Following an extensive negotiation process, the San Fernando Swap Meet is in the hands of new owners, and the 34-acre lot one ...
HEMET - Pacific Coast Capital Partners and its affiliate, Redwood Capital Finance Co. , closed a $17.5 million senior loan to...
Michelle Hallsten left Pillsbury Winthrop at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000 only to return when the bubble burst. Hall...
Sterling Brennan, who served as managing partner of Morrison & Foerster's Orange County office for the last 2 1/2 years, h...
Two Florida-based real estate firms are buying Newhall Land & Farming Co., a major Southern California developer, for $990...
With a car license plate that reads "MAY GOLF," one would think former San Diego County Superior Court Judge Robert E. May cou...
Daily Journal Extra Feature - The GenRich account for 10 percent of the American population; they all carry synthetic genes - ...
Encino's Greenberg & Bass has added Edwin Duncan, a litigator with a diverse business practice, the firm announced in July...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Motivations in Negotiation Process Influence Outcome
By Contributing Writer
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - Parties in the middle of a legal dispute often claim, "It's not ...
Clifford Hyatt has moved his securities-litigation practice to the Los Angeles office of Chadbourne & Parke. Hyatt joined ...
The motto for west Riverside County's Norco is "City Living in a Rural Atmosphere." Much of the municipality, with a populatio...
DVI Business Credit Inc. has won a $20 million judgment in a hotly contested breach-of-contract case between the Newport Beach...
LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn's separation from his wife, Monica Hahn, becomes permanent, the divorce likely w...
Several companies went public in the past few weeks, continuing the revival in the initial public offering market. The latest ...
As The Scene walked into the historic Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, The Scene quickly realized that the $75 admission was a ...
Litigation
Civil Rights Verdict, Anti-Sweatshop Settlement Earn Trial Teams Award
By Karen Coleman
The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation recognized 14 lawyers who led a rare civil rights verdict against the FBI and ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Relentless Hostile Suitor Eyes Betrothed Company
By Toni Vranjes
PeopleSoft Inc. has closed its $1.8 billion acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co., but PeopleSoft's hostile suitor Oracle Corp...
Within the last few weeks, four litigation partners parted ways with the Los Angeles offices of Howrey Simon Arnold & Whit...
Litigation
'Safe Harbor' Shields Actions Taken Under Laws Later Declared Invalid
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By David Martinez - The so-called "safe harbor" defense to claims brought under the state's unfair...
Forum Column - By Joshua Spivak - After spending much of its existence in virtual slumber, the recall is emerging as a serious...
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Barry J. Thompson and Kevin G. Lohman - Can mere membership in a trade association or donations t...
LOS ANGELES - Shaw Pittman is parting ways with 12 corporate lawyers who joined the Century City office of the firm in July 20...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge David Garcia, who retired last week, will join JAMS. The private dispute-resolution firm ...
Judges and Judiciary
Years as Educator Taught Jurist Patience on Bench
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Margaret M. Bernal used to call Gerald N. Mansfield "Mr. Mansfield," but that was when he was her high-school he...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Treatment Complicates Release of Sex Predator
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - A drug regimen designed to keep violent sexual behavior in check but which also may be weakening Cary Verse's bones...
Judges and Judiciary
Gadfly Says Public Means Public Even for the Courts
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - He's a newsman's newsman, an irrepressible defender of the First Amendment who has become a stone in the shoe ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the largest legal malpractice awards ever in California, a San Mateo County judge has hit a prominen...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday cleared tobacco giant Philip Morris of negligence and misrepresentati...
Employment Column By Deanna M. Wilkinson It's finally August. Summer programs are in their final stages, and within the next ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Preliminary Relief Is Difficult, But Not Impossible, to Obtain
By Columnist
Focus Column - Antitrust Law - By Matthew L. Cantor - Consider the following hypothetical: A small business has developed an i...