Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Has Tried His Hand At Prosecuting, Defending
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Arthur M. Lew got a judicial appointment when he least expected it. The news ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for an alleged beating victim of San Francisco police officers Alex Fagan Jr. and Walter Contreras sai...
SAN JOSE - Idelle Clarke, a Southern California woman locked in a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband, has not seen he...
SAN FRANCISCO - While other U.S. law firms are trimming their corporate and transactional groups through layoffs and attritio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Norlen Drossel will be remembered at a Feb. 8 service at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. The...
LOS ANGELES - Less than two years ago, Igor Serebryany was ranked at the top of his graduating class at the Los Angeles Cente...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Peter Stern and Becky Kruse - In December 2000, Federal Rule of Evidence 703 was amended to clo...
LOS ANGELES - A Glendale couple reportedly has agreed to pay $8 million to 27 tenants who sued them over living conditions, in...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Monday set aside $9 million of a jury's $9.8 million damage verdict agai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Cohen, the California Public Utilities Commission's top lawyer through much of the state's energy crisis...
Focus Column - International Law - By Winston Zee - Doing business in China frequently involves entertainment, favors and gift...
SAN FRANCISCO - California free speech law is at a crossroads: Apparently it's OK for Santa Cruz peace activists to drape ant...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Alternative Weeklies Agree to Settlement
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Village Voice Media and New Times Media have settled a Department of Justice antitrust complaint over the altern...
Judges and Judiciary
Complex-Case Judges Say They Know Hellholes and They're Not in One
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The six judges of Los Angeles Superior Court's Central Civil West Courthouse have unanimously objecte...
SANTA ANA - When Army reservist Marc Buckler was called to active duty last month as a part of the U.S. military's preparatio...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles appellate court has reversed a $6 million punitive damage award against a vehicle parts manufactu...
WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federa...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday asked defense attorneys representing 2,000 Southland auto mechanic...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Michael A. Jacobs and William I. Schwartz started Morrison & Foerster's intellectual property group ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contrary to appearances that a grand jury convening today may examine a high-level police cover-up, District ...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Earlier this month, opening briefs were filed in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bolling...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court breathed new life Monday into a suit claiming that a San Diego area prison cheated not on...
SACRAMENTO - A measure that lawmakers hope will satisfy the courts and restore power to the California Coastal Commission too...
SANTA ANA - Carl Holmes cracks a smile as he recalls the sign that the end was near. One morning, Holmes took a quick glance ...
SAN JOSE - By accepting civil commitment at Atascadero State Hospital, a habitual child molester who had himself surgically c...
WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federal...
San Francisco's Gordon & Rees ended 2002 with the acquisition of Colin H. Murray as a partner from the San Diego office o...
Firm Watch
Hoge Fenton Entices Additional Land Use Attorney Into the Fold
By Staff Writer
The Pleasanton office of Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel has acquired another land use attorney for its growing practice ther...
By Liz Valsamis John C. "Jack" McBride is returning to Los Angeles after spending five years in New York as the general couns...
Firm Watch
O'Melveny & Myers Laterals In a Pair of Telecommunications Stars
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has added two telecommunications partners to its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announ...