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...
Judges and Judiciary
Questions Narrow on Right to Jury Trial Under Unfair-Competition Law
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By John N. Quisenberry and Fernando A. Vicente - This year was busy for reviewing courts in examining the Calif...
LOS ANGELES - It's not easy being a small-firm lawyer with a big-time client base. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Diana R. Hall's removal from the Santa Barbara County bench this month may have been a rarity for the state's ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Since departing DLA Piper's Silicon Valley office for the relatively nascent San Francisco outpost of Payne &a...
James Lavell Harris had used marijuana all his life for chronic pain. So when he was sentenced to serve time in the Lake Count...
Public Interest
Theater-Loving Lawyer Lends a Helping Hand to Nonprofit
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - For a theater-lover like Greg Conklin, it was a natural fit. A transplanted New Yorker who saw lots of plays t...
Judges and Judiciary
Supreme Court Is Poised to Veer From 2006's Narrow Unanimity
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Long on intrigue but short on blockbuster decisions, 2006 was something of an intermission year at the U.S. Supre...