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Luce Forward: PDG HIGHTOWER EVOLVES FROM SAN DIEGO MERGER
By Staff Writer
ML Hightower Inc. has merged with Product Design Group Inc. to create PDG Hightower. The deal is valued at $8 million. San Die...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eleven lawyers from the Los Angeles white-shoe firm of O'Melveny & Myers expect to open the firm's first S...
LOS ANGELES - The University of California, Los Angeles, has appointed Andrew Neighbour director of the Office of Intellectual...
This is not meant to be another apology for Bill Clinton. The sloppiness and appearance of ethical impropriety that marked his...
Firm Watch
Graham & James: BANKRUPTCY FILING SHOWS CREDITORS OWED $6 MILLION
By Staff Writer
According to schedules filed in its Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, Graham & James, which shuttered its doors last summer, owes...
Movies set in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian countries often show police officials asking civilians for their "papers" an...
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Pillsbury Winthrop: BANK ADDS 30 BRANCHES IN NEVADA AND NEW MEXICO
By Staff Writer
Bank of the West, a subsidiary of Hawaii's BancWest Corp., has acquired 30 branch offices in Nevada and New Mexico from First ...
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Cooley Godward: TAX MAN IS LATEST TO JOIN GROWING CORPORATE GROUP
By Staff Writer
After tripping through a few other businesses, tax lawyer Glen Kohl has gotten back into the law firm groove. He signed up wit...
Last week, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's...
LOS ANGELES - In a long-awaited ruling, a state appellate court underscored the importance of getting to the courtroom first w...
LOS ANGELES - Veteran immigration attorney Christine E. Stancill has taken a seat on the U.S. immigration court in Los Angeles...
LOS ANGELES - Court of Appeal Justice Charles Vogel administered the oath to seven new judges of the Los Angeles Superior Cour...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Alternate Public Defender is seeking sanctions against newly elected District Attorney Steve Coo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has taken first place honors for its Web site at a legal marketing award c...
SAN DIEGO - Attorney Daniel W. Cohen expected trouble when a judge appointed him to represent accused rapist Johnny Stanley. S...
LOS ANGELES - A Woodland Hills couple whose dream home turned into a money pit because the seller failed to disclose major str...
SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay judge has agreed that Ford Motor Co. will owe California consumers $3.5 billion if found liable fo...
Government
Upland Officer Sues for Right to Choose Lawyer in Interrogation
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - An Upland police officer is suing his employer and the city, alleging that the police department's internal...
Guests in North America's biggest hotel chains, from Four Seasons to Marriott, will be able to select compact disc music throu...
The 9th Circuit became the first federal appellate court to rule that the right to Brady material cannot be waived through a p...
LOS ANGELES - Nearly three years ago, two people from opposite worlds joined forces. They had nothing in common, except each h...
Public Interest
Mentorship Program Languishes Without Cooperation of County
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Matthew Monroe of Monroe & Shapiro decided to make public his previously confidential mentor relationship wi...
LOS ANGELES - Richard "Rick" Ross remembers his first beauty contest. It involved not babes in bathing suits but a seasoned ac...
LOS ANGELES - Appellate attorney Irving Greines sounds like the worst kind of libertine when he talks about the obsession that...
Technology & Science
Offshore Sites Brace for Academy Awards Betting
By Contributing Writer
Between the Oscars and the NCAA basketball tournament, March has become the pre-eminent month for office pools around the coun...
Decked in a baby-blue tank top, form-fitting blue jeans and lips shining with an extra coat of gloss, Sarineh Abnoosi, 17, cru...
A self-proclaimed 'smart gal with a fat bank account,' Love professes that she is 'ready to take this thing all the way to the...
As the markets continue to plummet despite the Federal Reserve's efforts this week, economists and market watchers are turning...
Despite what the stock market might say, we are in the midst of a New Network Economy. So it is important to understand some o...
For 21 years, I've been an ever-more-out lesbian. For almost 10 years, I've been engaged in legal advocacy, first on behalf of...