^^Commercial Law^^ By Joel D. Covelman Both equipment-leasing companies and lessees need to be aware of lurking year-2000 def...

By James Cooper Over the past month, the international community has been struggling with the aftermath of Operation "Allied ...

By Richard J. Sideman and Steven M. Katz Without a specific exemption from the California Legislature and Congress, settlemen...

When financial services and insolvency lawyer Jason D. Schauer goes into his usual song-and-dance routine, people don't roll ...

By Leslie A. Gordon If you can't conceptualize just how big Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has become, consider these f...

By Stacy L. Cohen No one can say Marci Rubin isn't a well-rounded person. She left law school to be a waitress, then a ski bu...

By Mary Micheletti If any Los Angeles law office has a "Midwestern feel," it's Arter & Hadden, partner Robert L. Dickson ...

By Tom Orewyler As the state's high-tech hotbeds - most notably Silicon Valley - prosper, real estate prices have gone throug...

BERKELEY - Thirty years after sparking a notorious march to take over a vacant field in Berkeley known as People's Park, atto...

Sullivan & Cromwell DEAL HELPS PHARMACIA & UPJOHN FIGHT CANCER Bridgewater, N.J.-based pharmaceutical company Pharmac...

Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Ronald R. Schoenberg quietly retired earlier this month, in a manner that reflected the way...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Senior Deputy District Attorney Christopher Evans said Friday that he plans to leave the DA's offic...

SAN DIEGO - Mara Plascencia, her mouth slowly opening and closing, scanned the faces of the six women and six men, but they f...

The recent discovery of knives among the possessions of visitors to the downtown County Courthouse has led to a new security ...

WASHINGTON - Section 6254(f) of the California Public Records Act, which forbids release of the addresses of arrestees and cr...

In reaction to a recent Daily Journal article detailing the deaths of 12 Los Angeles County children during a period of six w...

About five years ago W. Bruce Wold, a partner at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold in San Francisco, gave up his hourly billi...

SANTA ANA - In the wake of Thursday's state Supreme Court ruling barring the release of grand jury transcripts concerning Ora...

An insurance-defense attorney in the Bay Area received a response to one of his bills recently. Cut this, cut that, it said. ...

A Los Angeles businessman has filed a professional negligence complaint against his former attorneys, claiming he has suffere...

^^The Rodent^^ The Firm's Road-Trip Team Is a Many-Headed Beast Some sports teams, especially at the college level, have two ...

Tippler Transit New Amendments to the Driving-Under-the-Influence Laws By Mark S. Rafferty This year, amendments to the drivi...

Search Light The Supreme Court Has Clarified a Number of Fourth Amendment Issues Perhaps most astounding of all was the fact ...

By Thomas F. Coleman Four bills moving through the Legislature would grant benefits to unmarried couples, whether heterosexua...

By Stephen C. Tedesco On June 22, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions that clarified the Americans With Disabilities A...

^^TALES AND TRIALS^^ By Joel ben Izzy I am always surprised when I work with trial lawyers who have never studied the great f...

A lawyer and a law firm employee who claim they wrongly were stopped and searched in a gang-infested area because they are wh...

Prominent Los Angeles neutral Diane Wayne is leaving Century City-based ADR Services Inc. to join JAMS/Endispute and buy into...

An AIDS patient who accused opposing counsel in a wrongful termination case of illegal conduct has settled his lawsuit agains...

SAN DIEGO - Mayor Susan Golding was found factually innocent Thursday of charges of misconduct in office brought against her ...