Firm Watch
Beer Bribe Opens Door to Law Career for Recent Greenberg Hire
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - The promise of a free lunch was not enough to get John J. Giovannone to sit for the LSAT. A college friend didn'...
Firm Watch
Holland Trusts Practice Continues Flowing Into Luce Forward
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Five more attorneys have defected from Holland & Knight's trusts and estates practice group to join Luce, Fo...
LOS ANGELES - As Newport Beach-based Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth makes its debut in the Los Angeles legal market today...
SAN FRANCISCO - From getting tailed through the streets of Kuala Lumpur to working on the recent land-use scrap over San Franc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Carlos Bea may be the only active federal circuit judge to have faced a deportation order from the U.S. govern...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seattle bankruptcy lawyer Jay Jump saw a spike in business when he hired an outside consultant to arrange word...
LOS ANGELES - While some attorneys are generating new lawsuits in the wake of the indictment of celebrity private eye Anthony ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Caldwell, Leslie, Newcombe & Pettit recently lassoed litigator Linda M. Burrow from Munger...
Forrest Booth has joined Severson & Werson's San Francisco office as a partner in the firm's insurance practice group. Boo...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Christopher Cox was named to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, many critics couldn't resist co...
Labor/Employment
The 'Little Things' Can Cause Big Headaches for Employers
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Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - An employer forgets to put the number of hours worked on a pay stub or rounds t...
Focus Column - By David Garcia and Erica Alterwitz - Very recently, two decisions from the 4th District Court of Appeal have u...
The Los Angeles district attorney should not be disqualified from prosecuting the driver of a deadly car crash that killed th...
Litigation
Jury Awards Santa Monica Bus Accident Victim $2.6 Million
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - Haroun Mehdipour, 79, left his Santa Monica apartment on a spring morning in 2004 to catch the bus to the senio...
Administrative/Regulatory
Neutral Cuts Through Huff, Gruff of Lawyers
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - Venetta S. Tassopulos finds similarities between her former duties as a U.S. magistrate judge and her current ro...
LOS ANGELES - A few years ago, Jay Ford's professional career was dominated by business torts and attorney compensation issues...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel has ruled that a Los Angeles Juvenile Court judge abused his discretion when he ordered...
Appellate Practice
Beat Poet's Widow Can Sue L.A. Jail Over Wrongful Death
By Amelia Hansen
Call it poetic justice. A famous 350-pound Venice Beach beat poet who was jailed for having sexual contact with a teenager, fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - No judge likes it when litigants or lawyers abuse the justice system. Some judges impose sanctions. Others mak...
LOS ANGELES - Three veteran judges have retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench, one effective today and anot...
SUSPENSIONS Bell, Carole A. , London Blankenship, Mark Irvin , Riverside Dell'Osso, Michael , Tracy Dervaes Jr., Scott aka Sco...
LOS ANGELES - The courts have come a long way from landmark civil rights precedents establishing racial and gender equality. T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys routinely hire private investigators to hunt for evidence. Now, following explosive claims of miscon...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The great irony in the gargantuan march of tens of thousands in Los Angeles and othe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed veteran prosecutor Richard M. Goul to the seat on the Los A...
Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Ted M. Sichelman, and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - The year 2006 began with federal courts of ap...
SAN DIEGO - Bernard H. Siegan, a law school professor who counseled Eastern European and South American government officials o...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a senior art director in the marketing department of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Thomas Morris was ins...
LOS ANGELES - There is one thing that lawyers need to remember before appearing in U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert N. Block's cou...
LOS ANGELES - In a move leaving some participants and case observers crying foul, Los Angeles federal prosecutors gave documen...