Firm Watch
Mitchell Silberberg: TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT RECRUITS NEW IN PARTNER
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp has recruited partner Evan M. Kent for its intellectual property and technology p...
Stuart Lipton is conspicuously out of the limelight, and he likes it that way. Never one to seek publicity, the managing part...
No law firms are involved yet in the battle royale over the Hollywood sign between the proposed city of Hollywood and Los Ange...
Schering AG Germany has agreed to acquire the LEUKINE business from Immunex Corp., which is merging with Amgen Inc. The deal, ...
Since California Law Business published its last partnership roster in late January, the state's law firms have promoted 75 mo...
SAN FRANCISCO - When he tightened the tie around his neck and choked the blood flow to his brain, Gerald Alan Padfield sought ...
OAKLAND - Earth First leaders were violent hypocrites who used pacifism as a cover tactic, City of Oakland defense lawyer Mari...
Labor/Employment
Company Considering Mass Layoffs, Closings, Must Comply With WARN
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Beth A. Schroeder and Barry M. Appell - Although some businesses and industries have begun to report improve...
VENTURA - You might think being photographed in a harness and spanked with a riding crop would be all in a day's work at an ad...
LOS ANGELES - Partner Grant Finlayson has left San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to launch a marketing and co...
Litigation
Golf Pro Faces Rough Course In His Bid to Win Concession
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Having been the golf pro at Rancho Park Golf Course for more than 30 years, Ronald Weiner can recall a time of s...
SAN FRANCISCO - David Cassuto , associated with San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass , is on a quest to save the We...
Litigation
Jurist Declares Mistrial, Wipes Out Surfers' Suit Against Abercrombie & Fitch
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The highly anticipated court battle of seven legendary surfers against Abercrombie & Fitch over use of their...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dog mauling trial defense attorney Nedra Ruiz has accepted a judge's fine for violating a gag order during the...
DENVER - On July 8, 1998, Jefferson County lawyer Mark Pautler found himself at the scene of a gruesome crime. Three women had...
SAN FRANCISCO - Few of the tech-savvy music consumers who have traded their CD players for MP3 players will have heard of Andr...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terrence Hallinan said Friday he will ask deputy prosecutor Floyd Andrews to resign if Andre...
Focus Column - By Johm T. McNelis - A Supreme Court decision that should be announced in the next six weeks will affect the va...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline A. Connor erred when she overturned a jury's verdict convicting thre...
Judges and Judiciary
Watchdog Panel Censures, Bars Riverside Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly censured and barred retired Riverside County Judge William H. Sull...
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite a conviction for conspiracy to assault prison inmates last week, two former Pelican Bay State Prison g...
Forum Column - By Sue Blake - Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening's moratorium on the death penalty is a gross miscarriage of just...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for dental malpractice litigator Gerald A. Sheppard will take place Tuesday in Los Angeles. S...
LOS ANGELES - Movie producer Steve Bing has filed a $5 billion invasion of privacy lawsuit against MGM mogul Kirk Kerkorian. I...
Column by Gregory E. Stone - Congratulations on graduating from law school, passing the bar and getting your license to practi...
Column by Lynn J. Harris - When I graduated law school less than two years ago, I knew then that I just wanted to write and do...
Former business owner Joan Hangarter ran a successful chiropractic practice in Albany for nearly 20 years, but when an injury ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has recruited Thomas C. Janson, an investment banker...
If he had stuck with his high-school career plans, San Francisco attorney Ray Bourhis might be pumping gas and looking under t...
OAKLAND - The municipal entities in Oakland and Alameda County's $1.1 billion legal battle with the Oakland Raiders have filed...