Charity Neither Starts Nor Ends with the Holidays
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor No matter what place you came in during Arden Realty 's second annual Energy Chall...
China OKs More U.S. Law Office Openings There
By Wire
By Andrew Dunn Bloomberg News Vinson & Elkins, Baker & McKenzie and other U.S. law firms have won permission from the...
Attorney Bullds Reputation For Representing Dead Stars
By Stefanie Knapp
By Stefanie Knapp The most memorable moment of Bill Wegner's career came when the litigator put Marilyn Monroe on the witness...
Promotion to Partner Marks New Year for Some Lawyers
By Staff Writer
Just as renditions of "Auld Lang Syne" wrap up, New Year's resolutions and traditions come out of the woodwork. In the weeks ...
Court Will Review Holocaust-Victim Relief Law
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether California can require foreign insurance companies who do...
Appellate Court Addresses 'Passive Migration' Issue
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Years after chemicals are spilled or leaked, they continue to passivel...
Justices Will Review Holocaust-Victim Relief Law
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether California can require foreign insurance companies who do ...
An Action-Packed Two Decades
By Karen Coleman
FAIRFIELD - Even though Judge Luis Villarreal celebrated his 20th year on the bench in November, he's still a long way from re...
Draft System In Arbitration Looks Shaky
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - Phoenix attorney Mark Scheehle got the last word in his battle over the Arizona practice of dragooning lawyer...
New Construction Continues in L.A.
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor As the man-made snow began to fall over holiday shoppers at the Grove in Los Angel...
Suit Against Chevron Is Buoyed
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A human rights lawsuit against ChevronTexaco appears likely to be expanded to include a racketeering charge a...
Lawyer Wins Fight Against Gag Order
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A judge refused Friday to bar lawyers from discussing actor Robert Blake's upcoming deposition in the civil laws...
Just About Everyone Thinks They Can Fix Section 17200
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - There's another battle under way to reform the state's unfair competition law. Small-business owners say they ar...
Lasting Impressions
By Staff Writer
Take the best law firm leaders, the state’s longest-sitting jurist and trailblazers in race, gender and sexuality. Add a few...
California Statutes Keep Repeat Sex Offenders Off the Streets
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Bradley Weinreb - It has been estimated that a sex offender commits about 300 offenses in his...
RICO Charges Of Murder May Expand Oil Suit
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A human rights lawsuit against ChevronTexaco appears likely to be expanded to include a racketeering charge a...
Lawyer Warns Angry Alleged 'Extortion' Victims of Slow Change
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Any financial relief from the state Legislature will probably come too late for thousands of businesses currently...
Lawyers' Trip to Cuba Draws Some Criticism
By Spare 2
SANTA ANA - Jamie Duarte is going to Cuba, and he's taking 90 lawyers with him. Next month, Duarte, as president of the Orang...
Pasadena Judge Follows in Familial Footsteps
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - When he was still in college, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jan A. Pluim thought he'd tempt fate - or ...
Legal Woes Continue for Jurist Arrested for Drunken Driving
By Matthew Heller
SANTA MARIA - It was bad enough for Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall when she was arrested at gunpoint last month for drunke...
Defense Witnesses? Who? Oh, They Were Deported
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - A dozen witnesses who would exonerate a defendant accused of acting as a guide or leader in an alien smugglin...
Fruit and Vegetable Maker Goes Private
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Dole Food Co. Inc. has embraced the going-private trend. The fruit and vegetable producer, based in Westlake ...
In Over Their Heads
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The separation of powers doctrine is something with which most people have a glancing co...
Devotion to Poor Earned Defender Respect
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - J. Dean Allen Jr., a longtime supervisor in the Orange County public defender's office and namesake of an award ho...
Consumer Attorneys Award Honors
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles will bestow its highest honor on a lawyer with a medical degre...
Governor's Change of Heart on Parole Raises Questions
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - What a difference 11 months makes. In January 2002, Gov. Gray Davis did his standard thing and vetoed a Stockt...
Federal Judge Refuses to Block Immigration Service Arrests
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by a coalition of immigrant advocacy groups to temporarily bar the ...
Court Steps Into Minefield of Wage-and-Hour Appeal Costs
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Clint Robison - On Dec. 2, the California Supreme Court issued its ruling in Smith v. Ra...
Shrinking Pensions
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On Dec. 11, 2002, the Treasury Department proposed regulations that would allow compani...
Geneva Towers Owners Prevail In Battle for Refund Claim
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Tax collectors take heed: If you ignore a refund claim, it could come back to haunt you years later. That's th...