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...
All in the Family John McNicholas has woven family, faith and law together. He practices with two of his sons and one of his ...
The net operating losses of a target company are often its most valuable possessions. But the acquiring company must structur...
By Paul Kiesel Two pieces of advice I'm afraid I should have listened to but didn't are don't read in the dark or you'll need...
Large Firms
Firm Watch: Three Attorneys Added to S.F. Office -- Nine Attorneys Added at L.A. Headquarters -- Two-Attorney Boutique Brought into the Fold -- Eleven Elected to Partnership -- Corporate, Tax Pro Added in L.A. -- Communications Pros Join Seattle Stalwart
By Pearl Piatt, Leslie Gordon & J. Byrd
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke Musick P...
By Elizabeth Freudenthal More than 25 years ago, young John Osborn, still reeling from the rigors of Harvard Law School and a...
^^Construction Law^^ Making Sure Obligations Under Construction Payment Bonds The scope of potential liability is important n...
After a recent series of managerial appointments at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison , four out of the firm's five California ...
Bench Recused For Bribery Trial A Los Angeles Municipal Court judge has recused the entire Municipal Court bench from hearing...
By Alan J. Barton Each acquisition involves a purchase and sale contract in which the purchaser of the target company obtains...
By Leslie A. Gordon Kenton King, a mergers and acquisitions partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, used to spend h...
SACRAMENTO - Here are the major provisions of a three-bill package on low-cost auto insurance. The legislation awaits action ...
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered the district attorney's office to tell him why he should not vacate a man's 19...
ROBERT LEVINS/Daily Journal Los Angeles Municipal Court Presiding Judge Veronica S. McBeth and City Attorney James K. Hahn, ...
SAN DIEGO - Saying that circumstances in a case of a woman convicted of shaking a baby to death didn't justify a sentence les...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed San Diego attorney M. James Lorenz to the U.S. District Court for the Southern...
SACRAMENTO - Finally freed from the vise-grip of two powerful Capitol lobbies, California stands poised to open an auto insur...
On May 11, 1996, ValuJet Flight 592 took off from Miami International Airport with 110 people on board and a crate of chemica...
The police inspector general will have the authority to investigate or audit the police department without prior authority fr...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Mounts Campaign to Pay Legal Bills for Justice Kline
By Jean Guccione
A retired Los Angeles trial judge is leading a statewide campaign to raise $30,000 from sitting and retired judges to help Ap...
Civil Rights
Accused Killer's Confession To Reporter Is Sought By Defense
By Martin Bergn
Defense lawyers for three alleged white supremacists charged with murder want a reporter to testify about a purported confess...
WASHINGTON - As it opens its 1999-2000 term today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases that will have a major ...
^^U.S. SUPREME COURT ARGUMENTS^^ The justices this week will hear these cases: TODAY HABEAS CORPUS: Must a federal habeas peti...
By John D. Frager Commercial real estate brokers have a history of operating individually and independently. Obviously, many ...
Calvin R. Abe sees his role as a landscape architect as changing the way people perceive public landscapes. "It's about creat...
Sacramento - News from a major Southern California retail developer and a large Southern department store has further lifted ...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY 30495-30497 CANWOOD AVE., AGOURA HILLS Sq.Ft.: 2,500, OFFICE SPACE Tenant: KRISLIN CO. Tenant's Broker: ST...