O'Melveny & Myers and Latham & Watkins teamed up to aid digital music provider Napster Inc. as it was acquired by cons...
The EEOC’s most recent Fact Sheet joins a growing body of informal guidance the agency has issued to the public seeking to bet...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Congress Should Address Patent Reform Act's Venue Provision
By Sara Libbyn
Venue reform, part of the Patent Reform Act, would restore credibility and eminence to federal court patent litigation, writes...
Law Practice
Real Estate Mogul Settles Civil, not Criminal Probe into Backdating
By Gabe Friedmann
Web Exclusive - The former CEO of KB Home resolved federal civil allegations that he backdated stock options on Monday, but hi...
Latham & Watkins has snagged an Ernst & Young partner for its Bay Area tax department.
Law Practice
Heller Ehrman, Mayer Brown Merger Is Off
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
Merger talks between Heller Ehrman and Mayer Brown dissolved over the weekend after as many as 40 attorneys, including two key...
Despite early indications that Metrolink was responsible for the deadliest train crash in 15 years, plaintiffs' attorneys expe...
Though John McCain constantly derides earmarks as evil, many earmark originate with an ordinary group of citizens seeking to f...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
South L.A. Clinics May Lose Tobacco Settlement Funds
By Evan George
County supervisors today will consider how much tobacco settlement money they should give to the county's free clinics, or whe...
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Corporate Counsel
A Q&A With M&A's Lady of Steel ... and Aluminum and Alloy
By Jonathan Vaniann
"We believe that we can enhance shareholder value by growing the company through acquisitions," said Kay Rustand, vice preside...
Attorney Steve Spitz found an antidote to his stressful life of turmoil - train for a triathlon. Now he's dropped 90 pounds, w...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre charged former Centre City Development Corp. president Nancy Graham with thre...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Joint Mediation Can Help Reconcile Those Torn Apart by Litigation
By Sara Libbyn
Joint mediation sessions allow parties to collaborate to resolve the problem they share — the litigation itself — without the ...
A federal judge said Friday he would not dismiss a class action against Apple Inc. over allegations the company violated feder...
A tumultuous path to the O'Melveny & Myers chairmanship ended for A.B. Culvahouse Jr. last week, with the confirmation of ...
It's amazing how much legal work you can actually accomplish when you stop checking your e-mail every 30 seconds, writer Nora ...
A controversial immunity law will be put into play this week as the government moves to dismiss more than three dozen lawsuits...
Web Exclusive - Jamie A. Jacobs has been elected presiding judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. She'll take over in...
China is one of the most dynamic legal systems in the worlds, and there are clear indications that it is taking sexual harassm...
Nearly a year after it appeared the nation's most expensive clergy abuse case had settled, a new legal quarrel is brewing over...
Physical fitness buff Gerard S. Brown, who spends his lunch hours at the gym, brings an energy to the Chino court bench tha...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Greenberg Traurig grows its business reorganization and bankruptcy practice in Los Angeles.
Judge David M. Gill is always on the job - even driving his car over an embankment in the rain didn't deter him from showing...
“What more fitting than a day like today, when we mourn the loss on Sept. 11 … and at the same time honor and respect those me...
A loophole in state law allows Los Angeles city building officials to ignore a once-celebrated crackdown on landlords who expo...
When he settles a case, Riverside neutral James D. Ward says, he feels like he just hit a home run. ...
The owners of a hilltop avocado ranch above the village of La Conchita have agreed to turn over their property, farm equipment...
Acts wholly performed in another country that would otherwise be infringement here are beyond the scope of the Copyright Act, ...