Encino's Michelman & Robinson continues its slow and steady growth since its launch four years ago. The latest lateral hir...
The national legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. will have a presence in cities across Canada once its merger with Catalyst...
Yet another Lyon & Lyon partner has found a new home. Intellectual property litigator Steven D. Hemminger, who started at ...
Firm Watch
Patent Lawyer Closes Doors and Takes Expertise to Procopio Cory
By Liz Valsamis
Harris F. Brotman has closed his one-man intellectual property shop and joined San Diego's Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Sa...
Paul Webber arrived in Los Angeles 15 years ago in a used Mercury Cougar that his law firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe...
Litigation
Superior Court Judge Retires as Jurist, Begins Work as Neutral
By Leslie Simmons
A longtime Los Angeles Superior Court judge retired in September. On Sept. 10, Robert Letteau left his 20-year job with the co...
Firm Watch
Cornerstone Research Selects General Counsel for L.A. Outpost
By Liz Valsamis
George G. Strong Jr. has become general counsel and managing director of Cornerstone Research Inc.'s new Los Angeles office. S...
Landlords beware. Marilyn Kalman may never have attended law school, but she is a dedicated and seemingly successful attorney ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Australian Bank Knows the Toll Way to Mexican Border
By Toni Vranjes
Australian bank Macquarie Infrastructure Group has acquired a majority stake in a company that is developing a San Diego toll ...
Adviser Column - By Michael Solender - With the Aas decision decreeing that consequential damages to other construction elemen...
A rare lawsuit borne of an embryo mix-up at a San Francisco fertility clinic is about to face its first court challenge, with ...
An ultra-hip West Hollywood club and an upscale, yet trendy, restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District were the meeting p...
Veteran Bay Area lawyers often express surprise when told that San Francisco's Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold is no long...
SANTA ANA - Services took place Friday and Saturday for Fullerton estate and tax attorney Allen Courtenay Clarke. Clarke, know...
SAN FRANCISCO - State prisoner James H. Edwards, who walked with the aid of a prosthetic leg, begged prison guards not to put ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Marks 75th Anniversary At Its Monterey Conference
By Christina Landers
For three quarters of a century, the State Bar has gathered its members at an annual meeting to attend seminars, see old frien...
SAN FRANCISCO - Is John Larson calling on an old friend to rescue Brobeck Phleger & Harrison? Brobeck is in parallel merge...
James E. Herman - lawyer for banks, president-elect of the State Bar, co-founder of the Santa Barbara opera society - hunkers ...
Focus Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson and Georgia M. Linkletter - California's Business and Professions Code is unforgiving to...
Forum Column - By Chiori Kaneko - Gov. Gray Davis signed a law last month that will have a terrible impact on victims of domes...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tired of watching Judge Judy weekday mornings? Tuesday, daytime TV viewers from Bakersfield to Chico can tune ...
LOS ANGELES - The battered 21-year-old wife did everything right: She had her husband arrested, fled with her 6-year-old son t...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Paxil Case Explores Drug's Darker Side
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Once we were the "Prozac Nation," lining up to be saved by a revolutionary group of antidepressants that was sai...
SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for Kevin Cooper, a death-row inmate recently pegged by DNA results in the brutal killings of a famil...
Corporate
Prevailing Cartwright Act Defendant May Not Recover Its Attorney Fees
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The allocation of attorney fees in antitrust cases is of considerable interest to the ...
Forum Column - By Robert Feinstein - They say there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and legislation....
LOS ANGELES - They're lawyers, they're in Century City, and their names sound exactly the same. A single "c" separates the two...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Richard F. Dole has died at his Telegraph Hill home, ending a 45-year real estate and finance career....
LOS ANGELES -The Los Angeles Police Department "has had a couple of tough years," the city's new top cop said Thursday as he p...
Construction
New Law Clarifies Construction-Defect Litigation for Builders and Homeowners
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Mark Milstein and Alexander S. Polsky - Construction-defect lawsuits have been among the hottest political i...