SANTA ANA - Saying they don't know what happened to dozens of their frozen embryos, a Florida couple has sued the Regents of t...
SACRAMENTO - A commission studying ballot initiative reforms plans to recommend voters be given several options to change the ...
The Yale Club of San Diego has given the distinguished alumnus award to Pamela J. Naughton, a local partner at Sheppard Mullin...
The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers will install new fellow Judith Droz Keyes, 55, at its annual meeting in Chicago on...
Transactions
Riordan & McKenzie: TORRANCE DIALYSIS COMPANY RAISES CASH WITH NOTE SALE
By Victoria Newman
Dialysis-center operator DaVita Inc. has closed the sale of $225 million in 9 1/4 percent senior subordinated notes. Torrance-...
Transactions
Gibson Dunn: SANTA CLARA'S INTEL BUYS NEW YORK SOFTWARE FIRM
By Victoria Newman
Chipmaker Intel Corp. has bought software-management company Cognet Corp. The companies have not disclosed the value of the ca...
Bob Gunderson has been vilified by law-firm managers and deified by associates. But the voluble co-founder of the 125-lawyer, ...
Firm Watch
Silver Freedman: JEFFER MANGELS TAX MAN CHOOSES SMALL-FIRM LIFE
By Karen Coleman
The Century City business boutique Silver & Freedman welcomed partner Mark Sieke into its tax group on May 1. Silver &...
Malissa Hathaway McKeith's latest deal is like the Hollywood blockbuster, "Erin Brockovich." Just like Brockovich, the Loeb &a...
Firm Watch
Squire Sanders: SAN FRANCISCO PARTNERS DESERT BAKER & MCKENZIE
By Karen Coleman
Meanwhile, as Squire Sanders & Dempsey was losing two lawyers in Los Angeles, the firm was adding two more in San Francisc...
The court's holding should greatly simplify and, as a result, lessen the expense of documenting security interests in patents....
Remember Silicon Valley? The land of Viva Bob Gunderson!, lavish retreats in Pebble Bay and the $135,000 base salary? Things r...
Transactions
O'Melveny & Myers: USA STATIONS ADD TO EMPIRE OF SPANISH TELEVISION GIANT
By Victoria Newman
Univision Communications Inc. has acquired or has agreed to acquire interests in 17 television stations across the country fro...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: PAUL HASTINGS TRANSPLANT ADDS CORPORATE EXPERTISE
By Karen Coleman
Anna Graves, formerly of-counsel in the Los Angeles home office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, has moved her practice...
Tampa's Holland & Knight found some unlikely Thespians among its San Francisco lawyers. Litigation partner Charles Coleman...
LOS ANGELES - To Bob Chanin, lead counsel for the National Education Association, the question of whether school vouchers are ...
SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge will rule soon on whether the State Bar must pay as much as $2 million in fees ...
LOS ANGELES - When DeAngelo Brooks died on Jan. 20, he is believed to have become the first child murdered in the Los Angeles ...
Appellate Practice
Justices Produce Sparking Prose, Plenty of Fireworks in 2000-2001
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - At the risk of belaboring the dramatic case of Bush v. Gore, the following were what I considered the best...
Communications
Actor Can't Collect for Publication of Altered Photo
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Actor Dustin Hoffman cannot protect himself from a fashion update at the hands of L.A. Magazine, using digital...
LOS ANGELES - The pretty woman with closely cropped hair peers through wide, expressive eyes as she recalls growing up with im...
Section 104(b) of the Bankruptcy Code provides for automatic adjustments for inflation every three years to some of its provis...
SAN FRANCISCO - A government attorney accused Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Thursday of trying to use its bankruptcy to avoi...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today and Saturday for Carl Joseph Schuck, a retired Los Angeles trial attorney whose o...
SAN FRANCISCO - In order to keep intact a jury that is threatening to disintegrate and cause a mistrial, San Francisco deputy ...
LOS ANGELES - The Compton Courts Scholarship Fund has awarded scholarships to 24 high-school graduates and college students. J...
Entertainment & Sports
Suit Accuses Magic Mountain of Racial Profiling
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - In the second potential class action filed against Six Flags Magic Mountain in a month, a group of minority men ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Attorney Nets $425,000 in Fees in Rights Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A San Jose lawyer who represented a former city attorney's office investigator in a successful civil rights lawsuit...
'Deputy Duh' admits that defense attorneys' duties can be honorable as well as necessary. ...
LOS ANGELES - A civil-rights activist and former editor of the L.A. Focus newspaper filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit Thurs...