LOS ANGELES - A Long Beach man once accused of being the "Belmont Shore Rapist" can keep a $1.75 million judgment against the ...
Labor/Employment
2002 Saw Enactment of Many New State and Federal Employment Laws
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By John P. LeCrone - This year has been a busy one for state and federal lawmakers, particular...
Focus Column - By Amir H. Raubvogel - A reissue application allows a patentee to seek broader claims for a patent that already...
WASHINGTON - The anticipated re-nomination of Charles W. Pickering to the federal appellate court could be in deep trouble. Th...
IBM Corp. has agreed to buy a Silicon Valley software company for $2.1 billion in cash. The target company, Rational Software ...
Robin Wofford has ended a 16-year stint at San Diego's Duckor, Spradling & Metzger to join Wilson, Petty, Kosmo & Turn...
At a time when many nonprofits are complaining about slumping membership rolls and donations, the California Minority Counsel ...
Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May has lost two more partners, this time as a direct result of its planned merger with Pittsburgh...
Bruce S. Ross will be the new executive partner of Tampa-based Holland & Knight's Los Angeles office at the beginning of t...
Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law firm in the country, honored 13 attorneys and nine others at its annual volunteer awa...
Endless articles have been written about how to get to arbitration and what to do after you arrive to present a persuasive and...
Warren Lazarow, a corporate partner at San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and a member of Forbes Magazine's 2002 ...
The Macerich Co. has sold 15.2 million shares of common stock in a public offering, which will help the real estate investment...
An online dating service cons lonely men out of money and leaves them brokenhearted, a class action filed on behalf of a law c...
Veteran Los Angeles trial lawyer John Lawler has long wanted to open a Northern California office of Murchison & Cumming. ...
"It's not over till it's over." Attorney A. Barry Cappello's motto, made famous by baseball great Yogi Berra, rang true in a t...
One Monday morning in late October, attorney Arturo J. Gonzalez entered his office at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster,...
A little less than a year after Laurence Pretty and his law firm Pretty & Schroeder joined Christie, Parker & Hale, he...
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo appointed Thomas A. Russell as the managing assistant of the Harbor division of the city attorn...
In Closing Column - By Kate Fitzgerald - Come the first of the year, law firms will pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into...
Oliver "Lock" Holmes, a respected name in government contracts law, has followed two prominent figures in Bay Area politics to...
A recent ruling in an intellectual property lawsuit may signal the turning of the tide in cyberspace piracy, the plaintiffs' l...
Judges and Judiciary
Some Judges Change Courtrooms Under New Rule on Assignments
By Karen Coleman
The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for 2003 are the first since the state Judicial Council implemented a new rule ...
Upon college graduation, Wess Gates landed a dream job when Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. offered him a position as an assoc...
If the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had better procedures for communicating with hearing impaired suspects, then 22...
Small, incremental layoffs and buyouts seem to be the thing at cost-conscious Pillsbury Winthrop, where another 12 nonlawyer s...
SACRAMENTO - Lawyers representing California's small cities want the state's political watchdog agency to amend its new confl...
LOS ANGELES - A partner at Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has been hit with a lawsuit by Mercury Air Gr...
LOS ANGELES - Isuzu Motors manufactured a defective sport utility vehicle that flipped when its driver swerved to avoid hittin...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In Grutter v. Bollinger , 288 F.3d 732 (6th Cir. 2002), the 6th U.S. Circuit Court...