LOS ANGELES - Jody "Babydol" Gibson, the fledgling pop singer who is in state prison for running a high-class call-girl servic...
Recently, the worlds of professional sports and civil rights law collided in the case of PGA Tour v. Martin. Because th...
Alan I. Rothenberg has spent the last 37 years accomplishing a lot as both an attorney and a businessman. He presided over the...
The right to a jury is a valued right -- but at the same time, considerations of judicial resources, of the parties' expense a...
SAN JOSE - Quashing speculation about his political future, Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy says he will r...
SAN FRANCISCO - The three key players in the Scorpion Technologies securities fraud case have agreed to plead guilty to a cons...
SACRAMENTO - In a dramatic turn of events, a trial judge on Monday dismissed the criminal charges supporting the state Supreme...
SAN FRANCISCO - A public memorial observance will be held in San Francisco for Justice Stanley Mosk, who died June 19 at age 8...
SACRAMENTO - In a closely watched case that pits gender equality against religious freedom, a state appellate court held Monda...
SAN FRANCISCO - The beleaguered local office of Baker & McKenzie has lost another top partner with at least four others ex...
LOS ANGELES - Suspension of disbelief, while a necessity for most Hollywood films, should not apply to Hollywood advertising, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A malpractice action against a criminal defense attorney cannot prevail unless the defendant's conviction is r...
Government
City Longs to Ascend Beyond the Buzzards, Fly Into Fascinating Future
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - New Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn flew into office on Monday on the wings of metaphors about birds, bumblebees...
LOS ANGELES - A $100,000 settlement for a foster child who was raped, sexually exploited, beaten and emotionally abused as an ...
Judges and Judiciary
Controversial Family-Division Assignment Challenges Judge
By Contributing Writer
There are lines in the moral and political world that law ignores at its peril. Cases illustrating that point, everywhere toda...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court Officials Plan Meeting After Second Suicide
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and Superior Court officials will discuss how to prevent further suicides today after a fatal...
Firm Watch
Murchison & Cumming: MEDIATOR BECOMES FIRST LATERAL PARTNER AT SHOP
By Karen Coleman
The Los Angeles litigators at Murchison & Cumming brought William DelHagen into the partnership last Monday. DelHagen, a L...
Firm Watch
Lewis D'Amato: KNAPP MARSH SPLIT BRINGS SEVEN LAWYERS INTO RANKS
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard is adding seven lawyers, all from that city's Knapp Marsh Jones & Doran...
When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers issued seven new general top-level domain names in November, it t...
Summer associates are well-schooled in the obvious "don'ts" for their first season at a law firm: Put that whiskey flask away ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a break from corporate litigation, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison attorneys Tim Meltzer and Michael Ad...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: IRVINE'S INTERPORE WILL BUY VIRGINIA MEDICAL COMPANY
By Victoria Newman
Irvine's Interpore International Inc. has agreed to acquire Leesburg, Va.'s American OsteoMedix Corp. The cash-and-stock deal ...
Transactions
O'Melveny & Myers: FILM STARTUPS' MERGER AND FINANCING CLOSE TOGETHER
By Victoria Newman
Hypnotic Inc. and Nibblebox Inc., two startups that use the Internet to produce and distribute independent films, have merged....
Firm Watch
Shearman & Sterling: A THIRD MANAGING PARTNER WILL JOIN BAY AREA OFFICES
By Karen Coleman
John Wilson took over for Peter Lyons as the head of Shearman & Sterling 's San Francisco and Menlo Park offices Sunday. L...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: MENLO PARK'S INTERWAVE COMPLETES WIRELESS BUY
By Victoria Newman
Menlo Park's interWAVE Communications International Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Wireless Inc., a purchase it announc...
The way the legal system works in the United States is so different from everything that can possibly happen in legal life in ...
RIVERSIDE - A Welsh singer and his attorney have settled their lawsuit alleging the Welsh Choir of Southern California was ins...
Firm Watch
Gray Cary: WILSON SECURITIES EXPERT JOINS LITIGATION PRACTICE
By Karen Coleman
Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich named securities litigator David Priebe special counsel June 20. He will work in ...
LOS ANGELES - The 15 attorneys at Century City's Klein & Martin merged with the local office of Shaw Pittman Sunday, bring...