Contractor Wins Suit Against Association of Homeowners
By Eron Yehuda
To have a homeowners' association sued by a general contractor is odd enough. Typically, it's the other way around. What makes...
Kelley Drye Ups Five to Partner, Including Pair of L.A. Lawyers
By Staff Writer
New York-based Kelley Drye & Warren elevated five attorneys, including two Los Angeles lawyers, to the partnership, the fi...
It's Developer vs. Developer
By Ron Mc Nees
BY SHEILA MUTO Dow Jones Newswires Call it the battle of El Segundo. Two real-estate developers in this California industrial...
Los Angeles Chapter of Trial Group Elects Melby as Vice President
By Stefanie Knapp
The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates recently elected Donna Melby as vice president. Melby, a liti...
Trademark Lawyer Leaves Cooley
By Liz Valsamis
After helping establish Cooley Godward's trademark practice in San Diego, Lisa Martens has ditched the Palo Alto-based firm fo...
Tech Firm Taps Wilson Experts
By Toni Vranjes
A Silicon Valley legal team advised a Southern fiber-optics company in its latest round of venture financing, which raised $15...
Musick Peeler Keeps on Growing
By Liz Valsamis
Los Angeles' Musick, Peeler & Garrett has experienced a growth spurt over the past three months, hiring 10 new attorneys -...
Litigation Veteran Swaps Firms
By Joel Rosenblatt
Litigation partner John W. Fowler left Bingham McCutchen to join Bergeson Eliopoulos, a litigation boutique in San Jose, the f...
Liner Yankelevitz Quits Santa Monica for Westwood Village
By Staff Writer
Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstrief is leaving its Santa Monica headquarters for Westwood Village. The firm has inked...
Heller Ehrman Pitches In to Reform Foster Care System
By Christina Landers
Attorney Cary Hall is no stranger to work with the Center for Law in the Public Interest. In high school, he worked as assista...
Fair and Square?
By Columnist
Column by James J. Farrell and Anthony N. Luti - The number of class actions has grown tremendously over the last decade. Betw...
Laughing It Off
By Contributing Writer
Column by Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Is there a role for humor in mediation? - To answer this question, we turned to ...
Dechert Crosses Into Germany Opens an Outpost in Frankfurt
By Staff Writer
Dechert has expanded into Germany with the opening of a Frankfurt office in early August. Corporate lawyer Gerhard Kaiser has ...
Jeffer Mangels Moves Quarters In San Francisco and Century City
By Staff Writer
Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro is almost finished with the moving vans and the shuffle of relocating to new offices. Th...
Lyon Hunt Yields Additions To Law Firms' IP Practices
By Liz Valsamis
Keeping track of the movement of 80 attorneys is not an easy thing to do, but with intellectual property boutique Lyon & L...
Jury Awards Woman's Heirs $1.25 Million
By Joan Osterwalder
Matthew McNicholas beat the odds in Norwalk. The 30-year-old up-and-coming attorney won a $1.25 million jury award in a tradit...
Creating a Crystal Ball
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Already a textbook example of successful redevelopment, downtown San Diego is fine-tunin...
Love They Neighbor?
By John Ryan
Wearing a dark suit, long dark coat and hat, Rabbi Chaim Baruch Rubin sweats in the hot summer sun. "Well, this is it," Rubin ...
Classic Connection
By Michael Gottliebn
Driving up to meet a client, "Ya just gotta look good," joked Stephen S. Russell, when asked about the close connection that ...
Screening May Prevent 'Imputed Knowledge' Disqualification
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - California law may prohibit a firm from accepting or continuing employment adverse to parties...
Lawmakers Scramble to Approve Bills
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a final rush to pass hundreds of bills by Saturday's deadline, the Legislature sent measures to the governor t...
Orrick Corporate Leader Jumps to Manatt
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Following last week's announcement that as many as 30 Lyon & Lyon lawyers are joining the firm, San Francisc...
Death Penalty Dismays Prosecutors
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Sitting in church one Sunday, Sandra L. Buttitta, Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, was fretting over...
Forget Wireless; Wired Would be Fine
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - If Linda Klee, the top administrator in the San Francisco district attorney's office, wants to calculate her d...
Judge Seized Her Opportunities
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Emily Vasquez is a humble, gracious, quiet woman with an audacious streak that would astonish anyone who is not i...
Courts Agree: Government Buildings Are Not People
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - If you want to commit burglary and maybe get away with it, try breaking into a government building on...
Prominent Biotech Patent Prosecutor Is Leaving Firm
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Ann M. Pease, special counsel to Cooley Godward's intellectual property litigation group, has jumped ship and ...
Banning of Photographer From Court Spotlights State's Rules
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An angry judge's broadside from the bench has drawn attention to California Rule of Court 980, which governs the...
Pledge to Kids
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Margaret Crosby - In striking down the McCarthy-era law that rewrote the Pledge of Allegiance to insert the ...
Dearth of Court Interpreters Deprives People of Justice
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Julia Alanen - In Los Angeles County, an indigent non-English-speaker is unlikely to achieve a meaningful da...