Alameda County Superior Court staffers got to check one another's work during an October celebration of National Customer Serv...
Litigation
RAND Institute for Civil Justice Elevates Executive to Director
By Staff Writer
The RAND Institute for Civil Justice promoted Robert Reville to director of the institute Oct. 22. The institute is an indepe...
Litigation
Bar Group Honors Federal Jurist With Judge of the Year Award
By Staff Writer
The Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County honored U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. with its annual Be...
Litigation
Legal Nurse Consulting Field Expands Rapidly Nationwide
By Christina Landers
Many litigators have hired doctors to testify in medical malpractice, product liability, workers' compensation and other lawsu...
In Closing Column - By Stephen Greene and Joshua Henderson - California recognizes an exception to the rule of employment at w...
The eighth floor of the Figueroa Plaza in downtown Los Angeles still has the fresh-paint and new-carpet smell to it. Cardboard...
Firm Watch
Manatt Jones Taps Ex-President of Costa Rica to Chair Advisory Group
By Staff Writer
The consulting branch of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips - Manatt Jones Global Strategies - appointed former Costa Rica Presiden...
With the 2002 World Series over and Angel fever still running rampant throughout Southern California, it's time for some North...
Litigation
Name Partner at Casey Gerry Receives Kroll Leadership Award
By Staff Writer
The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, honored Frederick Schenk with the David K. Kroll Leadershi...
Sources in the legal industry say that the layoffs at Washington, D.C.'s Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld were probably the ...
Firm Watch
Five Litigators, One Real Estate Lawyer Move Up at Farella Braun
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Farella Braun + Martel has elevated five litigators and one real estate attorney to the partnership, effectiv...
In response to client demand, Chicago's Hinshaw & Culbertson opened a Los Angeles office Oct. 1. The office was establishe...
Attorneys for auto repair shops say their clients are victims of a "legal shakedown" by a Beverly Hills law firm that sues the...
Los Angeles lawyer Molly Munger has received a Bringing Up Daughters Differently, or BUDDY, award from the National Organizati...
Firm Watch
O'Melveny Expands Presence in Japan by Starting Joint Enterprise
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers has expanded its Japanese presence by establishing a new joint enterprise with Watanab...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop Elevates Six California Associates to Partner
By Staff Writer
Starting Jan. 1, six California associates, as well as four others, at Pillsbury Winthrop will assume partner status, thanks ...
Respect the little guy. That's the message that attorneys for a dozen independent Shell gas station operators hope to send to ...
Brazilian company Prosisa Overseas has purchased MySmart.com Inc. of Los Angeles, a developer of technology that allows comput...
TRS Staffing Solutions of Aliso Viejo has sold its information-technology staffing division. TRS is a subsidiary of Fortune 50...
Palo Alto's Cooley Godward continues a trend of streamlining its operations, perhaps with an eye toward a merger with a partne...
Litigation
Law Center for Disability Rights Holds Gala Dinner Tuesday Night
By Staff Writer
The Western Law Center for Disability Rights will honor Anna Masters, a partner at Winston & Strawn; Jerry White of Landm...
Major setbacks with pretrial motions have prompted an appeal by a New York developer seeking billions of dollars from insurers...
Product Liability
Rollover Suit May Become First in State to Go to Jury
By Eron Yehuda
For the first time in California, a jury may decide an automobile rollover case in which a Ford Explorer and a Bridgestone/Fir...
Government
Nursing Home Tort Reform is Goal of Chains' Organization
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A group representing nursing home chains may embark on an $8 million, two-year effort to draft legislation and wi...
After wading through a host of legal challenges, bankrupt retailer Kmart Corp. has received approval to sell its Bluelight.com...
Actor and Republican activist Arnold Schwarzenegger will join Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn and other leaders on a business mis...
SAN FRANCISCO - Internal investigators for the state Department of Corrections spent years putting together criminal cases aga...
A $12.5 billion debt offering has closed, giving the state of California an infusion of money to pay its bills. The first phas...
Environmental
Counsel Must Advise Potential Buyers About New CERCLA Liability Defenses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Catherine W. Johnson - New CERCLA amendments provide potential purchasers with two new d...
LOS ANGELES - Eleanor Hunter and Michael Latin were 400 miles away when four former Symbionese Liberation Army soldiers pleade...