^^Family Law^^ Inc. Blot Business Doesn't Become Community Property Upon Incorporation 'Koester' may be just the most recent ...
^^ The Bookshelf^^ As Champion of Democracy, Warren Court Warrants Respect THE WARREN COURT AND THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE By Mor...
Ex-Officer Gets 14 Years for Robbery A federal judge sentenced a former Los Angeles police officer to more than 14 years in p...
Death Not Sought In Road Rage Case The Los Angeles County district attorney's office will not seek the death penalty for a 69...
Immigration
Judge Approves Settlement to End Litigation Over Prop. 187
By Martin Bergn
A federal judge Monday approved a settlement reached between Gov. Gray Davis and civil rights groups that had sued to block i...
Appellate Apprehension Even future Court of Appeal justices feel nervous at their first oral argument By Paul Turner When I w...
A federal judge indicated Monday she would not dismiss a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by former Black Panther leader Ge...
Betty J . Haviland, who has spent her entire legal career in the Santa Monica city attorney's office, has been named the acti...
VENTURA - Last month, more than 2,000 people sought help at the Ventura County court's self-help legal access centers in Vent...
SACRAMENTO - With no fanfare, but a $21,000 golden handshake, the Legislature has quietly paved the way for the departure of ...
Barring a plea bargain or dismissal of the case, former Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson is set to go on tr...
SACRAMENTO - In a last-ditch bid to ante up to a sweeping juvenile justice ballot initiative placed by former Republican Gov....
Law Practice
New York M&A Firm Opens New Outpost in Silicon Valley
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Davis Polk & Wardwell, the New York-based mergers-and-acquisitions and corporate finance powerhouse, launched its new Sil...
VENTURA - In a recent listing of Ventura County's top "Movers and Shakers," a local newspaper pictured Hells Angels Chapter P...
A former intern at UCLA's Department of Family Medicine has failed to produce sufficient evidence that he was booted from the...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Court Opens Door to Use of Pot by Very Ill
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court opened the door Monday to legal distribution of medical marijuana for terminally ill ...
SACRAMENTO - Here are summaries of the key elements of legislative proposals to partly restore the right of third parties to ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bars -- Plaintiffs And State -- See Capitol Victories
By Tom Dresslar And Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The 1999 legislative session saw the plaintiffs' bar get some tort-reform payback, the State Bar get a facelift ...
DA's Office Gets A $260K Grant The state Office of Criminal Justice Planning has awarded the Los Angeles County district atto...
Solo and Small Firms
NEW FACULTY AND NEW BUILDING SPARKS CHAPMAN Five new professors have joined the Chapman University law school community. The ...
By Gerald F. Uelmen Dissent and disagreement rates are both useful tools in analyzing the movement of judges around the fault...
^^Construction Law^^ By Bernard S. Kamine Proving damages for breach of a construction contract is often difficult. The theor...
Man Admits Use of Dog in Hate Crime A Sun Valley man pleaded guilty Friday to two misdemeanor federal hate crimes for using h...
ABA Will Honor Retired S.D. Judge Retired San Diego Superior Court Judge J. William Beard will receive an award from the Amer...
^^Appellate Procedure^^ Consent Consensus Supreme Court Allows Appeal of Stipulated Judgments Norgart provides a welcome addi...
Corporate
Brobeck Phleger CISCO SYSTEMS TAKES BIG EQUITY STAKE IN KPMG San Jose-based Cisco Systems invested $1 billion in New York acc...
Cyberspace Law Blame It on 'Rio' Uncertainty surrounding the downloading of digital music could spawn a deluge of litigation....
Staying current Creating a universal repository of documents and critical resources and keeping them up to date is the goal o...
Large Firms
Firm Watch: Report of a Cover-Up Denied by Leaders -- Best Workplace for Women, Says Magazine -- Real Estate Lawyer Opts for Smaller Outfit -- General Counsel Receives a Promotion -- Two CA Lawyers Promoted to Partnership -- Seven Associates Hired in....
By Pearl Piatt, Leslie Gordon & J. Byrd
The achievement of justice is an endless process. John F. Kennedy Graham & James REPORT OF A COVER-UP DENIED BY LEADERS T...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, former Los Angeles Police Chief Willie Williams and several m...