Power Struggle
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Elisa Massimino - The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the preside...
Justices Grapple With Drug-Discount Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday struggled over how to resolve a challenge by drug manufacturers to a Main...
In Bad Economy, Rehnquist Plea Seems Unbalanced
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert Gnalzda and Nativo Lopez - Rehnquist may be the wrong leader to raise the issue of an increase in the...
Lawyers Predict Trouble If SEC Approves the 'Noisy Withdrawal' Rule
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers are about to find out whether securities regulators intend to go through with a plan to tur...
Noisy Objections
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers are about to find out if securities regulators intend to go through with a plan to turn the...
Cowboy Judge Tackles Budget
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In the early morning hours, while most people are sleeping, Judge William A. MacLaughlin is awake, tending to hi...
Judge Will Advise on Priest Sex-Abuse Cases
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle has been assigned to determine whether eight cases involving allega...
High Court Rules Conspiracy May Continue After Police Foil Plot
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a solid victory to prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that a criminal conspiracy...
Judge Buoys Group's Fee Suit Against Prop. 65 Attorney
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has handed a local environmental group a significant victory in its bitter, multimilli...
A Disaster Waiting to Happen
By Robert Selna
Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - Nearly a year after someone detonated an explosive in a men's restroom at the Hall of ...
Corporations Face Tax Issues Related to Intellectual Property
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Karen Marie Kitterman - Those companies that fail to focus on the tax aspects of the...
Defender Hopes to Foster Camaraderie Among Peers
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Why can't American lawyers be more like the English? That question took hold of Alan Fenster when he became the ...
Judge Returns to Practicing Law
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In a rare move for a judge, Janice McIntyre is stepping down from the Riverside Superior Court to practice law ag...
9th Circuit Strikes WWII Slave Labor Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California's novel 1999 law giving World War II victims of Japanese or German slave labor the right to sue co...
Justices Won't Review Process for Mentally Ill on Death-Row
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to clarify which legal avenues mentally ill death row inmates ca...
School's Negligence Brought Boy's Suicide, Mother Alleges
By Matthew Heller
YUCAIPA - By the time 13-year-old Dylan Carr committed suicide with his grandfather's rifle, four months had passed since he r...
Panel Finds Slave-Labor Suits Unconstitutional
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday held unconstitutional California's landmark law allowing individ...
Justices Won't Review Process for Mentally Ill on Death-Row
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to clarify which legal avenues mentally ill death row inmates can...
Perkins Coie Labor Lawyer Joins Santa Monica Litigation Boutique
By Staff Writer
Employment and labor law attorney Colleen Regan is leaving Perkins Coie to join Santa Monica litigation boutique Van Etten, S...
Orrick Herrington's Seattle Outpost Takes Cooley Duo
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins In November, a Cooley Godward memo stated obliquely that its two remaining Kirkland, Wash., partners, Christo...
Defense Counsel Association Selects Officers for New Year
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel named its officers for the year 2003. Paul Fine is president-elect. He...
East West Bancorp Buys Another Bank
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes San Marino's East West Bancorp Inc. is continuing its buying spree, agreeing to purchase Pacific Business Ban...
Litigator Reassesses His Life, Joins Farella Braun
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Midway through his career as a construction litigator, Jeffrey Sykes took some time off and reassessed his li...
Three Firms Make 'Best Place to Work' List
By Liz Valsamis
Liz Valsamis Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Places to Work is a list that sports a variety of corporations, but few law firms. T...
Bonne Bridges Opens Las Vegas Outpost
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols has opened its much-needed Las Vegas office. Los Angeles litig...
Cha-Ching!
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder Juries didn't buy into corporate America in 2002. Business fraud cases made up the bulk of the top 10 jury...
IP Litigator Jumps at Chance To Work Close to His Home
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis After 18 months of commuting from his San Diego county home to Fish & Neave's Palo Alto office, partner N...
Layoffs Worry Members of Employment Law Alliance
By Stefanie Knapp
By Stefanie Knapp For the first time in its three-year history, the Employment Law Alliance surveyed its member attorneys to ...
Counsel at Reconstruction Bank Joins White & Case
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis After three years of helping rebuild the economies of countries that had belonged to the former Soviet Union,...