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...
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney general's race didn't work. The campaign for state treasurer wasn't a good fit either. But now J...
LOS ANGELES - Roger O. Thornill, the lead character in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "North by Northwest" is kidnapped, drugge...
SAN FRANCISCO - He said people wouldn't be happy with his ruling, and they aren't. The public furor over U.S. District Judge ...
RETAIL SAN DIEGO - A 17,943-square-foot retail condominium complex located on the ground floor of Laurel Bay, a mixed-use resi...
WASHINGTON - John G. Roberts Jr. has not revealed much about how he will act on the Supreme Court if confirmed, but he did giv...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Legislating a Density Bonus To Boost Affordable Housing
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Kristina Lawson - Following passage in August by the state Assembly and Senate, on Sept. 2, G...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Class Arbitrations Need Mandatory Set of Procedures
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Drew Paris - The U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle , 539 U.S. 444, ruling spark...
Law Practice
Increasingly Frail Attorney-Client Privilege Requires More Support
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Raymond J. Tittmann - Recent court decisions around the country erode confidence in the attorney-client priv...