Breaking the Bank
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Patrick McGinty - While the practice of law comes in many shapes and sizes, all law firms and lawyers share ...
Attorney Pleads Not Guilty to Embezzlement
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney was arraigned Monday on embezzlement charges for allegedly taking money out of client trust a...
Probate Expert Provided Big Comfort Zone at Courthouse
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court probate attorney George Olafson has died. He was 70. Olafson died Aug. 9 in Arcadia, ...
Breaking the Bank
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Patrick McGinty - While the practice of law comes in many shapes and sizes, all law firms and lawyers share ...
Smoker Won't Let Ruling Stand in Way
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Betty Bullock became hooked on cigarettes as a teen-ager in 1956, when smoking was "cool," her attorney, Michael...
Online Database Uncovers Secrets, Fast
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Carole Levitt and Mark E. Rosch - Need an inexpensive, fast database that culls through billions of records ...
When Crime Victims Sue
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS Increasingly over the past decade, lawsuits seeking to hold property owners liable for third-party cri...
Weil Gotshal Gains Patent Pro
By Erik Cummins
With more work than partners can handle, Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley office has hired patent litigator Vernon W...
Stars Are Music To John Branca's Legal Practice
By Katherine Gaidos
John Branca is a superstar music attorney today, but his law practice wasn't always so glamorous. The man who represents Micha...
Who's Who?
By Contributing Writer
Column by Julie Campinini - The biggest mistake counsel make in voir dire is to rely on demographics to drive the strike proce...
Counting the Days
By Columnist
BY REX HIME The California State Assembly continues to struggle in finding ways to reach agreement on a state budget. The late...
First-Years Avoid Axe at Wilson Sonsini, for Now
By Joel Rosenblatt
The next two weeks at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati should be interesting thanks to last Wednesday's firmwi...
Ode to the Broker Poet
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor At lunchtime today, Ed Rosenthal, a vice president in Grubb & Ellis ' investmen...
Days of Learning, Nights of Merrymaking
By Staff Writer
More than 1,600 members of Southern California's consumer bar will descend on Las Vegas this week for four days of continuing ...
Superior Court Jurists Prepare To Vote for Commissioner Post
By Staff Writer
Ballots for the runoff election of one open Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner seat are due Aug. 15. The seat was left va...
A Chance to Gamble and Get Together
By Christina Landers
From doll collectors to advocates for human rights, organizations of nearly every stripe hold some type of annual convention. ...
Two Summer Associates Form 'an Awesome Team'
By Stefanie Knapp
Professor Jim Gash remembers the first time that he saw William Grignon on Pepperdine University School of Law's campus. It wa...
Music Maven Gary Stiffelman Has Many Talents
By Katherine Gaidos
Gary Stiffelman, the second music lawyer to make Ziffren Brittenham's masthead, is wise in the ways of the music industry. Sti...
Entertainment, Sports Attorney Makes the move to Lord Bissell
By Staff Writer
Chicago's Lord, Bissell & Brook has nabbed Arnold Peter from Littler Mendelson. Peter, a partner in the entertainment prac...
Deal Boosts Black Banking Market Across the Nation
By Toni Vranjes
With the help of Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, two banks with headquarters on opposite sides of the country are ...
Las Vegas Gathering Celebrates 20 Years
By Christina Landers
It has been 20 years since the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles held its first three-day convention in Las Vegas,...
More Than Touchdowns Needed Downtown
By Ron Mc Nees
BY GARY PHILLIPS Redevelopment isn't supposed to increase blight, is it? Recently in the city of Los Angeles, there has been ...
Deal Maker Skip Brittenham Is Always Going Up
By Katherine Gaidos
"Hard," "good" and "smart." That's how most people describe Skip Brittenham, a founding partner who has been a deal-making for...
Sam Fischer Is Proof That Nice Guys Finish First
By Katherine Gaidos
Soft-spoken celebrity lawyer Sam Fischer has earned a gentlemanly reputation in a business where such kudos are rare. "He's th...
IP Attorney Abandons Alsius for Partnership at McDermott Will
By Staff Writer
Intellectual property attorney Arlyn Alonzo has joined McDermott, Will & Emery as a partner in the firm's Irvine office. S...
Omnipresence, Brains Guide Ken Ziffren's Success
By Katherine Gaidos
Ken Ziffren has a habit of popping up in some unlikely places. But the results are usually the same. In 1986, he helped media ...
A Phone-To Guy, Cliff Gilbert-Luria Does Star Deals
By Katherine Gaidos
Orlando Jones, star of 7-Up commercials and the film "The Time Machine," recently did a charity guest appearance on a comedy e...
Bench Officer's Retirement Leads Deputy DA, Judge to Run for Seat
By Staff Writer
Another bench vacancy will be created in the Los Angeles Superior Court when Judge Reginald Dunn retires at the end of October...
Veteran of City Hall Joins S.F.'s Hanson Bridgett as Senior Counsel
By Staff Writer
Kimon Manolius, the top administrator in the San Francisco city attorney's office, has left to join Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, ...
Specialists Reveal Secrets to Success
By Christina Landers
Every year at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' popular Las Vegas Convention, there is one panel that is more...