San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy has a substantial health care practice with 15 lawyers focusing ex...
Michelle Lee Flores has joined Greenberg Traurig where she will be a member of the firm's labor and employment practice. The ...
Firm Watch
Archer Norris Gains Asbestos Litigator From Strickland Haapala
By Staff Writer
Christopher Harnett, formerly a name partner with Oakland's Strickland, Haapala, Altura, Harnett & Thompson, has joined W...
Charlie Read has rejoined Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers after a three-year stint working with Steptoe & Johnson's ene...
VersusLaw Inc. introduced a new line of legal research tools Oct. 29. A user can choose between three different subscription ...
The Women Lawyers of Alameda County honored Herma Hill Kay, the first female dean of Boalt Hall, with its lifetime achievemen...
Although biotechnology work has dropped off measurably since the late 1990s, it remains a robust practice, according to Fenwic...
With 13,000 members and 43 local chapters across the United States and abroad, the American Corporate Counsel Association is t...
In what is being hailed as an unprecedented victory for part-time employees in California, 6,000 current and former United Par...
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy elevated Sally Agel to partner, the firm announced Nov. 5. Agel has been at Milbank Tweed...
Litigation
Voters Help Three Prosecutors Reach the L.A. County Bench
By Leslie Simmons
Voters elected three veteran criminal prosecutors and a State Bar judge to the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench on Nov...
The state of California has something waiting for all the businesses out there. More regulations. Spurred by the uproar over t...
When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's partnership got together at the Marriott Hotel in San Mateo Nov. 8-10, the agenda wasn'...
Litigation
Commission Unveils Model Rule For Lawyers as Third-Party Neutral
By Stefanie Knapp
The CPR-Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards in ADR released the "Model Rule of Professional Conduct for the Lawyer ...
Litigation
Retired Judge Travels to Ukraine, Lectures to Jurists and Students
By Stefanie Knapp
The State Department sent retired San Diego County Superior Court Judge Milton Milkes to Ukraine on Oct. 26 for a 21-day visi...
In Closing Column - By Gerald F. Phillips - Doctors associated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center give patients a publication ti...
Firm Watch
SEC Chooses Baker Attorney for New Accounting Oversight Board
By Staff Writer
The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Baker & McKenzie's Daniel L. Goelzer to the five-member Public Company A...
Lured by a partnership offer from Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, Kevin Corbett has left the Los Angeles office of Ma...
Firm Watch
Winthrop Couchot Inks Five-Year Lease for Newport Beach Office
By Staff Writer
Winthrop Couchot has signed a five-year lease for 12,500 square feet of office space in Newport Beach to accommodate the firm...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court judges have elected Judge Robert L. Dondero to be the court's next assistant presiding judge. ...
LOS ANGELES - Critics of the Homeland Security Act are celebrating after a Los Angeles federal judge issued a sweeping ban aga...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jeffrey Brill - In Bogese, the Federal Circuit upheld the authority of an adm...
Cutting-edge technology doesn't mean a thing if you don't have the cold, hard cash to support it. So La Jolla biotechnology co...
Entertainment & Sports
Infield Fly Rule Pales Next to Ball Dialectics
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - After hearing a dozen days of evidence, two days of argument and expert opinions from four law professors, th...
SAN FRANCISCO - There has never been anything like it in a bankruptcy court. Trial opens today in the largest utility bankrupt...
Litigation
Defendant Can Utilize Motion for an Undertaking to Enforce Award of Costs
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Brian T. Hafter - Given the difficulty often experienced in enforcing cost awards against out-o...
LOS ANGELES - The waiting is always the hardest part. On Wednesday, members of John Marshall High School's mock-trial teams an...
State Bar & Bar Associations
African-American Was First on State Bar Board
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Edwin J. Wilson, the first black lawyer to practice in Long Beach and the first African-Am...
LOS ANGELES - Agreeing to pay the largest fine ever levied by state regulators against a full-service health plan, Kaiser Foun...
SAN FRANCISCO - Services for John F. Cruikshank Jr., a judge and lawyer who was beloved to both bench and bar throughout the E...