Providing justice to victims of elder abuse requires taking the fight beyond individual cases and increasing awareness, foster...
The heir who did not receive or share in the proceeds of the bank account may have a cause of action - against the attorney, n...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue has sponsored a clothing drive to benefit an organizati...
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Klein & Martin: ONLINE SCHOOL SECURES ITS SECOND ROUND OF FUNDING
By Staff Writers
E-learning company Medschool.com has secured $26 million in second-round funding. Founded in 1999, the Santa Monica company de...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Madison: PARTNERS VOTE BY WIDE MARGIN TO BACK MERGER
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and New York's Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts formally sealed their decis...
Firm Watch
Wilson Sonsini: STARTUP FINANCE EXPERT TAKES ON FINANCIAL POST
By Staff Writer
The cross-fertilization between the corporate world and Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati continues with the No...
Firm Watch
Sonnenschein Nath: FRANCHISE LAWYER JOINS FROM FOLEY & LARDNER
By Staff Writer
Chicago-based Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal continues to expand its Los Angeles office and expects two to four as-yet-unna...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place for James M. Shields, retired managing attorney of CNA. Shields, 66, died Sun...
Caught in a crushing nexus of state and federal criminal laws, a growing number of women convicted of crimes have had their pa...
Firm Watch
Jones Day: LOS ANGELES OFFICE MOVES TWO PARTNERS IN, TWO OUT
By Staff Writer
The Los Angeles office of Cleveland's largest law firm, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, won a few and lost a few in its partner ...
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, ...