Employee Benefits
Former Executive Loses Pay Bid for Early Retirement
By Draeger Martinez
Charles Whelan, a former executive at airline-meal company Sky Chefs who sued the company over his pension plan, has lost his ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Preparation Puts Money in Clients' Pockets
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Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Jay Berman - While all good attorneys prepare intensely for arbitration or tr...
Family law specialist Carole Cohen has joined Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg as a partner. Cohen, who joined in early February...
Column - Recruiting - By Valerie A. Fontaine and Madeleine E. Seltzer - For a legal search consultant to make the best match b...
In the last two months, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has added four partners, beefing up its employment, business litig...
The Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw recently lost two real estate partners. Todd Stark left the firm for Line...
Breaking out of the gate, a personal injury suit on behalf of a thoroughbred horse rider seemed like a contender. Ken Nelson's...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger contends that California is the big loser in the state's $5 billion Indian-gaming industry. In his ...
Nancy Kennerly has set up her own shop 15 floors below the downtown Los Angeles offices of her former law firm, Paul, Hastings...
SANTA ANA - Thirteen. That's the number of appellate reversals Santa Ana attorney Federico Sayre has won in the last four year...
Fifteen years after the infamous Exxon Valdez ran aground, the oil tanker spewing 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alask...
Electrical and mechanical patents attorney Jonathan E. Jobe is giving up his post as head of Pillsbury Winthrop's San Diego in...
Column - Practice Management - By David Goehl - Jeffrey Carr, the general counsel of FMC Technologies, is part of a new breed ...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Brian S. Kabateck - In January, we observed the 10th anniversary of the 1994 Northridge eart...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The attorney work-product doctrine protected an environmental consulta...
Forum Column - By Rex Darrell Berry - Over the last decade, more and more employers have embraced mandatory pre-dispute arbitr...
LOS ANGELES - A woman can sue Metabolife International Inc. over claims the company's ephedrine-based weight-loss pill drove h...
LOS ANGELES - Every $1 million cut from the Los Angeles Superior Court budget will mean that 3 1/3 courtrooms will close and 2...
SANTA ANA - A man fired from Boeing after company officials accused him of spying on a competitor has sued the aerospace firm ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Erik Cummins - A year ago, law firm partners and recruiters fixed their eyes on a Malibu cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court may have gotten more than it bargained for when it asked lawyers for their two cents a...
SACRAMENTO - The state's Fair Political Practices Commission has proposed fines of as much as $16,000 against three prominent ...
Medical-malpractice plaintiffs' attorneys have been attacking the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act since it passed in 19...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Works Hard to Turn Defendants' Lives Around
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Dealing directly with litigants is the best part of his job, said Commissioner Dennis L. Shanklin, who presides ...
LOS ANGELES - Ten years after California's "three strikes and you're out" law was passed, opponents plan to mount a voter init...
LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney Denise Moehlman deserves a trial in her retaliation suit against the Los Angeles County...
SAN FRANCISCO - Before the first vows were exchanged, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke of his decision to wed same-sex c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Having successfully blocked Justice Department efforts to subpoena hundreds of individual abortion records, la...
SAN FRANCISCO - An emergency regulation implemented in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was struck down Thur...
Employment Column - By Lisa Chapman - On January 1, 2004, California's new Paid Family Temporary Disability Insurance program ...