A former Long Beach policewoman who settled her sexual harassment lawsuit against the city and Police Chief William Ellis near...
Deals: Adept Technology Inc. has completed its acquisition of NanoMotion Inc. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. ...
Firm Watch: Andrea Sheridan Ordin, a partner at Los Angeles' Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, often jokes that she entered private...
Elder Law There's nothing worse than false promises, at least according to Prescott Cole, advocate for the elderly. ...
Forum: For the People By Jeffrey A. Lowe In recent years, reports of babies abandoned in trash bins, restrooms and parking lot...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court judges adopted a resolution Friday approving a merger between the Orange County Marsh...
The Closer: By Jeffrey Krivis Every day, I meet with people and try to sort through their conflicts in order to achieve some m...
Deals: Corporate attorney Patrick Seaver has proven that oil and water do mix. ...
Deals: Santa Clara's Palm Inc., maker of handheld wireless organizer Palm Pilot and Palm VII, has acquired Cambridge, Mass.,-b...
Deals: California Pizza Kitchen, based in Los Angeles, will serve up an initial public offering worth an estimated $70 million...
On the Move: About 120 lawyers from Battle Fowler's New York office have joined Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker's office t...
Firm Watch: San Francisco and New York-based Thelen Reid & Priest has acquired San Francisco's Britton Silberman & Cer...
On the Move: Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has chosen its first female managing partner - corporate and sec...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court: Tobacco Liability Law Is Not Retroactive
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1998 change in state law that allows personal injury suits against tobacco companies for smoking-related i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Reasserting the importance of independent environmental review, a federal appellate court has blocked resumpti...
More than eight months after the Rampart scandal came to light, blame continues to be cast on many in Los Angeles government w...
Dicta: By John Hilbert California attorneys may not be aware that rates for official transcripts of courtroom proceedings are ...
At Issue: By Deborah Rosenthal In order to curb litigation against employers for on-the-job injuries, California enacted a sys...
Seeking to qualify, for a possible death penalty, the 18-year-old reputed gang member charged with murdering the granddaughter...
Practitioner: Environmental Law By William D. Wick A California Court of Appeal last month upheld the state's listing of vario...
Tony Alvarado, a reformed gang member who faces deportation stemming from a 10-year-old crime he claims he didn't commit, has ...
COSTA MESA - Orange County's Public Law Center was awarded a check of $6,000 Wednesday night at the Association of Business Tr...
ADR Profile: By Rebecca Kuzins Eliot Disner has obtained multi million dollar verdicts in antitrust and business litigation an...
Keys to Victory: By Kelly E. Lee Dominic Surprenant, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in Los Angeles, w...
Forum: By Mike Farrell Gov. Gray Davis has turned a deaf ear to Cardinal Roger Mahony. Like Gov. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshi...
Litigator Profile: By Deborah Rosenthal Peter A. Saporito has run the gamut of jobs representing transportation entities in So...
On the Move: The Los Angeles office of New York-based Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy will get a new West Coast litigation h...
Opinion: By Steve Cerveris Tired of mediation rhetoric about cooperation, win-win, empathetic listening, non confrontational c...
Placing a metal detector at the public entrance of a courtroom during a multiple-murder trial is not prejudicial to the defend...
Law Practice
Warning Needed Before Judge Can Cite Attorneys for Contempt
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges: If you're going to cite attorneys for contempt of court, be sure to warn them first. ...