If you live in California, it would be hard to miss the copious evidence revealing that there are numerous public schools in C...
LOS ANGELES - In his final budget proposal, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan boosts the amount of money set aside for emer...
Courts apply jurisdictional principles to international Web site defendants with concern for the additional burden on such def...
LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles-area schoolchildren have been selected as the Southern California winners of the fifth annual...
Technology & Science
Retail Price Controls Cause Escalating Electricity Costs
By Columnist
To hear California's politicians tell it, heartless power generators are the cause of the high price of West Coast electricity...
Motions in limine are extremely effective tools for trial advocacy and time management. When properly utilized, they permit mo...
LOS ANGELES - Andrew Herbert Benedict Landay, president of the Lawyers Club of Los Angeles and an arbitrator with the Los Ange...
For a half-century, the American Bar Association has been asked by every administration, Republican and Democratic alike, to e...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who allegedly sent threatening e-mail messages to opposing counsel in an egg price-fixing case he file...
LOS ANGELES - In contrast to the city of Los Angeles' recent rosy fiscal forecast, Los Angeles County, burdened with soaring e...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys in the explosive parole case of convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz squabbled Monday over whether al...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies did nothing to prevent planned attacks by Latino inmates on African-Americ...
SAN FRANCISCO - After two years of courting potential merger partners, San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen is ...
Government
Energy Companies Seek Out-of-State Stone-Age Judge to Rule on Motions
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Help Wanted: Natural gas companies and electric utilities embroiled in class actions brought by pesky California...
SANTA ANA - Reversing the sex-crime conviction of a former vice principal who fathered two children with a student, an appeals...
Among actions announced Monday, April 23, 2001 by the justices were:
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, dissenting in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), predicted that there would be "...
Gary N. Stern has joined Gordon Edelstein Krepack Grant Felton & Goldstein, a 13-attorney personal injury and employment t...
Sharon Kinsey has been called many things, some of them nice, some of them not so nice. But whatever friends and detractors sa...
James Lopes, a partner of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, has been inducted as a Fellow to the American Colle...
Firm Watch
McDermott Will: CHICAGO PRACTICE BUILDS WEST COAST I.P. OUTPOST
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles recruiter Larry Watanabe says Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery aims to build the finest intellectual property ...
Entertainment & Sports
Money-For-Silence Deals Belong to the Experienced
By Contributing Writer
Convicted lawyer John J. Reiner was on the phone. It must have been a tough call to make. "I don't want you to feel badly beca...
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, which is known for its strong hospitality practice, will host its 11th annual hotel confe...
Firm Watch
Morrison & Foerster: MANAGEMENT CALLS HALT TO SALARIES IN LOCK STEP
By Karen Coleman
After holding out for four months, Morrison & Foerster announced April 9 that the San Francisco firm doesn't have any 2001...
Firm Watch
McCutchen Doyle: THREE PATENT ATTORNEYS ABANDON SHIP LAST MONTH
By Karen Coleman
In what everyone says are two unrelated departures, a pair of patent litigators and a patent prosecutor from the Palo Alto off...
Solo and Small Firms
ANDERSON & KRIGER RECRUITS HOMEOWNER-GROUPS LAWYER
By Staff Writer
San Diego's Anderson & Kriger, a firm specializing in construction defect and homeowners associations, has recruited Kenne...
The Los Angeles business litigation shop of Fairbank & Vincent has recruited Richard Gluck as of-counsel. Gluck, former ge...
Entertainment & Sports
Tactical Error May Haunt Lawyer in Franchise Case
By Contributing Writer
Larry Stein of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan had a burning question last Monday before a hearing in Los Angeles federal...
Townsend and Townsend and Crew has recruited three lateral associates for its San Francisco headquarters: Nancy Tompkins, Slad...
Transactions
Farella Braun: RAVENSWOOD OF SONOMA GOES TO NEW YORK RIVAL
By Victoria Newman
Constellation Brands Inc. will acquire Ravenswood Winery Inc. for $148 million cash. Fairport, New York's Constellation brands...