WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court gave no indication Monday whether it will allow a person who is not a member of an identifiable...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis unveiled an $88 billion state budget for fiscal 2000-01 that would increase judges' pay, bolster ...
Three men pleaded guilty to alien smuggling charges that resulted in the death of five people during a snow storm in the mount...
Nancy Sagatelian, a nonsmoker, enjoyed the benefits of a healthy lifestyle until she bought a Pasadena condominium in April 19...
Intellectual Property
SLA Judge Decides There Was a Revolution - But It Won't Be Televised
By Garry Abrams
Sara Jane Olson is going to prison. That's my bet after Monday's pretrial hearing in the case against the former Symbionese Li...
Los Angeles-based Irell & Manella has nabbed three intellectual property attorneys for its Newport Beach office from the C...
A federal magistrate has indicated he will reverse the tainted conviction of a 12th person as a result of the Los Angeles Poli...
L.A. Firm Names Four New Partners Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp elevated four attorneys to the partnership. Tra...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has backpedaled on a decision from last summer that significantly expanded pension pro...
Jack E. Brown, a pioneering Phoenix intellectual property attorney who led Apple Computer Inc. to a major victory over a clon...
Securities
Deals: Infonet Services Corp. Begins International IPO -- Internet Security Firm Acquires Signio Inc. -- San Joses Puma Catches Netmind Technologies....
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
IPO Infonet Services Corp. of El Segundo has begun an initial public offering of 51.3 million shares, valued at more than $1 b...
Large Firms
For once, Ralph Baxter was speechless. The memorable occasion came in October at a partners' meeting at San Francisco's Ritz C...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Not only are father and son Glendora attorneys John and Brian Watkins facing a variety of criminal charges,...
DA Will Appeal Adair Case Ruling Prosecutors have announced they intend to appeal the rare determination made by a San Fernand...
SACRAMENTO - Police officers who were once convicted of certain kinds of felonies - including sex crimes, assault and theft - ...
A law firm claims it was abandoned during the course of litigation by its legal malpractice insurance company and the malpract...
Litigation
Winning Streak: Here's a sampling of cases in which Bill Price won defense verdicts.
By Katherine Gaidos
Moore v. Teletech , Los Angeles Superior Court LC033016 (1999) - an employment discrimination suit in which the plaintiff soug...
Administrative/Regulatory
'Morally Unfit' Officers May Still Serve Public
By Daniel Jennings
SACRAMENTO - Some police officers who have been convicted of certain kinds of felonies - including sex crimes, assault and the...
"Do y'all have gravity out there?" was the Atlanta lawyer's pained reaction to our nutshell description of the workings of Cal...
At 5 feet 1 inch, Jeanine Donohue might not look like the brawniest person on the planet. But looks can be deceiving. Donohue...
The International Standby Practices 1998 provides a global code of practice for standby letters of credit and similar undertak...
In some ways, it is your garden-variety showbiz lawsuit. A well-known film producer is being sued for allegedly violating an o...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Want Sanctions in Putman's RICO Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Huntington Beach attorney Philip Putman, who filed a federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act la...
William Cernius, a securities partner in the Newport Beach office of Latham & Watkins, is still trying to lose his Englis...
After successfully defending a discrimination or harassment action under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, an em...
A subcontractor must honor its bid when a prime contractor reasonably relies on it. Page 7. Reasonable Reliance When Must a Su...
SAN FRANCISCO - 1999 was another record year for large Northern California law firms. Profits per partner hit $851,000 at one ...
The problem is, as helpful as Miranda is in regularizing police conduct in general, it can also unnecessarily impede the resol...
If Bill Price is nervous in the courtroom, it's not because he's scared of trying cases. Nor is it because of the multimillion...
Transactions
Firm Watch: Three Bankruptcy Lawyers Switch Teams -- Los Angeles Office Gets New Faces -- Corporate Lawyers Join San Diego Stalwart....
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. - Henry David Thoreau Oppenheimer Wolff THREE B...