Appellate Practice
Panel Blasts Judge for Calling Appellate Court 'Kangaroos'
By Laura Ernden
A warning for trial judges: Don't call your superiors kangaroos. The Sacramento-based 3rd District Court of Appeal blasted a S...
FORUM COLUMN - By Eric M. Acker and David C. Doyle- Even in complex patent cases, a good guy-bad ad guy story still worked wit...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Bay Area man who claims police informants entrapped him into dealing methamphetamine by preying on his menta...
Firm Watch
After Politics, Legislators Make Soft Landing at Large Law Firms
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - With the 109th Congress in the books and substantial changeover after the midterm elections, more than a few law...
LOS ANGELES - A private memorial service is pending for retired Los Angeles County deputy public defender Audrey Ezratty Bresl...
LOS ANGELES - The board of directors for Children's Law Center of Los Angeles has chosen a four-member management team to run ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Laura J. Mazel - A little planning ahead can help businesses navigate new international travel restrictions....
Zoning, Planning and Use
Attorneys Direct Thespians Through Land-Use Drama
By Max Follmer
LOS ANGELES - After years spent in an often-tense face-off with a downtown developer over control of the Los Angeles Theater C...
Judges and Judiciary
With a New Face on High Court, Justices Stay Mostly in Sync
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - With Chief Justice Ronald M. George marking his 10th anniversary at the helm of the California Supreme Court, ...
LOS ANGELES - Fresh from the defeat in November of a divisive ballot measure that would have overhauled eminent-domain laws in...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Antonio R. Sarabia II - The details of the Hewlett-Packard settlement with the Calfiornia Attorney General w...
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appeals court has tentatively thrown out a $3 million libel judgment against a Hesperia-based newspap...
High-Stakes Attorney In Courtroom Is a Hard-Driving Yogi On the Yoga Mat ...
Judges and Judiciary
Hearing Evidence Isn't Necessarily Considering It
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Halley - Controversy over the instructions given to California jurors for weighing mitigating eviden...
Transactions
American Apparel, Frederick's of Hollywood Each Merge With a New York Firm for Public Access
By David Houstonn
DEALS COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - Just in time for Christmas, deal makers last week provided yet more proof sex sells, as a pai...
LOS ANGELES - A. Barry Cappello, managing partner of Santa Barbara's Cappello & Noel, and his wife, Lori Cappello, donated...
Law Practice
Legal World Benefits When Judges, Attorneys Listen to One Another
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Lynn Duryee - Two years ago, as I was poised to begin my tour of duty as the Marin County Superior Court's f...
Intellectual Property
Thorough Exit Interviews Save Intellectual Property
By Andrew Harmon
LOS ANGELES - It's an obvious maxim for any business: Fail to protect your intellectual property, and you may as well give com...
Labor/Employment
McKesson Wins Reduction of $19 Million Verdict for Firing
By Laura Ernden
An appellate court on Tuesday slashed a record-setting $19 million jury verdict against health-care giant McKesson for firing ...
Entertainment & Sports
Dance Lover's Legal Footwork Gets L.A. Ballet on Its Toes
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Bellah Maguire trained in ballet for years, but as a young-adult, opted for Bryn Mawr over dance school...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real called Tuesday for an investigation into how a confidential disc...
Discipline
Milberg Weiss Takes Hits, as It Waits for Its Trial in 2008
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - One gray morning last week, attorney J. Douglas Richards and his partner, Michael Buchman, checked their e-mail ...
Kings County Superior Court Judge Ronald J. Maciel is retiring at the end of the week after sitting on the bench for 18 years.
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner announced the opening of a London office. It is the firm's first office in Europe and ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert C. Barnes - American consumers have learned to dismiss claims of new and improved products as so much...
LOS ANGELES - Stroll past the volleyball courts at Will Rogers State Beach on a given weekday afternoon, and you may see Greg ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Grover Merritt, a veteran San Bernardino prosecutor who contended that District Attorney Mike Ramos fired him...
Firm Watch
Life-Cycle Events: In 2006, Law Firms Continued to Marry, Divorce and Die
By Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - The law firm consolidation trend continued into 2006 and is expected to march on through 2007, according to in...
FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - Like everyone else I took ethics in law school. I then taught it for a couple of semesters, whi...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick to the State Bar Board of Gover...