Corporate
Millionaire Labeled a Thief for Profitable Dip Into Friend's Trust
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - Earlier this year, investor Neil Kadisha was ranked 41 among the Los Angeles Business Journal's 50 richest Angel...
WASHINGTON - In a case that could bring a wave of changes to the world of patent law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday expres...
FORUM COLUMN - By Timothy J. Dowling - If the rule of law and judicial restraint mean anything, they mean victory for Californ...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Review Antitrust Liability Standard
By kristinakg@kgmllp.com
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court expressed concern Tuesday that the federal appeals court in San Francisco may have adopted...
Litigation
Appeals Court Lets Client Sue Attorney for $1 Million Lost in Legal Fight
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate court on Tuesday revived a legal malpractice suit against an Encino attorney whose client claims he goaded h...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco County Superior Court Commissioner Dorothy McMath has been immersed in probate law for two decad...
LANCASTER - As a boy, Robert A. McSorley wanted to be a doctor, not a lawyer. ...
SAN JOSE - The post-Enron rules adopted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are trans...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Ruling Requires Appellate Justices to Write Out Reviews of Criminal Convictions
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The 100 or so justices who sit on California's appellate courts got hit Monday with a mandatory assignment fro...
SAN FRANCISCO - A month after Dorsey & Whitney announced plans to close its San Francisco office, Morgan Lewis & Bocki...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower-court ruling that found Ventura County civilly liable for an u...
FORUM COLUMN - By Jan L. Handzlik - Justice Department policies encourage companies to waive the protections of attorney-clien...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert G. Levy and Dawn N. Valentine - Recent media reports have been filled with news of the corporate back...
WEB EXCLUSIVE - LOS ANGELES - Milberg Weiss, the once-dominant New York class-action firm under criminal indictment for allege...
Family
Ethics Expert Hired to Oversee Changes for Dependency Court Lawyers
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Juvenile Courts Bar Association has hired a legal ethics expert to advise its members on ...
California's medical marijuana law covers pot users on the go, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Corporate
Short Week Turns Out to Be Long on Deals, Setting Another Record
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - Last week, the thinkable happened: The record for the largest leveraged buyout in history fell - ag...
Firm Watch
Escutia Will Join Manatt Next Year to Focus on State, U.S. Government Issues
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Sen. Martha Escutia, who became the first woman to head both the state Senate and the state Assembly Judiciary co...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Thank you for the kind words in your article in Judicial Spotlight ("Thinking for Himself," Oct. 18).
Environmental
Railroads Head to Court Over Regional Pollution Standards
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit that could determine the extent to which regional regulators can control railroad pollution, a major...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer abruptly changed his position Monday to say the state's new sex-offender law app...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Tosses Drug Conviction, Says Judge Coerced Defendant
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has overturned a drug defendant's conviction, finding that the San Bernardino trial judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ronald M. Sabraw, who earned the esteem of the state's legal community for...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Considers Letting Consumers Sue Phone Firms
By kristinakg@kgmllp.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Taking up one of its most important antitrust cases in years, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday wrestled wit...
As a high-school student, Thomas C. Hendrix dreamed of becoming an Air Force pilot. Instead, he became a Marine tank platoon l...
RIVERSIDE - It supposedly started as an agreement between two rival gangs to "jump out," or beat up, a member so he could leav...
Appellate Practice
On Appeal, Criminal Cases Can Get a Little Weird Sometimes
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors give a judge a birthday gift. A prosecutor refers to a defendant as Dennis the Menace. A drunken driver...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Eclipse, O'Connor Merger Creates Full-Service IP Boutique
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - Sometimes, when firms start looking for a merger partner, they call in consultants, draw up lists of specificati...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Gregory Bergman and Kenneth Moscaret - Imagine this current-day courtroom scenario for a moment. A client is...
SACRAMENTO - Assembly Republican Whip Todd Spitzer said last week that Democrats boxed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger into a corne...