Firm Watch
Baker & McKenzie: PARTNERS CUT LOOSE AT MEETING IN SAN FRANCISCO
By Staff Writer
The groans were heard all the way to the Windy City. Christine Lagarde, the Paris-based executive committee chair of Chicago's...
Firm Watch
McCutchen Doyle: TECH LAWYER FINDS HAVEN FOR NICHE LITIGATION WORK
By Staff Writer
Technology litigator Mark Slater recently found his business booming in the wrong direction. He'd just started working at the ...
A new copyright bill deals with whether sound recordings are "works made for hire." ...
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Nossaman Guthner: FINANCING GOES AHEAD FOR FOUR-MILE VEGAS MONORAIL
By Staff Writers
GM Mirage Inc. and Park Place Entertainment Corp. have completed a $650 million financing deal for the construction and operat...
Your script doesn't have to be novel. Just take a formula that's worked before and try it again. It was always a success for A...
Firm Watch
Kinsella Boesch: PRACTICE'S MID-LIFE CRISIS BRINGS NEW LOS ANGELES ALLIANCES
By Staff Writer
Lawyers at Kinsella Boesch Fujikawa & Towle, an entertainment litigation powerhouse in Century City, recently called it qu...
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday refused to allow lawyers for accused Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Mateo County prosecutor Allison Dondero was not licensed by the State Bar when she prosecuted a def...
An orderly, suspected of hastening the deaths of 40 to 50 terminal patients at a Glendale hospital between 1989 and 1997 and n...
NEWPORT BEACH - Ramon Rossi Lopez, a partner with Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman, Skikos & Polos in Irvine, has been appoi...
A young woman testifying Friday in the trial of four Los Angeles police officers charged in the first corruption prosecution t...
Litigation
Families of EgyptAir 990 Passengers Sue Airline
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - The families of five Orange County passengers who died in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 last year sued in feder...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Foundation Honors Decade Of Philanthropy
By Tamara Scott
The Foundation of the State Bar of California celebrated its 10th anniversary Thursday with a gala in the grand ballroom of Ce...
Intellectual Property
Piety Plays No Part in Pie Wars Sending Julian Bakers to Court
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The tiny mountain town of Julian is celebrating the annual Apple Festival and tourists are flocking there for a ta...
An attorney who recently won a reversal of a Los Angeles Superior Court judge's ruling contends that the jurist fabricated a k...
Law Practice
Patient Attacked in Hospital Loses Negligent-Security Case
By Matthew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - After spending the night in a Fontana hospital room recovering from ankle surgery, Stephen Solomon awoke to a...
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Fenwick & West: SANTA CLARA'S EXODUS TAKES WEB-HOSTING GLOBALCENTER
By Staff Writers
Exodus Communications Inc. has acquired the Web-hosting business GlobalCenter from rival Global Crossing Ltd. The stock deal i...
A dispute between USA and Viacom over the rights to World Wrestling Federation programming comes as close to a rumble as many ...
Protection against corporate espionage involves a combination of physical security resources and legal strategies. ...
Lawyers look at human conflict in terms of rights, obligations and remedies. Although facts are important, client problems are...
Insurance
Insurance Adjusters Prevent Personal Injury Settlements
By Contributing Writer
The favoritism shown to insurance companies is a very serious problem with the California legal system. I am a paralegal and l...
In a decision with far-reaching consequences, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that mere passive migration of ha...
Prior inventors have a new defense against patent infringement. ...
No one can ever say that John B. Marcin doesn't prepare for his cases. While representing the widow of a driver who was killed...
California Lawyers for the Arts will present a workshop in Santa Monica Nov. 1 on "Freedom of Expression." ...
Medical malpractice attorney proves anesthesiologist had much less experience in pediatric surgery than he admitted during fir...
He's a bear of a man who looks as if he could play tackle for the Green Bay Packers. She's petite and demure in her designer o...
Sometimes it seems as if small-firm lawyers are being papered to death. Time is never on their side as opposing attorneys try ...
Two State Bar Court judges have been reappointed by the California Supreme Court. The high court named Ronald Stovitz of San F...
The Eye caught up with Bert Fields on Thursday, and the all-star litigator has this message for all the folks still chomping o...