20 Under 40 - Vicki Veenker - Vicki Veenker, 39, isn't sure whether she's the only female partner given the opportunity to sta...
Skechers USA Inc. closed its senior subordinated note offering worth $90 million. The private offering closed April 5. The pur...
Firm Watch
Allen Matkins: BROBECK TECH PARTNER WILL LEAD O.C. CORPORATE GROUP
By Staff Writer
Greg T. Williams is bringing his high-tech expertise to the Irvine office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory. The firm...
With a boom in all its practice areas, Los Angeles-based Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard hired two additional partners a...
Forum Column - Equally Speaking - By Gloria Allred and Ruth Graf-Urasaki - Premarital and post-marital agreements are a fact o...
Forum Column - By Ryan D. McCortney - After reading articles on the Supreme Court's recent decision in Hoffman Plastic Comp...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Daubert' Test Does Not Apply to Experts in State Court
By Columnist
Tort Law - Column by Raphael Metzger and Greg Coolidge - California courts do not require expert medical opinions to pass any ...
SAN BERNARDINO - The crowded, crumbling San Bernardino courthouse has moved one step closer to getting much-needed repairs and...
Forum Column - By Michael J. Ortiz - Attorney General John Ashcroft may not have been behind the order to cover the bare-breas...
Column by Michael Solender - Every year, thousands of new homes are built in California, many of which are constructed imprope...
At different times over more than a decade, several female employees of Ralphs Grocery Store Co. suffered verbal and mental ab...
Column by Alex Polsky - Hang onto your hats! Construction defect litigation is about to go from a one- to a two- to a three-st...
Not the type to choose the easy route in life, attorney Philip E. Kay picked a tougher-than-usual job to pay his way through l...
An actor's greatest fear is losing his spell over an audience. The way to keep the crowd's attention is to show sincerity and ...
Labor/Employment
Students Should Take Advantage Of Chance to Prove Themselves
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Summer is right around the corner. For many, the arrival of summer brings days at the...
Tutor-Saliba Heads Down Wrong Track Construction joint venture Tutor-Saliba-Perini , which was hired by the Los Angeles County...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles should prosecute owners, managers and tenants of high-rises who don't conduct fire drill...
Large Firms
McKenna & Cuneo Has Merger Talks With Atlanta-Based Firm
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo is in merger talks with Atlanta-based Long, Aldridge & Norman. Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Stuart R. Pollak took what was - for him - a little light reading on a recent vacation jaunt...
Forum Column - By Gilbert Geis and Joseph F. C. DiMento - To many Americans, the grand jury criminal indictment of Arthur Ande...
Forum Column - By Karl Manheim - Imagine the following scenario: Salvador Dolly has a rare and valuable genetic trait. Somethi...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court cleared the way for the Los Angeles Times and other media to publish photographs of a San Ber...
LOS ANGELES - Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney is establishing a Bay Area presence with the acquisition of Flehr Hohbach...
SAN JOSE - A federal jury Thursday convicted Michael Rostoker, a patent lawyer and former business executive, of illegally tra...
LOS ANGELES -If the public is to have confidence in the legal system, judges need to be free from political pressure, says Los...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nike's aggressive public defense of its treatment of Asian workers is not protected free speech, but is regula...
LOS ANGELES - As part of an expanding investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office into the current poli...
Constitutional Law
Categorical Rule Rejected For Temporary Moratoria Takings
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Chris Scheuring - The temporary development moratorium is a widely used tool in land use planning that prese...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors have asked a judge to remove the attorney representing Robert Blake's bodyguard-co-defendant, claimi...
LOS ANGELES - Richard M. Hall was just coming into his own in the 1930s when his grandmother gave him a choice: Take an offer ...