LOS ANGELES - Venture Law Group has done it again. Early last summer, the Menlo Park-based firm became the first in Silicon Va...
SAN FRANCSICO - An incorrect word in a jury instruction, which gave it a contrary meaning, prompted a federal appeals court Th...
NEWPORT BEACH - At a recent memorial service at the Turnip Rose in Santa Ana, friends in the legal world and in auto racing sa...
By now, firms may have completed at least an initial draft of a financial plan for 2002. Perhaps the managing partner has stro...
During the Summer of 2000, the California Supreme Court issued two companion cases in which the court prohibited fluid recover...
There is a scene in the play "A Man For All Seasons" where playwright Robert Bolt has Sir Thomas More respond to his son-in-la...
Entertainment & Sports
O'Melveny Partner Will Become Counsel to SAG
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - What does it take to be the top lawyer for the Screen Actors Guild? Apparently, a State Department award for wor...
Labor/Employment
Choose Headhunter Carefully Before Handing Out Resume
By Contributing Writer
Because I am a former headhunter who recruits for a law firm in-house, lawyers often ask me about working with legal search fi...
LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles businessman Gil Michaels paid $2.54 million to one of the world's most powerful art dealers for...
SACRAMENTO - Pete Harned, a former star prosecutor and potential judicial nominee, was fired five years ago from the Sacrament...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday to completely invalidate Proposition 21, the 2000 juven...
SAN DIEGO - A second person seeking the district attorney's seat announced his candidacy Wednesday, flanked at the downtown Ha...
OAKLAND - Plaintiffs suing the manufacturer of defective hip replacements, having won two unlikely victories to secure an imme...
SAN FRANCISCO - City attorney candidate Jim Lazarus took his opponent to court Wednesday to stop him from mailing last-minute ...
LOS ANGELES - More than 50 prosecutors, police investigators, coroners and defense attorneys have been called to testify in a ...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has asked city leaders to extend a temporary ban on new billboards while he finds...
Government
Aquatics Center Treads Water in Alleged Swamp of Slander and Racism
By Garry Abrams
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has greenlighted a politically charged civil rights and defamation lawsuit which alleges th...
SAN DIEGO - The City Council decided Tuesday to extend the Boy Scouts' lease of city property for 25 years, finding after four...
SAN FRANCISCO - If there were a J. Anthony Kline bumper sticker, it might read: To concur is human. To dissent is divine. "I t...
LOS ANGELES - After 20 months, the online legal referral service Sharktank.com is all washed up. The Rockland, Mass.-based com...
LOS ANGELES - A gay computer help-desk worker has sued his former employer, Countrywide Credit Industries Inc., claiming his f...
LOS ANGELES - The legal community may learn soon whether San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison will have to resort to...
This is the time of year when new associates finally are understanding what it means to join The Firm. Fresh out of law school...
In one sense, it is unfair to blame President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft for their incompetent blundering in tryi...
What should a deep-pocketed American corporation do when faced with class actions of little merit but much potential to sap it...
"I see that you are a judge," my new physician said as he opened the file his nurse had created for my first annual physical. ...
Since the California Supreme Court revitalized the "economic loss" rule in its recent ruling in Aas v. Superior Court , 24 ...
Arbitration offers many advantages over litigation, including speed and cost-savings. But these advantages only flow to those ...
Defense attorney Timothy Lambirth loves a good mystery, especially lawsuits that involve fraud and forgery. ...