LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has publicly reprimanded the chief assistant city attorney in charge of the Rampart corruption p...
Judges and Judiciary
Igniting Your Child's Hand Is Felony Abuse in Any Society
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Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - Moral relativism teaches that absolute right and wrong do not exist, while multiculturali...
Forum Column - By Karen Nobumoto - First-year board member Matthew E. Cavanaugh's column, "Dumping Dues Dollars Into The Toile...
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles County is not liable for failing to take steps to prevent a fatal shooting inside the central civi...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Monday allowed actor Robert Blake to keep his private investigator, a former ...
Bankruptcy
Enron Scandal Needs a Stoolie Lawyer With a Flair for Back Stabbing
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The lawyers involved in the now-infamous memos about Enron's schemes to profit from California's ener...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the so-called Megan's laws adopted by all 50 states requir...
LOS ANGELES - In an unprecedented hearing, five Los Angeles Superior Court judges and more than 100 lawyers met Monday morning...
LOS ANGELES - A culture of fear has spread throughout San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison following management's us...
Intellectual Property
Aggregators May Be Liable for Web Site Contents
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Since Napster came into being, it seems Hollywood has churned out more high-profile copyright suits than block...
Administrative/Regulatory
Bias Standards For Hearing Officers Clarified by Decision
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Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - On May 6, the California Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision clarifying the standar...
LOS ANGELES - Napster Inc. general counsel Jonathan Schwartz and a slew of other executives have returned to the company now t...
LOS ANGELES - Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Rev. Michael Stephen Baker engaged in a criminal c...
Dicta Column - By Edwin V. Woodsome Jr. and David G. Meyer - Among lawyers and judges, one can find different views about the ...
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Most lawyers seem to have the same goal in life - to not be lawyers. This is a curious thing, e...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a federal appellate opinion that allowed a mixed-race couple to s...
Firm Watch
Bonne Bridges: TRIAL ATTORNEY IS CHOSEN TO LEAD ELDER LAW GROUP
By Staff Writer
Bonne Bridges Mueller O'Keefe & Nichols has selected Kippy Wroten to lead the elder law group, a once obscure area of law ...
Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Simplex Solutions Inc. The stock deal, announced April 24, is worth $300 mil...
DuPont peddles its legal model as "a radical redefining of the entire practice of corporate law," but it was conceived as a wa...
Firm Watch
Weston Benshoof: VENTURA OUTPOST MORE THAN DOUBLES ITS SPACE
By Staff Writer
Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish has more than doubled its office space in Ventura County to accommodate a t...
Firm Watch
Rutan & Tucker: EMPLOYMENT, BANKRUPTCY SPECIALISTS MOVE PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker has added two new lawyers from the neighboring city of Irvine. Earlier this month, Rutan recru...
First Community Bancorp has agreed to acquire First National Bank of San Diego for $142 million. The deal was announced April ...
After seven years at Higgs Fletcher & Mack , Charles Berwanger has joined Gordon & Rees as a San Diego partner. Berwan...
Firm Watch
Morgan Lewis: PILLSBURY PARTNER BRINGS EXPERTISE TO LABOR GROUP
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Wanting to expand her employment and law practice, labor litigator Susan Fillichio has left Pillsbury Winthrop for Morgan Lewi...
Firm Watch
McKenna & Cuneo: FIRM TALKS MERGER WITH ATLANTA'S LONG ALDRIDGE
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Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo might be gaining a 150-lawyer Atlanta outpost in the future. The firm is in merger ...
Firm Watch
Foley & Lardner: PUBLIC AGENCY ATTORNEY TAKES HELM IN SAN DIEGO
By Staff Writer
Foley & Lardner has named public agency lawyer Greg Moser to manage the firm's two San Diego offices. Moser, who was appoi...
Firm Watch
Wilson Sonsini: BIOTECH CLIENT ENTICES COVETED PATENT EXPERT
By Staff Writer
Patent partner David Weitz has left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to join a client, biotechnology company Syrrex Inc. o...
Firm Watch
Manatt Phelps: ANTITRUST GURU IS LURED AWAY FROM ERVIN COHEN
By Staff Writer
Antitrust veteran Eliot Disner has left Beverly Hills' Ervin Cohen & Jessup to head the advocacy and litigation division a...
JMI Realty and Omni Hotels Corp. have secured financing to build the Omni San Diego Hotel, which will be adjacent to a new bal...
When attorney Mark Rochefort first heard the principles of the DuPont Legal Model, he thought the corporation had devised an ...