SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a jury has a very limited role when a defendant challenges pros...
Government
Vibrant Villaraigosa Rises From Rabble-Rousing to Run for Office
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Antonio Villaraigosa gripped-and-grinned his way through a crush of suits at a speechfest for Los Angeles' mayor...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kimiko Burton grew up boycotting grapes and protesting the Vietnam war with her father, the state assemblyman ...
LOS ANGELES - Chilled and damp from helping 100 environmentally concerned citizens clean debris from the Ballona Wetlands duri...
LOS ANGELES - Steve Soboroff enjoys standing out in a crowd, especially when the crowd includes five politicians vying for the...
Litigation
2nd District Revisits Clash of the Hollywood Titans to Measure Revenge
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Give back the $60 million! It will make us feel so good! That heartfelt and touching plea for gobs of money was ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Forcing defendants to waive their right to obtain potentially exculpatory evidence from the government as part...
Government
Becerra Hates Messiness, Which Is Why He Wants the Mayor's Job
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Congressman Xavier Becerra doesn't look like a perennial dark-horse candidate who defied his party twice to stag...
Government
Wachs Keeps Grass-Roots Ideals at Forefront of L.A. Politics
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Joel Wachs traces his calling to public service to the first grade, when he was a blackboard monitor. A member o...
LOS ANGELES - As the son of a legendary Los Angeles County supervisor who served for 40 years - and a man who himself has held...
Whatever you may think about Napster, the 9th Circuit's opinion dramatically and unwisely has upset the balance in an old disp...
Among actions announced Monday, March 5, 2001 by the justices were:
Today, Dicta presents the first in an occasional look at the most trenchant quotes culled from our news pages.
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place March 10 for retired business attorney and businessman Joseph Robert Vaughan. Vaughan, ...
Robert Townsend wasn't home for the holidays. Every time an American holiday rolled around in recent years, the 44-year-old pa...
Los Angeles-based real estate firm Pircher Nichols & Meek has hired a new law school graduate. Scott Hettema joins the fir...
San Diego's Higgs Fletcher & Mack has added a partner and an associate to its intellectual property group. Charles Reidelb...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Shearman & Sterling: Boston Scientific To Acquire San Diego Catheter Company
By Staff Writers
Boston Scientific Corp. will acquire Interventional Technologies Inc. in a cash transaction valued at $345 million. Boston Sci...
When Ivonne Prieto joined the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet in 1999, she told the Berkeley-based organization t...
Firm Watch
Orrick Herrington: Salaries For Associates Rise For Minimum Billers
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is the latest firm to announce that it isn't raising its associate base rate...
Firm Watch
Hughes & Luce: Austin Firm Opens First Texas Shop In Bay Area
By Staff Writer
While Dallas' Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld makes hay in Southern California, the Texas-only Hughes & Luce is putting...
Constitutional Law
Judge Lets Banker's Slander Suit Proceed
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - The banker who, as CEO, nursed Orange County through bankruptcy may proceed with his slander lawsuit against the C...
Friedman Heller & Enriquez has moved its Beverly Hills offices down the street. The new address is 433 Camden Road, Suite ...
Firm Watch
Gordon & Rees: San Diego Satellite Shop Grows With Boutique Buy
By Staff Writer
The San Diego office of San Francisco's Gordon & Rees got another boost with the Jan. 5 acquisition of a local corporate b...
Most class actions are won or lost during the earliest stages of the litigation, when the trial court determines whether to ce...
Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has added a Los Angeles lawyer for added kick in its entertainment group. Step...
San Diego's Hayes Simpson Greene has recruited three new attorneys for its Newport Beach office. Douglas Smith and Thomas Arno...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jayne W. Williams, the longtime Oakland city attorney shown the door by voters last year, has been appointed t...
The story of Walnut Creek's Miller Starr & Regalia is contained in a book. A series of books, actually. The story begins i...
A sudden cloudburst that flooded streets and soaked shoes in downtown San Francisco didn't dampen the spirits of those attendi...