Kelley Drye Elects Two Partners in Southern California Office
By Staff Writer
Attorneys Michelle M. La Mar and Robert C. Shenfeld of the Los Angeles office of Kelley, Drye & Warren recently became par...
Growth Costs
By Contributing Writer
Column by Bobbie McMorrow and Ralph Savarese - "Why would you open in Kirkland, Washington, or Austin, Texas?" we asked a mana...
Pop-Up Wars
By Liz Valsamis
For frequent Internet users, pop-up advertisements likely draw a reflex response: Click to close, and then go back to what you...
Consumer Attorneys Stage Annual Vegas Celebration
By Christina Landers
Everyone who's anyone in the Southern California legal community knows the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' annu...
Five Lawyers From Luce Forward Work to Reorganize Burger Kings
By Staff Writer
Five lawyers from Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps helped seven entities that owned and operated 130 Burger King franchis...
Third Time's the Charm for Logistics Buy
By Stefanie Knapp
After two earlier attempts to secure a buyer in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, Software Logistics was finally purchased by CM...
Post-Mortem Publicity Cases Raise Choice-of-Law Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Anthony T. Falzone - Post-mortem publicity rights are strange creatures compared to other species of intelle...
Group Will Honor Victims of Sept. 11
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES -For the first time in a decade, the National Black Prosecutors Association will hold it's annual meeting in Los A...
Court Complains of Case-Law Confusion
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Case law about who can be held liable for conspiracy to breach fiduciary duty is not as clear as it could be, a ...
The PUC Asks Judge Montali to Halt Voting by PG&E's Creditors Because Of What It Calls The Utility's 'Road Show'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been waging an unusually aggressive campaign to defeat the state'...
Court Denies Prosecution's Peremptory Challenge
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors cannot use a peremptory challenge to shop for a new, more sympathetic judge when they refile a case ...
Northrop's TRW Takeover Appears to Be on Course
By Stefanie Knapp
Led by Andrew Bogen, a partner at Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Northrop Grumman appears it will finally succeed i...
Immigration Decision Draws Strong Response
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling that the U.S. government cannot indefinitely detain people who were never formall...
Lawmaker Lobbies for Foster-Care Reform
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - A federal lawmaker, angered by problems in Los Angeles County's child protective system, announced Friday that s...
Paul Hastings Lays Off Four S.F. Lawyers
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the poor economy and a declining stock market, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker laid off four associ...
Caught on Film
By Columnist
BY JOHN EGRI According to the California Energy Commission, 30 percent of a building's cooling requirements are a function of...
Judge Will Let Jurors Consider Drunkenness
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, will...
Not an Entertaining Statute
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - If there were a contest that awarded prizes in the category of civil justice legislation...
Los Altos Law On Solicitation For Day Work Is Overturned
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO -The sidewalks of Los Altos are once again open for business, after a federal judge ordered the city to stop enf...
The Provision
By James Gordon Meek
Here is the complete text of the provision of the new corporate-reform law that imposes new ethical responsibilities on lawyer...
Viewers May See Execution Preparations, Panel Decide
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Since California abolished public executions in 1858, capital punishment gradually has receded from public view,...
Bush Chooses San Diegan for U.S. Attorney
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - President Bush has nominated a Superior Court judge who is also a veteran federal prosecutor to become the U.S. at...
9th Circuit Allows Liberal Discovery In U.S. for Use in Proceedings Abroad
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Edward A. Klein - In deciding the most recent skirmish between microprocessor giants Advanced Micro Devices ...
Mine Games
By Susan Mc Rae
There is nothing on one plain white wall of Ken Crowder's office in a glass-enclosed Century City high-rise except a photo. Fr...
Proxy Fight Tactics
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been waging an unusually aggressive campaign to defeat the state's...
Former Braceros Ask Judge for Justice and Lost Wages
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge appears sympathetic to claims by thousands of Mexican migrant workers that they were cheated o...
SLAPP Ruling Curtails Malicious Prosecution
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could curtail malicious prosecution suits drastically, the state's high court has held that a t...
Not an Entertaining Statute
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - If there were a contest that awarded prizes in the category of civil justice legislation ...
Immigration Decision Draws Strong Response
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling that the U.S. government cannot indefinitely detain people who were never formall...
Post-Mortem Publicity Cases Raise Choice-of-Law Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Anthony T. Falzone - Post-mortem publicity rights are strange creatures compared to other species of intelle...