored Gibson Dunn & Crutcher as "volu...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association has awarded the Shattuck-Price Award for distinguished service to John Brinsley, a part...
Firm Watch
Lillick & Charles: NEW YORK'S NIXON PEABODY ACQUIRES BAY AREA VETERAN
By Karen Coleman
San Francisco's 104-year-old Lillick & Charles succumbed to the East-West law firm merger trend Aug. 1, when it became the...
Transactions
Morrison & Foerster: SANWA AND TOKAI BANKS FINALIZE 'UNITED' MERGER
By Victoria Newman
Sanwa Bank of California and Tokai Bank California merged last month under a new name, United California Bank. The parties did...
The law of statutes of limitations continues to evolve in California. For decades, the general rule was that the limitations p...
Large Firms
WILSON SONSINI PARTNER WILL SUPERVISE FTC'S LITIGATION
By Contributing Writer
The Federal Trade Commission has named Susan Creighton, a partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, deputy...
Transactions
Gibson Dunn: IRVINE'S EXULT WILL RAISE FUNDS IN STOCK OFFERING
By Victoria Newman
Exult Inc., a human-resource services company based in Irvine, is selling 10 million shares of common stock. In a registration...
The Los Angeles law firm of Hahn & Bolson has joined the International Business Law Consortium based in Austria. The Inter...
Judge Warren J. Ferguson used Santa Ana's Public Law Center's annual Volunteer Recognition Dinner to offer a eulogy for legen...
Solo and Small Firms
'CIVIL-PROCEDURE GEEK' JOINS STATE BAR RULES COMMITTEE
By Contributing Writer
Kathleen A. McKinley, an associate in the Richmond office of Walnut Creek's Archer Norris and a self-described "civil-procedur...
Firm Watch
Winston & Strawn: LOCAL OFFICE GETS ROOM TO GROW WITH NEW L.A. LEASE
By Karen Coleman
The Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn will stretch out in new digs this winter. The six-office Chicago firm lists 22 ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Head Urges Death-Penalty Reform in Letter to Lawmakers
By Don De Benedictis
CHICAGO - Calling the death-penalty system in America "unacceptable," the president of the American Bar Association urged cong...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge, prosecutor and defense attorney traveled to the Sacramento area Friday to preserve a dyi...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan's liberal views on drug laws have got him into another awkward situation. T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurers that fell victim to a massive fraud scam in the so-called "Alliance" scandal of the 1980s may recover...
Litigation
Phillip Morris Wants New Seeks Relief From $3 Billion Jury Award
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - When lawyers for Philip Morris walk out of Superior Court today, they hope to be rid of an unwelcome distinction...
Government
Holtzman Will Not Seek City Attorney Job; 5 Still in Race
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - After months of private reflection and external consultation, Jonathan V. Holtzman, a top deputy in the San Fr...
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission was created by reformers, but now the political watchdog stands acc...
The Legislature of California has made it clear that courts generally are supposed to order either arbitration or mediation....
The significance of the 'Musser' decision is that it creates uncertainty that did not previously exist. ...
WASHINGTON - Federal judges and legal experts are concerned about a new White House effort aimed at increasing federal gun-cri...
Two appellate decisions suggest that notwithstanding Cornette , design immunity may at last fall firmly within the public enti...
Recently, the public got a rare glimpse at the Draconian measures that our government is taking in a desperate effort to make ...
LOS ANGELES - Elliot J. Safirstein, the well-known external relations assistant to Dean Karen Lash of the University of Southe...
LOS ANGELES - It wasn't the most formal trial that acting Judge Janet Jackson had ever seen. The defense attorney was decked o...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher plans to open an office in Munich, joining the growing number of l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Muslim inmates at a California prison cannot be punished for missing work to attend Friday religious services,...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday scheduled an Aug. 13 contempt hearing for a prosecutor after lear...