SAN DIEGO - The defense team for David A. Westerfield, charged with the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, ...
LOS ANGELES -A jury should decide whether the airbag on a Honda Civic was defective because it did not inflate during a collis...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt was removed from the bench by the state's judicial watchdog ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declared open season on cigarette makers Monday in a pair of rulings expected to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Although new rules went into effect July 1 expanding public access to electronic court records, actual access ...
SAN FRANCISCO - There are two types of large law firms, according to James Brosnahan. The first is designed solely to enrich s...
LOS ANGELES - After an appeal court rejected a claim that the district attorney's office has a conflict of interest in prosecu...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal bankruptcy judge Monday denied a request by the state Public Utilities Commission to order a new vo...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Has the University of California developed a sneaky way around Proposition 209, the 1996 Ca...
Focus Column - By Andrew B. Serwin ...
Litigation
'More Skin' Request of Dancer Isn't Entrapment, Court Rules
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Asking an exotic dancer at a strip club to show "more skin" is not entrapment, a state appellate court has ruled...
SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors will seek death for the man accused of killing Samantha Runnion, District Attorney Tony ...
Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - As most attorneys know, pro bono work such as donating your expertise to a nonprofit group o...
Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Trying to read a jury is a lot like trying to read a crystal ball: You think you see so...
For the second time in two years, an Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe litigation partner is headed for the bench. On July 25...
Firm Watch
Firm Celebrates Anniversary of Merger With a Pair of Parties
By Erik Cummins
When law firm partners describe successful mergers, they talk about things like synergy, cultural fits and cross-selling. So i...
Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld continues to build out its project and infrastructure development department...
San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop has parted ways with its Tysons Corner, Va., corporate practice. Two partners and two assoc...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Starr Focuses on Rehnquist's Court During Bar Speech
By Christina Landers
Former independent counsel and U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr addressed the Federal Bar Association's Orange County chap...
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has finally moved into the Water Garden office complex in Santa Monica. ...
Alternative fuel company IMPCO Technologies Inc. of Cerritos has spun off its subsidiary Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Wor...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Probe Is No Deal Breaker, Arbitrator Says
By Eron Yehuda
With the government in his corner, this should have been a straightforward case that Los Angeles lawyer Richard Marmaro couldn...
Seven months after McDermott, Will & Emery opened a Munich office, the firm has added an intellectual property practice to...
After September's terrorist attacks united Americans in newfound patriotism, the nation's capital seems the perfect setting to...
Firm Watch
U.S. Trustee's Office Signs on Senior Attorney in Los Angeles
By Staff Writer
Bruce Schildkraut joined the Office of the U.S. Trustee in Los Angeles as a senior attorney July 29. Schildkraut had been an a...
Creating an avalanche of work for Silicon Valley lawyers, Norton anti-virus maker Symantec Corp. of Cupertino has inked four d...
Walking into the Hollywood Star Lanes on a Friday night, you might expect to see some serious bowlers practicing for league pl...
Minda Schecter has joined the Los Angeles office of Washington, D.C.'s Hogan & Hartson as counsel to the antitrust, compet...
If you've ever pondered trading your billable-hours requirements for a job in legal marketing, there's something you should kn...
Instead of a marriage proposal, Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon got a Dear John letter from San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend...