SAN JOSE - South Bay attorneys are mourning the loss of former chief U.S. District Judge William Ingram, one of the first fede...
LOS ANGELES - Congratulations! Those three grueling days in February paid off. After passing the California Bar Exam you're ea...
State Bar & Bar Associations
One-Third of 4,000 February Test Takers Become Lawyers
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Jeff Anhalt spent the past weekend digesting the bad news that he didn't pass the California Bar Examination. Th...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider the constitutionality of a Virginia ban on cross burning in a c...
Law Practice
Attorney's Capital-Case Inexperience Vexes Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Attorney Mark Blankenship has never tried a murder case, let alone a death penalty case. But Blankenship refused t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sherman Wilke, the patriarch of one of Sacramento's oldest law firms, Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birn...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court has given some of the bite back to a longheld patent rule used by inventors to fend off...
Forum Column - By Mike Martin - The titanic wake of the sex abuse scandal that plagues the Roman Catholic Church may rock the ...
Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Jeremy J. Osher - Although law school gave me the analytical tools to cr...
Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Catherine W. Johnson - When I first started practicing law, I discovered...
Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Martha K. Gooding - As I approach 20 years in practice, younger lawyers ...
Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The transition from law student to lawyer is somewh...
Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Michael Greene and Jeffrey Benz - You've passed the Bar Exam and learne...
Civil Rights
Advocates of First Amendment Attack Court's Sealing Practices
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - A long-established practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of allowing attorneys to routine...
The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers inducted Elizabeth Huber, managing partner of the Los Angeles offi...
The University of San Francisco School of Law awarded Molly Lane, managing partner of the Palo Alto office of Brobeck Phleger ...
Of-counsel Irv Hepner switched gears as he represented Westfield America Inc. as its lead outside counsel instead of its gener...
The American College of Trial Lawyers inducted Richard Stratton as a fellow March 16 at its spring meeting in La Quinta. Strat...
Robert Cantore didn't think twice about including California's unfair competition law, Business and Professions Code Section 1...
Beefing up its trademark group, Los Angeles' Russ August & Kabat added two partners to its intellectual property practice....
General Motors Corp., Daewoo Motor Co. and the Daewoo Motor Creditors Committee have agreed to form GM Daewoo Auto and Technol...
In the wake of new workplace safety regulations that took effect two years ago, employers are facing tougher civil and crimina...
The antitrust and unfair competition law section of the State Bar of California awarded Don Hibner Jr. the 2002 Antitrust Lawy...
San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin has lured intellectual property partner Carole Barrett from Co...
Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. has acquired FM radio station KARA 105.7 from Empire Broadcasting Corp. in a cash deal worth $58 m...
Westfield America Inc. has acquired nine shopping centers in five different states from The Richard E. Jacobs Group Inc. The $...
The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County presented Carl McConnell, partner at San Jose's Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel with t...
The American College of Bankruptcy Professionals inducted Thomas Walpur to its ranks March 15. Walpur, a partner at Los Angele...
Boalt Hall launched the Gerald D. Marcus Fellowship Fund. This fund is in honor of Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy na...
Firm Watch
Nossaman Guthner: LEGISLATIVE PRO GIVES UP RETIREMENT TO PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Another Sacramento icon, state legislative counsel Bion Gregory joined the Sacramento office of Nossaman Guthner Knox & El...
