Litigation
Bench Officer Gains New Post as Presiding Judge for Los Angeles
By Leslie Simmons
On Sept. 11, Assistant Presiding Judge Robert Dukes became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court. and Nor...
Under a multifaceted financing agreement, BluePoint Energy Products Inc. has received a $500,000 loan and could get an additio...
Michael Gosk, formerly a corporate tax partner at accounting and consulting firm KPMG, has brought his international and offsh...
Firm Watch
'Lawyer's Lawyer' Berne Rolston Moves His Offices to Beverly Hills
By Staff Writer
Berne Rolston, the self-proclaimed lawyer's lawyer, has moved his shop from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills. Rolston, whose new ...
After only 18 months with New Jersey's Lowenstein Sandler, Miriam Cohen and three partners have taken their corporate finance ...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has lured away the co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's business crimes and investigations ...
Firm Watch
Piper Rudnick Forms Strategic Alliance With The Cohen Group
By Staff Writer
Piper Rudnick has formed a strategic alliance with consulting firm The Cohen Group to combine its legal services with the busi...
Calpine Corp. has obtained $106 million to help finance the construction of a power plant near Denver, Colo. Credit Lyonnaise ...
In Closing Column - By Dennis L. Sharp and John M. Seitman - While there are many advantages to contractual arbitration, perh...
Firm Watch
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Adds Partner to Handle International Tax
By Staff Writer
In the nation's capitol, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw added another international tax partner to its ranks Sept. 4. Hal Hicks,...
A Los Angeles law firm is representing Gadzoox Networks Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Northern California. ...
Venture capital money continues to flow into Orange County medical device manufacturer MicroVention Inc. The Aliso Viejo-based...
In the six years since the State Bar of California first developed a committee on alternative dispute resolution, continuing e...
After three years of litigation, an international price-fixing conspiracy class action brought by livestock producers and feed...
Litigation
Superior Court Judge Draper Retires After Serving 16 Years
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge William B. Draper Jr. has retired after more than 16 years as a trial judge. His final assign...
Litigation
Appligent Software Lets Firms Control Classified Information
By Stefanie Knapp
Appligent Inc. has released new software that allows law firms to redact sensitive information from portable document format, ...
SANTA BARBARA - You could hardly get horsier than Hope Ranch. In the exclusive Santa Barbara-area community, riders gallop dow...
SAN FRANCISCO - Upon returning to the adult criminal courts last month after spending four years defending juvenile cases, Jea...
Criminal
Investigation Targets Figure at Heart of Hollywood and Politics
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Cody Cluff, the insider's insider who has built a career at that point where the glittery worlds of Hollywood an...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Compliance With State Won't Shield Local Agency From Flood Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Todd W. Blischke - In Arreola v. Monterey County, 99 Cal.App.4th 722 (2002), the 6th District Court o...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald George and Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown are at it again. Three weeks ...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The movement to secure reparations for African-Americans who are the descendants of slave...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has tentatively dismissed a class action brought by six San Diego teen-agers who alleged that big cigarett...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles lawyer is expected to be arraigned today on an embezzlement charge for allegedly stealing a dying ...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time a woman has been named to head the Judicial Conference Executive Committee, which helps for...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has rejected convicted murderer David A. Westerfield's motion to bar the death penalty, saying that the st...
Forum Column - By R. William Ide III - In the past year, the American people have been shaken by numerous corporate scandals, ...
Focus Column - By Elizabeth E. Launer - The concept of joint inventorship, where two or more people make a single patentable ...
Judges and Judiciary
Attorney Files Countersuit Against Judge After Divorce
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A family law attorney has sued a San Francisco judge, saying he failed to pay for work on his divorce case. Su...
CARLSBAD - Sonja and Abel Cassel, doing business as What A Girl Wants (a clothing boutique), leased 1,036 square feet of reta...