Firm Watch
Santa Barbara's Hager & Dowling Elevates Associate Civil Litigator
By Staff Writer
SANTA BARBARA - Santa Barbara's Hager & Dowling, a civil litigation firm, has promoted associate Lisa Franklin to partner ...
LOS ANGELES - Even a century ago, Los Angeles had its celebrity lawyers. Back then, Earl Rogers was known as a virtually unbea...
LOS ANGELES - Nearly five months after agreeing to acquire TRW Inc., defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The partnership at Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher will lift two California lawyers and six others to...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appointed for a second time former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Madge Watai as ...
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman has lost one of the founding partners of its Los Angeles office to O'Melveny...
LAS VEGAS - Break out your golf clubs, your appetite and your wallet. A new glitzy casino is opening on the Las Vegas Strip. T...
Firm Watch
Piper Rudnick Brings in Former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Illinois
By Staff Writer
The trend of U.S. attorneys heading to litigation practices at large firms has caught up with Piper Rudnick. The Washington, ...
LOS ANGELES - A man who won a Northridge club soccer game but was assaulted afterward by members of the losing team can sue th...
LOS ANGELES - William S. Hart High School's mock trial team took top honors this week in the senior-high division of the Const...
Law Office Automation
Company Creates New Litigation Resources Provider
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES - New York-based Bowne & Co.'s business solutions division has acquired DecisionQuest of Torrance for $31 mill...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Activist Wins Seat on Board of Governors
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A committed bar activist boasting strong support from Bay Area lawyers' groups has defeated a prominent State Ba...
SAN FRANCISCO - The most liberal judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals used a challenge to California's ban on assau...
SAN JOSE - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative will not be getting their pot back. In a ruling filed ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it is not unconstitutional to punish people for filing false...
Law Practice
'Tis the Season to Stay Put, Improve Your Workplace Conditions
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Reviews, bonuses, resolutions - yes, the holiday season is quickly approaching. It's ...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Jane S. Preece - The determination of which family law cases should be dismissed for exceeding ...
LOS ANGELES - Upholding an immigration court's decision, a federal appellate panel Thursday denied a Chinese couple's asylum r...
Forum Column - By Daniel L. Siegel - An effort to have the U.S. Supreme Court extend the Fifth Amendment's Just Compensation C...
LOS ANGELES - Laurence Pretty, a nationally prominent intellectual property attorney, has left Christie, Parker & Hale a l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Catch a baseball falling into McCovey Cove, a salmon flung from a Seattle fish market or an orchid floating d...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a cool reception to the civil rights damages suit filed by an Oxnard farmwork...
SACRAMENTO - In a victory for homeowners, the state Supreme Court on Wednesday extended California's doctrine of strict produ...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California has filed charges to stop former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy ...
Litigation
They Did Nothing, Honest, and They're Really, Really Sorry, for Sure
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - What do actress Winona Ryder, Princess Haifa bint Faisal of Saudi Arabia and the El Paso Corp. have i...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday appeared ready to side with the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese, whic...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal appeals panel that declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional ruled Wednesday that the ma...
LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities Wednesday charged a Koreatown resident with allegedly harboring six Korean women and forcing...
LOS ANGELES - A professional horseplayer Wednesday filed a class action against the computerized wagering company behind a rig...
SAN FRANCISCO - The whole thing started in a Noe Valley cul-de-sac. A homeowner there wanted to build a new deck. But some nei...