Criminal
An Angry Olson Renews Guilty Plea, Admits to Aiding, Abetting
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Reluctantly and angrily, one-time Symbionese Liberation Army associate Sara Jane Olson admitted Tuesday that she...
WASHINGTON - Computer hackers can be tried in federal court like mobsters, thanks to the new anti-terrorism law, which defines...
SAN BERNARDINO - They won't be camping. But next month, 120 kids at one of California's most crowded juvenile lockups will be ...
Adjudicative hearings are held before administrative agencies and administrative-law judges affecting a range of important int...
LOS ANGELES - For the second month in a row, Lyon & Lyon's San Diego office has lost an intellectual-property attorney to ...
In "The Last Castle," Eugene Irwin, a prisoner played by Robert Redford, challenges his captor to a game of chess with real so...
For most lawyers, the idea of paying for their children's education is enough to bring upon a panic attack. Luckily, "529" pla...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sherman Kassof rejects as a shopworn clich the oft-cited example of chutzpah: the boy who murders his parents,...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan warned federal authorities Monday to "lay off marijuana clubs...
SAN FRANCISCO - Converting a Supreme Court victory into a social reality can hurt. The first wave of civil rights activists kn...
LOS ANGELES - Union officials have asked the attorney general's office to launch an investigation into whether the Los Angeles...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case significant to earthquake victims, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that insurers must re-o...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen on Monday became the latest California law firm to launc...
Despite acknowledgment of "the egregious conduct of Japan during its conquest of Asia - conduct that included sexual slavery a...
The right to criticize or challenge government actions without being punished for doing so is a basic American liberty, with r...
Law Practice
Experts Believe Olson Deal Couldn't Be Worse, Predict Life in Prison
By Garry Abrams
The deal that Sara Jane Olson, 54, copped to last week is so abysmal that the 1970s Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Olson s...
The resolution of 'Musser' and 'Beck' will have a profound effect on the liability theories that may be asserted against a Cal...
Firm Watch
Arter & Hadden: LITIGATOR SELECTED CHAIR OF EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
After five years as a team player, Sue Bendavid-Arbiv has become a team leader. The 38-year-old employment litigator in Arter ...
Keith Rooney, entertainment associate with Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro in Century City, speaks the language of Hollywo...
Entertainment & Sports
TV EXECUTIVE TAKES ON SONY FOR WRONGFUL TERMINATION
By Columnist
Synergy lives! Television executive Helene Michaels' lawsuit against her former employer channels the spooky vibes of China's ...
Firm Watch
Foley Lardner: CROSBY LOSES EMPLOYMENT LITIGATOR IN DOWNTOWN L.A.
By Staff Writer
A partner at Crosby Heafey Roach & May has left the firm's downtown Los Angeles office for Foley & Lardner in Century ...
Firm Watch
Richards Watson: BUNKER HILL CONTINUES TO HOUSE DOWNTOWN LAWYERS
By Staff Writer
Continuing a quarter-century tradition of being headquartered on Bunker Hill, Richards Watson & Gershon will open its new,...
Thousand Oaks' WellPoint Health Networks Inc. has agreed to purchase St. Louis-based RightCHOICE Managed Care Inc. in a stock-...
Transactions
Morrison Foerster: MAKER OF X-RAY PRODUCTS GETS ADDITIONAL FINANCING
By Columnist
Los Gatos-based NexRay Inc. has received $16.8 million in venture-capital financing from investors J.P. Morgan Chase & Co....
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Gray Cary: NETRATINGS BRINGS INTERNET TRAFFIC COMPANIES TO FOLD
By Columnist
Milpitas-based NetRatings Inc. has agreed to two transactions valued at a total of $87.6 million. In the first transaction, Ne...
As Jeff Pero describes it, his latest deal was definitely a case of hurry up and wait. A partner in the Menlo Park office of L...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman: SAN DIEGO GROUP MOVES TO NEW DIGS DOWN THE BLOCK
By Staff Writer
To accommodate its recent growth, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has said goodbye to its San Diego office and completed i...
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Brobeck Phleger: SAN DIEGO'S GENEFORMATICS SECURES A ROUND OF CAPITAL
By Columnist
San Diego-based GeneFormatics Inc. has raised $22 million in a third round of venture-capital financing. Investors included Ge...
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton and McKenna & Cuneo have ended their merger discussions, but neither has abandoned t...
Despite hiring a raft of lawyers that ranged from Los Angeles litigator John Gatti of White O'Connor Curry Gatti & Avanzad...