Government
Ex-DA Handles Police Liability For Irvine Firm
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
IRVINE - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant district attorney of Orange County, has joined the firm of Manning, Marder,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary L. Reback, a high-profile partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati who led one of the first legal ...
By Steven A. Silver In her editorial "Mothers Targeting Gun Violence," (Forum, May 8), Sen. Dianne Feinstein gushed about the ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Family Targets Manufacturers Of Disinfectant
By Anne La Jeunesse
The family of a 55-year-old United Airlines flight attendant who died of "metastatic lung disease" a year ago has filed a wron...
Just as the federal government is pressuring Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks to hand over the keys to his...
SAN FRANCISCO - Celebrity divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson has convinced a State Bar Court judge that he is fit to practice la...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday approved an award of more than $1.7 million in attorney's fees for the city of To...
A federal judge Monday dismissed weapons charges against a man who contended he had been framed by one of the police officers ...
Convicted pimp Joy "Babydol" Gibson, who allegedly plied her sex trade via the Internet, was sentenced Monday to three years i...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Peter C. Sheridan, a partner at Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro,...
A compromise "Driving While Black or Brown" bill tailored to win the support of Gov. Gray Davis has been proclaimed by its spo...
Entertainment & Sports
Movie Executive Joins Irell's IP and Entertainment Groups
By Katherine Gaidos
Eric Suddleson, former head of business and legal affairs at Los Angeles' Mutual Film Co., has joined the entertainment and in...
As the first three officers charged in the Rampart scandal pleaded not guilty Monday, their attorneys went on the offensive, a...
In announcing his compromise racial profiling bill at that April 27 Sacramento rally, state Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City.,...
Bottom Line: By Frank W. Nemecek and Mary H. Redfield An attorney has been hired to represent a client in a lawsuit. Pursuant ...
Retired Judge Lawrence C. Waddington will talk about "The 'Litigization' of Arbitration: A Review of Cutting Edge Case Law" at...
Debra Summers believes in getting down to business. In fact, focusing on the business issues, while managing the legal ones al...
Software company Blue Martini Inc. has filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of stock. The transaction...
A 45-minute flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and $55 was all it took for Joel Levitt and Barbara Gold to get hitched at th...
PeopleSoft Inc. has acquired Advance Planning Solution Inc. in a cash transaction whose value was not disclosed. ...
Practitioner: Land Use Law By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. In Waste Management of Alameda County Inc., v County of Alameda (Browning-F...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has ruled that Chevron Corp. must remain as a defendant in a suit accusing the oil giant's Nig...
ACT Networks Inc., based in Calabasas, is being acquired by Redwood City's Clarent Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valu...
Nightmare on Tribute Street For years, Kathy Masera and her staff at the California Job Journal in Sacramento had lived with a...
Mergers & Acquisitions
DEALS: SEAGATE DIVIDES IN COMPLEX, $20 BILLION TRANSACTION
By Melissa Onstad
Seagate Technology Inc. has been acquired by Veritas Software Corp. and a private investor group led by Silver Lake Partners i...
Transactions
DEALS: GOTO.COM GOES ON AUCTION CIRCUIT WITH DEAL FOR LINKS
By Liz Valsamis
Online search engine GoTo.com Inc., based in Pasadena, has acquired AuctionRover.com Inc., based in Research Triangle Park, N....
Forum: By Stephen Yagman The paradoxical notion of hiding in plain sight serves LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks very well, like th...
Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Showing some pretty fancy footwork, Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush denied knowi...
The Closer: By Anthony V. Baker These days, I often wonder what Alexander Hamitlton would think about the Supreme Court. By an...
Large Firms
FIRM WATCH: ANDREWS RETURNS TO PRIVATE PRACTICE FROM WASHINGTON
By Tamara Scott
International environmental lawyer David R. Andrews has returned to San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen after ...