Large Firms
Firm Watch: Trusts and Estates Group Joins in L.A. -- Beverly Hills Boutique Snags Media Lawyer -- IP Practice Bolstered With Three New Faces -- Arter & Hadden Lawyer Named General Counsel -- Bankruptcy Lawyer Seeks Shelter from Windy City -- Former....
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
We rate the judge who is only a lawyer higher than the judge who is only a philosopher. Cuthbert W. Pound Katten Muchin TRUST...
As part of its investigation into the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division corruption scandal, the district attor...
A wake will be held tonight for former Beverly Hills Municipal Court judge and attorney Charles D. Boags. Boags died Tuesday ...
SAN BERNARDINO - A 32-year-old mother of two was jailed after employees at the district attorney's child support division her...
Criminal
Suit Claims Counseling Center Coerced Clients
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Eight former clients of a Costa Mesa counseling center under investigation by the district attorney's office have...
Even though it hired a prosecutor without knowing he had been found civilly liable for a stabbing death, the Los Angeles Coun...
A defense attorney who used a break in a deposition as an opportunity to jog through his opposing counsel's law firm snapping...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Seek a New Strategy To Increase Their Salaries
By Jean Guccione
For most of the past decade, California judges have been trying to persuade lawmakers that judicial officers deserve a big pa...
Bankruptcy
Hennigan Mercer Make Final Plea for $50M Bonus
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Lawyers for the firm that recovered $865 million that Orange County lost in its 1994 bankruptcy made a last-ditch...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jurors Award $13.3 Million to Dove Founders
By Denise Levin
A Los Angeles couple known for their sensational tell-all books won a $13.3 million jury verdict in a legal malpractice case a...
Appellate Practice
Richardson, Retired Supreme Court Justice, Dies at Age 85
By Jean Guccione
Retired state Supreme Court Justice Frank K. Richardson, who became the conservative conscience on the liberal Rose Bird Cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a verdict of $3.3 million in damages awarded to an Iranian-b...
LAGUNA NIGUEL - A Mission Viejo attorney plans to file a motion disqualifying Orange County Superior Court Judge Pamela Iles ...
Judges and Judiciary
Complex Litigation Soon to Have New Home in O.C.
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - With all the attorneys now lugging in portable televisions and projector screens, clerks poring over mountains of...
Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday signed into law the first substantive change to Proposition 65 since the environmental initiativ...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge David M. Gill closed his courtroom to spectators and the news media Wednesday as arguments w...
Constitutional Law
First Amendment No Shield For False Ballot Arguments
By Anna Marie Stolley
An initiative may be removed from the ballot because proponents used inaccurate and misleading information to induce voters t...
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...