By Thomas Edward Wall The cause of child abuse prevention received a major boost when the California Supreme Court unanimously...
Mergers & Acquisitions
DEALS: SANTA CLARA'S VERIDICOM BUYS GERMAN CONCERN
By Melissa Onstad
Santa Clara-based Veridicom Inc., which provides security software for use in business-to-business online transactions, has ac...
Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Gamble Leck & Mallory has promoted six associates to partner in its Irvine, Los Angeles, W...
An executive from a Silicon Valley start-up was shocked when he talked to Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati - the region'...
The Closer: By Stanley W. Lamport Mark Twain once said, " Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." The world arou...
Plenty of busy attorneys rise each morning before the sun. But the alarm clock of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Jonathan Moshe...
The Beverly Hills Bar Association will honor the justices of the state Supreme Court at its annual luncheon June 6 at the Cent...
Heller Ehrman will receive the American Bar Association's 2000 Pro Bono Publico Award at the association's annual meeting July...
Bottom Line: By Gary S. Wong Technology has permeated the day-to-day operation of most law firms, and the cost of this technol...
A court on Friday gave Glendale police until October to provide evidence that a former respiratory therapist may have committe...
The city of Los Angeles has launched a program to reduce the volume of nonemergency calls fielded by 911 operators and to cons...
Legislation to make it easier for some Laotian Vietnam War veterans and their families to take citizenship tests was awaiting ...
After 27 years with Cooley Godward, corporate and securities lawyer Alan C. Mendelson - a founding partner of Cooley's Palo Al...
The Los Angeles office of San Diego-based Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has recruited corporate and transactional attorn...
Firm Watch
FIRM WATCH: PARTNER LEAVES TO START TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
By Meredith Alexander
Gary L. Reback , a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner who initiated one of the earliest legal fights against Microso...
Labor/Employment
Professional Sports Need Attorneys on Playing Field
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - If you've visited the ballpark recently, you may have admired the quick spin of a well-turned double play and ...
Crisis? What Rampart crisis? In a decidedly minority opinion, outspoken police defense attorney Ira Salzman believes that the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - This phenomenon is for real: Large Silicon Valley firms are so overwhelmed by the demand for their time, they ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orange County's supervising criminal courts judge and the alternate public defender's office broke the law whe...
Television producer and writer Deborah Pratt had "had it" with attorneys, whom she considered to be at the same level in the e...
Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Rebecca Lulow A managing partner's worst fear was embodied in the character of Nelle Porter on this...
Civil Rights
Police Need to Follow Court On Spraying Demonstrators
By Contributing Writer
Forum: By Charles Levendosky The peaceful anti-logging protesters, who had pepper spray blasted into their eyes at close range...
M, I sent an electronic photo of Gene Moscovitch to you this week. He is bearded and rabbinic-looking. -L SPECIAL ISSUE: ADR B...
The Practitioner: Intellectual Property Law By Robert. R. Sachs The competitive value of Internet, business-method or software...
Dicta: On 'Law & Order' By Judith B. Sklar Sometimes it takes a village to commit a crime. We know about the most common a...
Dicta: On 'The Practice' By M.C. Sungaila After a richly textured three-episode exploration of the death penalty, the series r...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: ADR^^ By Gerald T. McLaughlin and Paul Turner When parties need to mediate letter- of- credit disputes, couns...
When television producers and writers Deborah Pratt and Donald P. Bellisario, who created the mega-hit "Quantum Leap," divorce...
Dicta: On 'Judging Amy,' By Akilah Monifa Although some may disagree, race matters. Five years ago federal law made race-match...
The Practitioner: Intellectual Propery Law By Surjit P. Soni and M. Danton Richardson It is often stated that the U.S. Supreme...