The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that trial courts may not use the class action certification process to weed out meritles...
Dicta: Recruiting Roundtable By Valerie A. Fontaine A major concern for attorneys is producing prodigious quantities of billab...
Retired trial attorney Richard Bernard Goethals Sr. died Monday in Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach following a lengthy illness...
Transactions
Ciscos Dang Puts E in Negotiations Ciscos Dang Brings Negotiations Online
By Liz Valsamis
After handling hundreds of deals in her career, attorney Van Dang never wants to handle another one. Not only that, she wants...
Civil Rights
Graham Just Latest Victim of Bush's Texas Killing Fields
By Contributing Writer
Forum: By Mike Farrell The smirk strikes again. Self-styled "compassionate conservative" presidential candidate George W. Bush...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Susanne S. Shaw was publicly admonished Monday by the Commission on Judicial Pe...
SAN DIEGO - An internal report commissioned by District Attorney Paul Pfingst has concluded that a prosecutor, earlier found i...
Obituary: Tax and corporate attorney Lawrence E. Irell, co-founder of Irell & Manella, has died. Irell died Thursday in Ra...
In a case likely to determine the extent gunmakers are liable for the damage their products cause, a Los Angeles police office...
Sending a man's hope of beating a drug rap up in smoke, a state appellate court ruled a Sheriff's deputy's observation of mari...
Minority students with the same grade point average as their white counterparts are less likely to be admitted to U.S. law sch...
Judges and Judiciary
George Leads a Judicial Foray Into Mexico in Seach of Mutual Understanding
By Garry Abrams
California Chief Justice Ronald M. George is heading a delegation of 39 judges from throughout the state on a working jaunt to...
Threatened with possible recusal for expressing doubts about the credibility of Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael A. Perez...
The right that fans of any cop show know as well as police officers - the right to remain silent- remains sacrosanct after the...
WASHINGTON - In an historic decision the U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld the Miranda ruling as a constitutional right that is...
Law Practice
Justices Allow Illinois Bar to Reject White Supremacist Lawyer
By Ed Kimble
The Supreme Court's rejection of a white supremacist's appeal of Illinois' refusal to admit him to the bar should not be seen ...
Plea Entered In Case of Chief's Kin A reputed gang member pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he fatally shot Los Angeles Pol...
Firm Watch
Kaye Scholer: ENTERTAINMENT LITIGATOR ABANDONS TROOP STEUBER
By Tamara Scott
Well-known entertainment litigation attorney George T. Caplan has joined the Los Angeles office of New York-based Kaye Scholer...
BOTTOM LINE: By Gary S. Wong During the past 20 years, the various LegalTech events held throughout the country have grown to ...
Firm Watch
Landels Ripley: PRACTICE WILL SHRINK TO 15 AS IT FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
By Tamara Scott
Firm Watch: By Tamara Scott San Francisco's Landels Ripley & Diamond filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy June 16 as part of a ...
Not everyone is leaving law partnerships to cash in on California's gold. Some of the biggest rainmakers are loyal to their fi...
INS Won't Budge In Woman's Case The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has filed a legal brief reiterating its positi...
The fresh faces seemed hopeful, full of promise. With the exception of one boy who said he was proud of his gang involvement, ...
Firm Watch
Orrick Herrington: OMELVENY'S MALKIN MAKES MOVE AFTER ONLY 28 YEARS
By Tamara Scott
After 28 years at O'Melveny & Myers, energy and telecommunications attorney Joseph M. Malkin has joined San Francisco's Or...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Brobeck Phleger: CREDENCE SYSTEMS ACQUIRES TMT FOR $80 MILLION
By Liz Valsamis
Deals: Fremont-based Credence Systems Corp. has acquired Sunnyvale's TMT Inc. in a cash and stock transaction valued at $80 mi...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cooley Godward: MOLECULAR DEVICES CORP. AND LJL BIOSYSTEMS MERGE
By Melissa Onstad
Deals: Molecular Devices Corp. and LJL BioSystems Inc., both based in Sunnyvale, have agreed to merge in a stock-for-stock tra...
Juvenile
Special Report: A Portrait of the Lives of L.A.'s At-Risk Youth
By Cheryl Romo
Each year more than 18,000 children are incarcerated in the county's three juvenile halls. While many of these kids are event...
"Is Los Angeles a safe place for women and girls?" asked speakers for the Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women on Fri...
Public Interest: By Marissa Navarro From 1988 to 1995 an apartment building in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte was home to ...