Forum Column - By Simon A. Cole and William C. Thompson - On Sept. 1, the FBI announced that it was discontinuing the use of C...
LOS ANGELES - Continuing a string of public-corruption cases in Los Angeles County, former Lynwood Mayor Paul H. Richards is s...
LOS ANGELES - Real estate executives are cautiously optimistic about the future of the commercial real estate market, accordin...
Natural Resources
Water-Rights Cases Increase With Population
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Decades ago, anglers on the Trinity River reeled in dozens of salmon. But as farmers downstream from the snakelik...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Jerome Ringler has been named lead plaintiffs' counsel in lawsuits against Metrolink and U...
Firm Watch
Two Antitrust Partners Add to Wilson Sonsini's N.Y. Presence
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is bolstering its antitrust practice with the addition of two highly rega...
Column - By Garry Abrams - "Down on the bayou, after the hurricane, The U.S. House of Representatives spied a lawyer, Running ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America N.A. has agreed to pay as much as $9 million to settle a class action brought by mortgage bro...
LOS ANGELES - The chairman has left the building. David Huebner, a former chairman of Coudert Brothers, departed the fading f...
OFFICE SAN DIEGO - Avnet Inc. signed a 66-month lease for an additional 17,516 square feet of office space at its regional hea...
LOS ANGELES - The beginning of the end for Coudert Brothers came 25 years ago. Alex Coudert's large personality had held the w...
Judges and Judiciary
Rally 'Round Pledge: It Doesn't Threaten Religious Liberty
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - "Have we let some among us make atheism a religion and impose that religion on those...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Bernard S. Kamine - Civil Code Section 3262(b) has been amended to allow the release of a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Everett, a former partner with Limbach & Limbach, has gone to Preston Gates & Ellis' San Fran...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lloyd "Bill" Pellman, a well-connected former Los Angeles county counsel, and Alexander Hamilton, a real esta...
LOS ANGELES - Following a months-long nationwide search, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has chosen the head of its c...
Judges and Judiciary
Senior U.S. District Judge Gives New Meaning to Low-Key
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Robert M. Takasugi enters his courtroom with the least amount of fanfare imaginable. Takasu...
SAN FRANCISCO - State appellate justices have found plenty to pick apart in arguments raised for and against a massive 1999 ag...
SACRAMENTO - The Democratic race for attorney general has ramped up, not with a flurry of promises or slogans but with a volle...
Rachael Simonoff Wexler has joined Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Los Angeles as a partner in the transactional depar...
OFFICE WALNUT CREEK - Beard Land Improvement Co. purchased a 140,000-square-foot office building at 1450 Treat Blvd. for $42 ...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not easy to find a constitutional scholar who understands how a Sacramento federal judge came to strike d...
Labor/Employment
State Revives Workplace Flexibility for Workers' Use of Vacation Time
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - As employers in California are well aware, the state's law is notoriously strict on e...
Labor/Employment
Ruling on Sexual Favoritism: Less Than Meets Fearful Eye
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Christine de Bretteville - On July 18, the state Supreme Court iss...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon & Rees is trying its luck in New York City. The San Francisco law firm, with 10 offices west of th...
LOS ANGELES - Ralph O. Williams III is as deft waxing philosophic on the finer points of mediation as he is playing with a yo-...
LOS ANGELES - An unidentified child who repeatedly threw up at a Chuck E. Cheese's in San Bernardino County spread a stomach v...
Intellectual Property
Judge Who Rebuffed Rambus Won't Let Firm Switch Forum
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Gatos company that lost a patent infringement case in Virginia cannot now transfer a related case from ...
Government
New Chief Deputy City Attorney Focuses on Pushing Delgadillo's Agenda
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' new chief deputy city attorney says he has one primary objective for his office: to push City Attor...
Labor/Employment
Panel Rules Safety Trumps Employee Protections at UPS,
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal appeals panel ruled Thursday that United Parcel Service could block four employees with vision in only on...