VENTURA - Defense counsel has called the prosecution "felons, pure and simple." A prosecutor has suggested that the defense co...
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar and its union begin talks today with a federal mediator after six months of intense negotiations...
Forum Column - By Tom Giovanetti - If the study of public policy teaches us anything, it is that political solutions usually h...
WASHINGTON - In a case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether police officers may ...
Firm Watch
Legal, Business Consultant Takes Practice to La Bella & McNamara
By Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - After working as an executive for two San Diego sporting goods firms and as a legal and business consultant, Andre...
SANTA ANA - In an unexpected turn of events for the original plaintiffs in the suit, a unanimous Santa Ana jury on Nov. 2 awar...
SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento lawyer reached a $51,000 settlement last month with the city of Benicia, which he accuses of filing ...
NEWPORT BEACH - Many powerful businessmen have found themselves inside William Lobel's fifth-floor, corner office in Newport B...
Firm Watch
Orrick Herrington Adds Attorney to Growing European Presence
By Staff Writer
LONDON - Bodo Schaar is the newest attorney to join Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's growing European presence. The firm a...
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...