LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb has expanded its new-media practice group by nabbing Internet entertainment lawyer Steven J. Pe...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly approved the final version of a $38 billion appropriatio...
Large Firms
Heller Ehrman Snags Well-Known Trial Attorney for Partner
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Well-known trial lawyer Alexander "Lex" Brainerd has left the Palo Alto office of Los Angeles-based Quinn Ema...
Moving at top speed with Election Day nearing, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday heard oral arguments, then...
Technology & Science
Federal Judge Sends Y2K Suits Back to State Court
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a bid by five national retailers facing a Y2K lawsuit to transfer the cas...
When a lawyer and two of his former firms are sued, who picks up the tab for the lawyer? Coudert Brothers sued Stroock & ...
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has chosen Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue partner Louis L. Touto...
SAN FRANCISCO - It will cost a police sergeant $52,000 in legal fees for suing San Franciscan Betty Evans, a superior court j...
A California law allowing police to sue individuals for allegedly lodging false complaints against them has been found uncons...
With Los Angeles County prosecutors conceding they had not complied with one portion of his order regulating their use of wir...
Appellate Practice
Would a Bailment by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
By Anna Marie Stolley
To this day, film buffs ponder the significance of "Rosebud" - a simple word with powerful meaning, integral to Orson Welles'...
Damage Control Sue-and-Labor Clauses Will Generally Not Cover Y2K Remediation By Patrick E. Shipstead and Scott G. Johnson Ove...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego district attorney's office is "hopelessly compromised" and should not be allowed to retry four men ...
By Jeffrey A. Singer Recent front-page news stories about racist gunmen attacking innocent minorities in Chicago, Los Angeles...
Health Fair New Laws Will Dramatically Change Managed-Care Litigation A new state agency called the Department of Managed Car...
By Corky Pickering The world's attention has been recently focused on the often neglected subject of international criminal l...
Audits OK'd for County Contractors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to authorize audits of all custo...
Couple Denies Food Bank Crimes SANTA ANA - LaVerne residents Steven and Denise Helen Oleesky pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a ...
Supervisors OK Changes to PD SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 Tuesday to implement t...
Government
Republican Club Sues to Block City Campain Limits
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County political club that donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to state, federal and local election...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice to Become Judges' Most Visible Pay Raise Lobbyist
By Jean Guccione
In a significant shift of political strategy, state judicial leaders are preparing to ask Gov. Gray Davis to give state judge...
SAN FRANCISCO - Willie Brown and Clint Reilly don't often agree, but on campaign spending limits they're in sync. The mayoral...
One of three defendants indicted in a high-tech scheme to cheat on the Law School Admissions Test pleaded guilty Tuesday to a...
An agreement embraced Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors that was brokered by a state lawmaker could lead...
The American Board of Trial Advocates has presented its highest journalism award to Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Ga...
State Bar & Bar Associations
MoFo Announces Attorneys For New San Diego Operation
By Martin Kruming
Morrison & Foerster has opened a San Diego office in Carmel Valley with one attorney and more expected beginning next mon...
New York-based Chadbourne & Parke is losing its Los Angeles insurance and reinsurance litigation group with the departure...
Angered animal rights advocates say a recent wrestling match between 300-pound Huntington Beach weight lifter Dominic Menaldi...
WASHINGTON - For the third time in as many years, a bipartisan group of congressmen that includes some senior lawmakers is pl...
In a boon to class action objectors, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that class members retain the ability to oppose at...