State Bar & Bar Associations
Inequity In Sentencing, Legal Services Decried by Clinton
By Jean Guccione
ATLANTA - President Clinton, welcomed by a warm and overflowing audience of the American Bar Association, called on the natio...
Real Estate/Development
Individual Condo Owners' Rights Eroded By Court
By Philip Carrizosa
In an important victory for condominium and other common-interest housing associations, the California Supreme Court held Mon...
By Tom Orewyler If there was any doubt, Lucie Barron knew Action Dispute Resolution Services Inc. had begun to break from the...
Securities
Latham & Watkins SAFEWAY GOBBLES UP REGIONAL GROCERY CHAIN Continuing its plan to acquire regional grocery store chains, ...
By Jennifer Byrd This fall, like every fall, the campus of Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco will be a whirlwind o...
Large Firms
Lawyers' Screenplay Being Shopped Around
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
By Jennifer Byrd What do a minister in South-Central Los Angeles and a detective have in common with two lawyers in San Franc...
By Garry Abrams El Nio is, of course, the mysterious and dreaded periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean that triggers destruct...
By Justin T. Beck In the landmark decision Markman v. Westview Instruments Inc. , 517 U.S. 370 (1996), the U.S. Supreme Court...
A federal judge has ruled that federal authorities must move quickly to protect the habitat of a threatened California coasta...
GOLDEN, Colo. - From his spacious office at the foot of the mountains just west of Denver, Jefferson County District Attorney...
Solo and Small Firms
Berger Kahn Opens Office in Woodland Hills
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Irvine-based Berger, Kahn, Shafton, Moss, Figler, Simon & Gladstone has opened a new office in Woodland Hills. A "major f...
Law Practice
Firm Watch: Oppenheimer Enjoined From Soliciting Lawyers -- Gore's Chief of Staff Joins Beltway Office -- Three IP Partners Depart L.A. Office
By Pearl Piatt, Leslie Gordon & J. Byrd
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court. William O. Douglas CORREC...
By Chris Ford When a Fortune 100 company interviewed Brobeck Phleger & Harrison recently, it was looking for a firm to pr...
^^Insurance Law^^ By David Z. Ribakoff With limited exceptions, the California Rules of Professional Conduct forbid lawyers f...
By Leslie A. Gordon If the shoe fits, sue it. That should be the motto for Bullivant Houser Bailey's San Francisco office. On...
When the time finally arrives to make a presentation to a potential client, how much technological pizzazz should a firm pack...
By Mark R. Campbell When an attorney's individual clients run into financial difficulties, it pays to know the options availa...
A personal injury attorney cleared earlier this year in a large capping and money-laundering case filed an $80 million malici...
City prosecutors will have discretion to decide whether to file numerous violations of the Los Angeles Municipal Code as eith...
When the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a housing-discrimination lawsuit six years ago in Los Angeles Superio...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Casting a Critical Eye on Legal Treatment of the Mentally Ill
By Garry Abrams
Anyone familiar with downtown Los Angeles would recognize the characters in this movie. Some lolled on bus stop benches in co...
ATLANTA - Giving his first in-depth comments after more than five years as a Whitewater defendant and federal prisoner, forme...
By Katherine James At 8:15 a.m., the line to get into juvenile traffic court was already 14 families long. We were the 15th. ...
By Adam B. Schiff More than 3 million children look to California's child-support enforcement system to satisfy their basic n...
By Kurt C. Peterson and Michael Eidel Twenty years ago, a camera crew would lie in wait to capture the unfolding of an elabor...
SAN FRANCISCO - It may be ironic, but it is not illegal or improper, that federal rules require that a criminal defense attor...
^^Occupational Hazards^^ By Hindi Greenberg Lawyers who wish to use their skills but want to leave the practice of law should...
By Michael D. Adams and Gregg A. Farley A recent flurry of mass-tort cases have attempted to substitute statistics in place o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Latham & Watkins has gained three high-profile litigation partners, two in the firm's Menlo Park office a...
A Woodland Hills attorney has taken his beef over a referral fee with a fellow attorney and former law schoolmate to the Inte...
