SanDisk to Pay $1.55 Billion For Israel-Based Msystems
TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT - On the day jury selection was scheduled to start, attorneys in the PCO v. Shapiro case reached a tentat...
The far-off Pacific island of Bougainville is no stranger to major historical events. There, in World War II, American fighter...
SAN FRANCISCO - The national labor and employment law firm Littler Mendelson announced Monday the acquisition of San Jose-base...
Judges and Judiciary
Test? What Test? Courts Leave Policies to Prison Officials
By David Minkown
Focus Column - The government giveth and the government taketh away." This phrase pretty well sums up the Supreme Court's rece...
SACRAMENTO - Sloat, Higgins, Jensen & Associates is not a firm familiar to most lawyers in California. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Court's Kids' Place Celebrates Fourth Anniversary
By Victoria Fine
LOS ANGELES - Going to court is rarely fun. But for four years, Kids' Place has turned thousands of court appearances for adul...
Judges and Judiciary
Early Morning Electrical Fire Shuts L.A.'s Central Civil West Courthouse
By Victoria Fine
LOS ANGELES - An electrical fire early Monday closed the Central Civil West Courthouse near downtown Los Angeles. The courthou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three minority-owned legal recruiting firms have been tapped by the California Minority Counsel Program to pro...
Forum Column - Many attorneys who are parents of special needs children find that the prospect of coordinating services, arra...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Law-Firm Mergers Decline Slightly in First Half of 2006
By Michelle Garcia
Law-firm mergers nationwide were down slightly in the first half of 2006, according to new data from Hildebrandt International...
Billboards do not have a "right to be seen,' the state's high court unanimously ruled Monday. ...
Entertainment & Sports
Judge Strips PlayPen of Claim 'Grand Theft Auto' Infringed
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Carl "CJ" Johnson, the drug-dealing, hooker-killing, car-stealing hooligan in the video game "Grand Theft Auto: ...
LOS ANGELES - Kent B. Goss, a Los Angeles-based partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, is departing the firm to join Orri...
Wearing his cowboy boots and driving his pickup, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mike Camacho is learning the ropes in his ne...
LOS ANGELES - Whether he was musing over the latest revelations in the Suge Knight case, expounding on the in-fighting among W...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case closely watched across the country, a Bay Area public television station is challenging the Bush adm...
Forum Column - When Jeannette Popp's daughter was murdered, her whole world turned upside down. ...
LOS ANGELES - After losing several senior lawyers in the past year, San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss is bouncing ba...
Law Practice
Paul Hastings Welcomes Head of Water Agency, Back in Law
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - Ronald Gastelum, a former president and chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern C...
Law Practice
Entertainment Litigator Leaves Richards for Mitchell Silberberg
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - Gary Gans, former head of the entertainment litigation practice at Richards, Watson & Gershon, has joined Mi...
The former chair of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough's toxic-tort group lateraled to Gordon & Rees in San Francisco in Jun...
Litigation
'Pfizer' Establishes Further Limits on Plaintiffs in Class Actions
By David Minkown
Focus Column - Because it has been so easy to plead and difficult to defend against, California's Unfair Competition Law has l...
Letter to the Editor - In response to my article "For Former ACLU Chief, July 4th Means Celebrating Fight Against Abuses," (Da...
Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Friday that Mary Jo Graves, a specialist in DNA evidentiary issues, will be the new ch...
Large Firms
Can Dykema Succeed Where Others Have Failed at Satellites in Los Angeles?
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - Caldwalader Wickersham & Taft. Debevoise & Plimpton. Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. Shearman...
LOS ANGELES - Nine years, a few Mexican movies and something like $64.3 million later, attorney Barry Fisher still is tracking...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Presiding Judge George Hernandez is aiming to streamline operations in his civil courts by conv...
In a finding that could lead to a jurist's removal from the bench, a three-judge panel has agreed with state Commission on Jud...
SACRAMENTO - A coalition of crime victims, prison guards and taxpayers attacked the governor Monday, opening day of a special ...