Technology & Science
Attorney Discovers Calling, Becomes Professional Neutral
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Matthew P. Guasco was a mediator of sorts, even as a child. "My mother was a very, very challenging woman," said...
Litigation
Judge Allows Rejected Korean Heir to Proceed With Lawsuit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The son of one of the wealthiest businessmen in Korea, who claims he was wrongly stripped of his inheritance, can...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Mary Cranston was a young San Francisco lawyer angling to become a top antitrust trial attorney, she loo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired U.S. District Judge Fern M. Smith of the Northern District has joined JAMS. Smith, who left the bench ...
Intellectual Property
IP Lawyer Rejoins Former Brobeck Colleagues at Dewey
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - After five years in-house at a San Diego biotech company, Noemi "Nicky" Espinosa has joined Dewey Ballantine'...
MULTIFAMILY RIVERSIDE - BRE Properties Inc. acquired a 432-unit apartment complex for $75.8 million. The San Francisco-based m...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles immigration judge has ruled that a transgender woman, diagnosed as HIV positive, can remain in the...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - A fundamental tenet of mainstream journalism in the United States is that reporters should st...
Focus Column - Buisness Law By Leonard M. Shulman and James R. Sechrist - Routinely in a commercial lending context, one hears...
Corporate
Los Angeles Jurors Award Two Insurance Companies $2 Million in Legal-Malpractice Verdict
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury awarded two insurance companies $1.9 million this week in a legal malpractice verdict. The ju...
Education
Participation in State Bar's Unique Lawyer Assistance Program Grows
By Amy Spees
SAN FRANCISCO - Millbrae attorney Jeff Greenwald hit rock bottom when his methamphetamine supplier borrowed and wrecked the ca...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Metropolitan Transit Authority must pay $6 million to a man who was rendered a paraplegic in a cra...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Cleared Way for Suit Against Police During Rampart Scandal
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Court Judge William "Bill" J. Rea of Los Angeles died Wednesday. He was 85. Court spokeswoman June...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's initiative process conjures noble images of grassroots, power-to-the-people direct democracy. In...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The children's story about the emperor who had no clothes is a close parallel to the Enron scandal....
WASHINGTON - When political activists have spent years preparing for a controversial Supreme Court nomination, what do they do...
Law Practice
Law Firms Begin Training Attorneys to Communicate in Court in Clear, Simple English
By Victoria Fine
LOS ANGELES - Attorney David Weinstein doesn't believe in highfalutin speech when making his case in court. "Before I went to ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Investor Crescent Will Buy 50 Percent Stake in Village Roadshow's Companies
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Entertainment-industry investor Crescent Film Holdings has agreed to acquire a 50 percent stake in the companies...
SACRAMENTO - When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special election, he likened California's need for an unscheduled vote o...
INDUSTRIAL FULLERTON - CT Realty Corp. sold an industrial building, located at 800 S. Raymond Ave., to Gholam Hossein Sadaghia...
SAN FRANCISCO - For California, the huge energy bill passed by Congress late last week may be most readily defined by what it ...
Judges and Judiciary
Police Should Err on Side of Protecting Constitutional Rights
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - I can still remember the relative freshness of the holding in Miranda v. Arizona , 38...
Immigration
Mexican Demographic Trends Show Emigration to United States Will Slow
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Matthew Dowd - With 6 million Mexicans living illegally in the United States, some Americans, particularly t...
Appellate Practice
Splits Among Federal Circuits Deepen on Procedural Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - In June, f...
LOS ANGELES - Clifford J. Meyer, a mentor to a generation of attorneys at Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, has died. Me...
Corporate
Corporate Lawyers Like Roberts for His Business Knowledge
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Law professor Warren Grimes believes Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts could be a catalyst for the high cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Although gay advocates lauded Monday's state Supreme Court ruling that businesses must treat registered same-...
Judges and Judiciary
Referee Turns Going to Court Into Meaningful Experience
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Everett Fields thought about following his grandfather, W. C. Fields, into show business - for a few minutes. H...
SAN DIEGO - Vietnamese Buddhist monks who claimed that their neighbors' religious hostility led to the shutdown of their servi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split stridently along its ideological fault line Tuesday over federal l...