SANTA CLARA - California lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison recently h...
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Impac Medical Systems Inc. of Mountain View made its well-received debut on the Nasdaq market last month, repr...
ALAMEDA - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed the first Chinese-American woman to the Alameda County Superior Court. Lo-Lynne Q. Lee...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Gray Cary is upping its bet on battered East Coast technology companies by transplanting partner Margaret H...
Focus Column - Expert Witnesses - By Scott P. DeVries - A complex civil case frequently turns into a battle of the experts. Nu...
CONTRA COSTA - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Douglas Cunningham is planning a retirement that's not far different f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tegic Communications Corp. scored another legal victory Nov. 14 when a federal judge in San Francisco denied Z...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Alfred Chiantelli has joined the Northern California panel of Action Dispute Resolution Services. Chiant...
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1995, attorney Jeffrey Chanin, a partner at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, took on what appeared to...
LOS ANGELES - Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White asked Martha Gooding to join a pro bono case on her first day at the firm. By ...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan should immediately convene a grand jury to investigate three off-duty poli...
Law firms in Orange County have found a way to weather the economic storm, with only six firms in this year's Top 20 losing at...
SAN FRANCISCO - The whole thing started in a Noe Valley cul-de-sac. A homeowner there wanted to build a new deck. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Reins In Expectations for New Year
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The California Judicial Council knows when to beg and when to be happy with what it has. With state government fa...
LOS ANGELES - Actress Winona Ryder may be spending the next four months tape-recording Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," sup...
LOS ANGELES - Hughes Electronics Corp. of El Segundo has named Larry D. Hunter as its new general counsel. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sexual harassment prevention is largely ignored at law schools such as Boalt Hall because men dominate the fa...
SACRAMENTO - Trial courts and the state judiciary will share the pain of more than $10 billion in spending cuts being propose...
Forum Column - By Jeff Lowe - Lost in the national debate over Medicare reform and affordable prescription drugs is the tragic...
Corporate
Scope of Manager's Privilege Hinges on Subjective Intent of the Advisor
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Clyde M. Hettrick and Steven C. Valerio - Rather than punishing a party to a contract with ex...
LOS ANGELES - They may not pass some watchdogs' "smell test," but there is nothing wrong with the $1.25-million in Los Angeles...
LOS ANGELES - UCLA law professor Susan Prager is one of five finalists to become president of Florida State University, accord...
WASHINGTON - A lot of changes have occurred in the 11 years since Justice Clarence Thomas succeeded Justice Thurgood Marshall ...
LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California Law School Associate Dean Karen Lash is leaving the post she founded to join W...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has published its ruling that cities are free to deny taxpayer subsidies to groups th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate ruling threatening dozens of oil leases off the California coast hands the companies invo...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By David Brent Jones - For the successful employer with 15 or fewer employees who wants to make maxim...
SAN FRANCISCO - When voters revamped the state Commission on Judicial Performance in 1994, they clearly wanted a major change...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Washington, D.C., federal appellate court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a class action o...
Focus Column - Public Relations - By David Silver - Like a relentless avalanche, one corporate scandal after another has tumbl...