Law Practice
Attorney Finds His Passion, Fulfills His Dreams on Stage
By Stefanie Knapp
Al D'Andrea directs one of his actresses to open up to the audience. She keeps turning upstage at a crucial moment in the play...
Earlier this year, Loudcloud Inc. agreed to acquire Santa Monica's Frontera Corp. But Loudcloud has been trying to renegotiate...
Litigation
Learn Procedural Rules for Chosen Arbitration Process
By Contributing Writer
Column by C. David Serena - Litigators may encounter three basic statutory schemes regulating arbitration proceedings in Calif...
Sane Jose's Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel has added a trio of attorneys to its partnership. At the firm's quarterly board of...
The New York office of Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers continues to expand. Following the announcement that it intends to a...
Firm Watch
Kelley Drye Elects Two Partners in Southern California Office
By Staff Writer
Attorneys Michelle M. La Mar and Robert C. Shenfeld of the Los Angeles office of Kelley, Drye & Warren recently became par...
Column by Bobbie McMorrow and Ralph Savarese - "Why would you open in Kirkland, Washington, or Austin, Texas?" we asked a mana...
For frequent Internet users, pop-up advertisements likely draw a reflex response: Click to close, and then go back to what you...
Everyone who's anyone in the Southern California legal community knows the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' annu...
Front Page
Five Lawyers From Luce Forward Work to Reorganize Burger Kings
By Staff Writer
Five lawyers from Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps helped seven entities that owned and operated 130 Burger King franchis...
After two earlier attempts to secure a buyer in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, Software Logistics was finally purchased by CM...
LOS ANGELES -For the first time in a decade, the National Black Prosecutors Association will hold it's annual meeting in Los A...
LOS ANGELES - Case law about who can be held liable for conspiracy to breach fiduciary duty is not as clear as it could be, a ...
Front Page
The PUC Asks Judge Montali to Halt Voting by PG&E's Creditors Because Of What It Calls The Utility's 'Road Show'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been waging an unusually aggressive campaign to defeat the state'...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors cannot use a peremptory challenge to shop for a new, more sympathetic judge when they refile a case ...
Led by Andrew Bogen, a partner at Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Northrop Grumman appears it will finally succeed i...
LOS ANGELES - A federal lawmaker, angered by problems in Los Angeles County's child protective system, announced Friday that s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the poor economy and a declining stock market, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker laid off four associ...
SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, will...
Government
Los Altos Law On Solicitation For Day Work Is Overturned
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO -The sidewalks of Los Altos are once again open for business, after a federal judge ordered the city to stop enf...
LOS ANGELES - Since California abolished public executions in 1858, capital punishment gradually has receded from public view,...
SAN DIEGO - President Bush has nominated a Superior Court judge who is also a veteran federal prosecutor to become the U.S. at...
International
9th Circuit Allows Liberal Discovery In U.S. for Use in Proceedings Abroad
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Edward A. Klein - In deciding the most recent skirmish between microprocessor giants Advanced Micro Devices ...
There is nothing on one plain white wall of Ken Crowder's office in a glass-enclosed Century City high-rise except a photo. Fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been waging an unusually aggressive campaign to defeat the state's...
Labor/Employment
Former Braceros Ask Judge for Justice and Lost Wages
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge appears sympathetic to claims by thousands of Mexican migrant workers that they were cheated o...
Law Practice
SLAPP Ruling Curtails Malicious Prosecution
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could curtail malicious prosecution suits drastically, the state's high court has held that a t...
Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - If there were a contest that awarded prizes in the category of civil justice legislation ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling that the U.S. government cannot indefinitely detain people who were never formall...
Entertainment & Sports
Post-Mortem Publicity Cases Raise Choice-of-Law Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Anthony T. Falzone - Post-mortem publicity rights are strange creatures compared to other species of intelle...