Accusing Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti of being "a failed administrator and passive prosecutor" who has e...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to strike down - as illegal race-based discrimination - a Hawaii law ...
VENTURA - For months, Beverlee Sue Merriman visited her son in the Ventura County jail as he awaited trial for raping and mur...
Law Practice
Fenwick & West Names 10 to Join Partner Ranks
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West has announced the elevation of 10 attorneys to partners in its Palo Alto office. The partn...
A woman who claims an employee of the family support division of the District Attorney's office left her racially demeaning v...
Judges and Judiciary
O.C. Opens Up to Tell Court Exactly How It Does Its Job
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - For nearly 200 business owners, police officers, high school students, city council members and community organiz...
Law Practice
Pillsbury Partner To Move Inside At Catellus Corp.
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Carolyn Huestis, a real estate and business partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in Los Angeles, will leave the firm Oct....
SAN BERNARDINO - Disregarding a schizophrenia defense, a jury Tuesday sentenced to death a convicted killer who claimed "evil...
A wrongful death suit filed Tuesday claims the controversial diabetes drug Rezulin, its makers and a doctor who prescribed it...
Appellate Practice
New Math Helped Riverside Justice Ease Case Backlog
By Jean Guccione
Since its recent move to Riverside, the state appellate court serving Riverside and San Bernardino counties has left behind i...
Litigation
Keller Dismisses Senator's Claim That Minority Motorists Targeted
By Martin Bergn
A federal judge Tuesday threw out a civil rights lawsuit by state Sen. Kevin Murray against the city of Beverly Hills that cl...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed associate attorney general and former Los Angeles attorney Raymond C. Fishe...
A memorial service will be held Thursday for John Swaney, a former attorney and news radio anchor known for his melodious voi...
After three years as head of the Los Angeles Municipal Court Presiding Judges Association, Judge Philip K. Mautino is retirin...
In his annual address to the State Bar, Chief Justice Ronald M. George warned bar leaders against "returning to the status qu...
The gun industry lost a round Monday in its battle with several local cities, including Los Angeles, when a U.S. District jud...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Veil of Gloom Lifts at State Bar Meeting
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar of California held its annual meeting last week in Long Beach, and the big news was that there wasn't any. The ...
SACRAMENTO - Crips, Bloods, Tiny Rascals and LAPD officers. At first glance, it might seem ludicrous to include members of the...
WASHINGTON - This time Ron Klain didn't get away. The 38-year-old Klain, long-heralded as one of the young stars of the Clint...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved the hiring of a popular - and reportedly tough - former child ...
SAN DIEGO - A law preventing peace officers from carrying firearms after they are convicted of battery has been found unconst...
Supervisors to Hear Courthouse Costs RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County Board of Supervisors should learn how much the construc...
When a deal was close on a recent multibillion-dollar transaction, Ronald S. Beard packed his bags and headed off on vacation...
^^Employee Benefits Law^^ By Charles P. Teixeira For the time being in California, only state courts can make initial determi...
Most merger or acquisition transactions have significant tax implications. The transaction may be structured as a taxable sale...
Attorney: Press Accounts Wrong RIVERSIDE - The attorney for the grandfather arrested after his granddaughter was discovered c...
By Garry Abrams The mania for merging entertainment and media entities in this decade has spun off at least two kinds of lega...
By Josh Grossberg JAMS/Endispute, a national leader in for-profit alternative dispute resolution, just got a little bit small...
Law Practice
Deals: Hilton and Promus Hotels Combine to Go Big Time -- Amid the Cloudscape Informix Finds Deal
By Jason Song & Katherine Gaidos
Gibson Dunn HILTON AND PROMUS HOTELS COMBINE TO GO BIG TIME In a deal valued at $4 billion, Hilton Hotels will acquire Promus...
By John F. McLean The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, 15 U.S.C. Section 18a, requires the parties to me...