A federal appellate court's dismissal of an Orange County couple's bid for same-sex marriage rights was met with a sigh of rel...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a page from IBM's playbook, the California Legislature could decide this year whether to create a state...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Cypers joined Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Los Angeles office from Heller Ehrman as a partner. Cypers,...
LOS ANGELES - GE Real Estate has completed its acquisition of Arden Realty Inc., the largest publicly-traded office landlord i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kevin O'Keefe sat hunched over his Powerbook G4 in the ballroom of San Francisco's Pan Pacific Hotel last week...
Government Contracts
Bush Picks Another L.A. Judge for the Central District Bench
By David Houstonn
For the second time in as many weeks, President Bush nominated a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to fill a seat on the...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Single-Payer Bill Must Be Passed to Provide Health Care for All
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - As the Bush administration continues to ignore the national health insurance and health ca...
Labor/Employment
Avoiding Legal Hassles With Unworkable Co-Workers and Toxic Bosses
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - A large majority of workplace disputes arise from mere interpersonal conflict. Studie...
Focus Column - By Bill Detamore and Bob Dove - When a general counsel is presented with a bill for electronic discovery, a typ...
LOS ANGELES - A Sherman Oaks couple has won a $1.8 million settlement from the city of Glendale and a national anti-fraud orga...
LOS ANGELES - The entire Los Angeles Superior Court bench has been recused from a lawsuit alleging that judges have been colle...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Going Global to Mix Diplomacy and Arbitration
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - International lawyer, scholar, arbitrator and former federal judge Abraham D. Sofaer just got back from a busi...
LOS ANGELES - Twice a week, during lunch, three lawyers drive from downtown Los Angeles to San Gabriel, take off their suits, ...
Amid cost-cutting measures following a merger that doubled his firm's size, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's new chairman-ele...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles city ordinance ostensibly adopted to protect grocery workers, as well as health and safety standar...
Judicial Profile
Solving the Puzzles of Law in an L.A. Misdemeanor Court
By Leslie Simmonsn
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rex A. Heeseman knew he wanted to be a lawyer when he was in junior high school...
WASHINGTON - The sun may finally be setting on the Bush administration's controversial nomination of William G. Myers III to t...
LOS ANGELES - For weeks, the partners at Los Angeles' Christensen Miller law firm have struggled to maintain a united front in...
SANTA ANA - Criminal defense attorneys have an ethical duty to zealously represent their clients, and that zeal often ramps up...
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - A week ago Monday morning, I was sitting in a class with 13 enthusiastic, new judicial officer...
Focus Column - By Catherine W. Johnson - Last year, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a new accounting standard ...
Forum Column - By Brian J. Finn - As an attorney whose practice focuses in large part on advising real-estate professionals an...
It took a seven-year legal battle to return the "Mona Lisa of Austria" to a family in Los Angeles County. And if the Nazis had...
Law Practice
Strategic Alliances Provide U.S. Law Firms With an International Footprint
By William Arthur Haynes
Since its inception 15 years ago, Greenberg Traurig's objective has been to gain a foothold in growing markets and key financi...
Judges and Judiciary
Watchdog Agency Charges Judge With Misconduct
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency Wednesday charged Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman ...
LOS ANGELES - Governments could be held liable in international dealings with foreign investors if U.S. courts uphold a $1 bil...
Judges and Judiciary
Murder Convict Says His Ties to Office Led DA to Be Overzealous
By Itir Yakarn
Chief Justice Ronald M. George suggested Wednesday that the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office was too harsh on a murder d...
Administrative/Regulatory
High Court's Brilliance Shines in Probate Decision
By Garry Abramsn
LOS ANGELES - Thanks to former Playboy Playmate of the Year and onetime-stripper Anna Nicole Smith, we're going to be hearing ...
Milene Yerke is eminently practical. She has done whatever she needed to in order to survive and support herself. At various t...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Congress is once again trying to stop water from running downhill. This metaphor describes t...