Linda Meyer's $7,000-a-day mediation fees are not typical. Turning pro bono experience into professional prestige takes initia...
SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services will be held today for George Hillman Norton, a well-known family law attorney and long-tim...
Firm Watch
McKenna & Cuneo: SAN DIEGO SATELLITE PICKS PAIR FROM HILLYER & IRWIN
By Staff Writer
The San Diego office of Washington, D.C.-based firm, McKenna & Cuneo, added another pair of lawyers from its shrinking nei...
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Tomlinson Zisko: LOS GATOS' NETFUEL NABS $3 MILLION IN FINANCING
By Staff Writers
NetFuel Inc. has secured $3 million in financing. The 6-month-old company raised $2.5 million from Chicago's Citadel Investmen...
Judges and Judiciary
L.A. Superior Court Subverts Intent of Labor Measure
By Columnist
One of the main purposes of the recently passed Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, SB2140, is to provide ci...
In San Diego, it really is 72 degrees all the time - ask anyone. "I'm looking out my window at a 72 degree day," says Neil Dym...
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission has ended its two-year review of arcane conflict-of-interest regul...
Successful lawyer Neil Carrey has expanded his community service by fund-raising for pediatric cancer research and treatment, ...
Employers need to take steps to combat the heightened danger of sexual harassment during workplace festivities. ...
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Michael Best: SKIN CARE FIRM OBAGI SEES SUNNY FUTURE WITH ITS IPO
By Staff Writers
Obagi Medical Products Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $75 million. Los Angeles' Obagi Medical Product...
SACRAMENTO - An undercurrent of panic is spreading among political law attorneys and county election workers as they try to f...
LOS ANGELES - Services have been conducted for former longtime Los Angeles attorney Frederick I. Marr. Marr, a member of the f...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Friday sentenced a teacher-turned-law student to 4 1/2 years in jail for roughing up a live...
LOS ANGELES - Friends and colleagues described U.S. Rep. Julian C. Dixon, who died Friday of an apparent heart attack, as a le...
LOS ANGELES - Companies that acquired a silicone breast implant manufacturer whose insurers went bankrupt cannot seek indemnit...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp partner George Borkowski has taken a leave from the firm to se...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Friday that a woman who told a grand jury that she saw O.J. Simpson drive away from the...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision that paves the way for a county worker to sue his employer also clarifies a long-sta...
LOS ANGELES - The families of two men killed earlier this year by horror film director Eric Red's runaway jeep when it crashed...
Public Interest
For the Person Who Has Very Little, a Law Suit is a True Gift
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't be surprised if the next homeless man you see is wearing an Armani suit. If he lives in San Francisco, ...
Remember the Ford Pinto, the egg-shaped economy ride that sometimes exploded when struck from behind? Mark Robinson does. He a...
Law Practice
Ex-Mail Clerk's Bias Suit Leads to a Career in Law
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
COSTA MESA - While K.D. Hughes toiled away as a mail clerk, she dreamed of becoming a lawyer. Then she went postal - in a lega...
SAN JOSE - In an apparently unprecedented effort to avert conflict of interest problems that could derail a major multidefenda...
Criminal
Jury Finds Police Didn't Violate Rights of Masturbating Lawyer
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The right to masturbate in public suffered a serious blow in federal court last week. At least that's how civil ...
LOS ANGELES - Leave 'em alone. That's the message sent by U.S. District Judge Lourdes Baird on Tuesday when she issued a tempo...
LOS ANGELES - After a 20-year reign as one of Los Angeles' premier entertainment firms, Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tob...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County District Attorney's office has put 43 killers on death row since California restored capita...
One popular criticism of arbitration is that the process is becoming more like court litigation and is not a cost-efficient an...
After 35 years, David Greenberg sees himself as a gladiator with a dash of anxiety. "Someone who can't fight his own fight has...
SAN JOSE - A Mountain View man has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit he brought against his former employer charging ...