Firm Watch
Coudert Brothers: THREE LITIGATORS ABANDON SAN JOSE'S HOPKINS & CARLEY FOR SMALLER SHOP
By Karen Coleman
A trio of litigation partners filed out of the San Jose's Hopkins & Carley and into the local office of New York's Coudert...
California's nonparental visitation statute recently was tested by the California Court of Appeal in Punsly. ...
Firm Watch
Manatt Phelps: Palo Alto Counsel Joins L.A. Government Group
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips added two new partners in April, one from in-house and one who is returning after a ...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: East-West Combo Enjoy Celebrating Centennial
By Karen Coleman
The more than 2,000 lawyers and staff of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop celebrated their first 100 days as a new firm on A...
Transactions
Morgan Lewis: Company Powers Up With Twin Enron Acquisitions
By Victoria Newman
Black Hills Energy Capital Inc. has bought two Enron North America Corp. subsidiaries: Fountain Valley Power and E-Next A Equi...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Newport Beach attorney Hallack Watts Hoag, former president of the Legal Aid ...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that prosecutors cannot use civil discovery laws to seek an additi...
International
Ex-Lawyer Faces Prison in Faked-Death Insurance Scheme
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles attorney faces up to eight years in state prison and a $200,000 fine if convicted of partic...
SAN FRANCISCO - Computer technology has leveled the playing field for sole practitioners and small town lawyers, according to ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz may depose a Los Angeles Times reporter who allegedly heard ...
Criminal
Judge Rejects Juvenile-Justice Challenge, Arraigns Santee Teen
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge rejected a constitutional challenge to the mandatory trial of a 15-year-old boy as an adult because of his...
HEMET - Keith Henson spent last summer brandishing placards and picketing outside a Church of Scientology film production faci...
SAN DIEGO - James Anderson Sullivan, a lawyer who spent most of his career in the Los Angeles area, died in Jacksonville, Fla....
Government
Prosecutor Will Head Sheriff's New Independent Review Office
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Michael Gennaco, who led civil rights prosecutions in the U.S. attorney's office for the past six years, was nam...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists say a Sacramento judge's ruling restores some significant clout to the state's basic statute...
FRESNO - Civil rights attorney Catherine F. Campbell and her colleagues tried to maintain a professional demeanor throughout t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Since he founded what is widely considered to be the first independent, small environmental law firm in 1976, ...
LOS ANGELES - His journey to a judgeship took more than 40 years, but at the end of that road, Superior Court Judge Richard E....
There is a story about a man looking for a dollar bill he had lost on the street. When a friend came along to help and asked w...
Another business-method patent - this one involving telephones as well as the Internet - is again raising questions about the ...
Public Interest
Legal Community Plays a Key Role in Ending Sexual Assault
By Columnist
Last year in California, more than 31,000 individuals reported being victims of sexual assault. While this number is alarming,...
It's another sweltering summer day, and California's energy crisis has caused rolling blackouts up and down the state. When th...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Thursday promoted two of his top deputies, Lawrence E. Mason and John Allen. M...
The California Court of Appeal recently issued a far-reaching employment-law decision involving wage-hour law. In Bell v. F...
If you've got some time to waste, Bay Area resident Gene Cutler can help you do it. He created a Web site, www.smalltime.com, ...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif dealt a blow to the California offices of Zelle Hofm...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge on Thursday sentenced former Mexican police officer turned hit man Marcos Ranjel to lif...
Medical malpractice suits usually are prosecuted and defended by seasoned lawyers. And invariably, medical experts will testif...
Despite the weakened economy, lawyers continue to trade in Perry Mason ambitions for Bill Gates aspirations. Just ask Glenn We...
Oops, you weren't paying attention and you woke up on the other side of 35 (the harshly arbitrary cutoff for highest reproduct...