Entertainment & Sports
Nuttiness, Neurosis and Self-Indulgence Flavor Litigation Fruitcake
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - OK, movie fans, ditch the popcorn. It's time to break out the litigation fruitcake and have a big, hearty slice....
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Dutch Chemical Firm Agrees to $12M Price-Fixing Fine
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Antitrust fighters opened a new wave of price-fixing prosecutions Wednesday with a Dutch chemical giant's agr...
Front Page
Bankrupt Pacific Gas Gets OK to Resume Cleanup of Hazardous Waste
By Dennis Pfaff
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. received permission Tuesday to spend $22 million a year on hazardous waste cleanups, which the c...
LOS ANGELES - In a settlement that preserves a library of criminal-case archives, the Los Angeles County district attorney's o...
LOS ANGELES - Ten years after a Los Angeles County health department employee alleged his superiors retaliated against him for...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday honored a team of city representatives for its tireless...
To show the defendant's complicated scheme to ground his client's satellite development deal, Southern California attorney Sta...
Scott Markus is a "recovering lawyer," he says. A full-time mediator for the last nine years, Markus, 45, gave up law practice...
As an attorney who aspires to be "master of all facts," Stanley M. Gibson immersed himself in the arcane world of satellite de...
Large punitive-damage awards against corporations are the bane of civil defendants, but jurors mete them out. Knowing what pun...
Corporate law departments struggle to set and maintain reasonable litigation budgets. Mediation may be the key to success. ...
When business litigators pick a mediator, do they look for generalists or do they insist on subject-matter expertise? The resp...
A review of the various arbitration rules establishes the very limited discovery that is generally available to the parties. ...
Many lawyers believe that moral neutrality is required by all lawyers all the time and that we may never enforce our moral vie...
Parker H. Bagley of Milbank Tweed's Los Angeles office won an injunction in a trademark infringement trial. Physicians Form...
LOS ANGELES - After a four-month investigation, the state attorney general's office has declined to file charges against two O...
LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge has dismissed some charges against two Arabs facing deportation for their support of the Po...
SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe announced Tuesday that longtime transportation industry executive David M...
SACRAMENTO - Consumer advocates threw their hands up in disgust Tuesday after the financial industry killed a second bill tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company received permission Tuesday to spend $22 million a year on hazardous waste c...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Thursday for Dean Stern, a partner in the litigation department of Gibson, Dunn & C...
Government
Official Labels DA's Action Politically Motivated
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A district attorney investigator whom San Bernardino District Attorney Dennis Stout recently placed on admini...
Does Business & Professions Code Section 17200 provide needed protections for consumers? Or does it limit consumer choices...
Criminal
Bill to Restrict Facial Scanning Defeated, but Will Be Back
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - As fans poured into this year's Super Bowl, police in Tampa, Fla., secretly scanned the faces of the game's 100,...
Law Practice
Attorney Manages Fleet of 300 Racing Greyhounds
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - When Orange County lawyer H. Dean Steward agreed to represent the president of a real estate firm accused of frau...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a triple-murderer's 1978 death sentence because t...
Appellate Practice
Ex-Wife Must Give Up Lotto Winnings, Panel Says
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - It's too bad that Denise Rossi didn't win Saturday's $141 million state lottery. It would have taken the sting o...
Papa John's lost its bragging rights when it coupled its slogan with misleading statements of specific differences in ingredie...
Outcomes of evenly matched trials often depend on the credibility of witnesses. ...
It is a fact of law firm life that one's worth as a lawyer, and as a person, is measured not by competence or character but ra...