Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The U.S. Supreme Court rocked the Superfund world in December, ruling ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Legal Counsel Can Help Disciplined Buyers Prevail at Auctions
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Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Louis R. Dienes - An improving economic climate has created a favorable market this winter f...
SAN JOSE - Apple Computer, which for years fought a losing battle against Microsoft Corp. in the personal computer business, ...
SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has ruled that the state's open-meeting act forbids officials from publicly discussing a ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Wanted: attorney with three-to-six years' experience, superior academic credentials and excellen...
LOS ANGELES - Testimony that Phil Spector pulled guns on several women before he allegedly killed actress Lana Clarkson could...
LOS ANGELES - In a reversal of his earlier position, Los Angeles District Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has agreed to a full audit...
Litigation
Entertainment Litigator Moves to Growing Greenberg Traurig
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Rapidly expanding Greenberg Traurig added entertainment litigator John Gatti to its ranks Friday. Gatti has repr...
LOS ANGELES - Hillary Rodham Clinton's former finance director was indicted two years ago in Los Angeles in connection with a...
SAN JOSE - Back when Eugene Premo first took the bench in 1969, San Jose was a sleepy little town and no one had ever heard o...
Appellate Practice
Arthur Andersen Secures Review of Enron Conviction
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether it should overturn accounting firm Arthur Andersen's convi...
SACRAMENTO - In a case of bad timing, the state's criminal defense lawyers have lost their respected lobbyist in the state Cap...
INDUSTRIAL POWAY - Sorrento West Properties Inc. purchased a 72,454-square-foot industrial building at 12889 Gregg Court from ...
LOS ANGELES - As lawyers for Anaheim prepare for court today, local litigators and sports experts were willing to take a swin...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Regulatory zealots have been in the news lately, and not in a way of their choosing. In ...
Labor/Employment
Employers Need to Refine Investigation Process for Bias, Harassment
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Column - Employment Law - By Kenneth C. Hardy - Federal and state legislation and case law make it clear that employers who ha...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Terri R. Brown - In the recently decided case of Robinson Helicopter Co. v. Dana Corp. , 2004 D...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Sunday for Los Angeles personal injury trial attorney Richard C. Du Par. Du ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Phil Spector filed an emergency writ with the state Supreme Court on Thursday, asking to stay the...
Government
AG Nominee Defends Not Applying Geneva Conventions to Detainees
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales on Thursday pledged to comply with all of the United States' domestic a...
Civil Rights
Jurist Will Revisit Case if City Plans to Pack Off Pachyderm Again
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - A judge dismissed the 18-month-old lawsuit to get Ruby the elephant sent home to the Los Angeles zoo, but he pro...
LOS ANGELES - The county of Los Angeles, the city of Inglewood and Culver City sued the city of Los Angeles on Thursday, makin...
Litigation
Shell Will Pay $14.5 Million Fine for Groundwater Contamination
By Tim Willert
SANTA ANA - Shell Oil Co. will pay Orange County $14.5 million for failing to maintain underground gasoline storage tanks at ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for McKesson Corp. argued Thursday that a federal judge should keep confidential an internal repo...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge said Thursday he was not persuaded by arguments that Donald J. Beardslee's constitutional rights w...
LOS ANGELES - Citing attorney-client privilege, and the municipal charter, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has refused to allow...
LOS ANGELES - Renowned forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz contended late Thursday that he quickly learned he had given false tes...
Criminal
Planned Raises Include $50,000 For San Diego District Attorney
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis would get a $50,000-a-year raise under a plan released this week to increase sign...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge John Dearman banged his gavel, something he rarely does. An authoritarian ...
Employee Benefits
Insurer Must Pay Secretary Back Benefits For Disability
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge wrongly upheld an insurer's denial of disability benefits for a Santa Ana legal secretary, th...