Negotiating with a privately held Canadian company can be tricky, Michael Dorf recently discovered. A corporate and securities...
SAN FRANCISCO - Some illustrations of escalating judicial campaign costs and contributions: ...
The Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center presented Drucilla Ramey, outgoing executive director and general counsel of the B...
Firm Watch
Brown Raysman: COMPANY EXECUTIVE MOVES BACK TO LOS ANGELES POST
By Karen Coleman
John Petrovich, a former partner in the Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, is working his way...
SAN FRANCISCO - Faced with the need to mount million-dollar election campaigns, more judges are seeking help from those with a...
LOS ANGELES - In what is believed to be the first writ granted in connection with a Proposition 36 case, the 2nd District Cour...
Do screaming partners, escalating billable hours and demanding corporate clients have you eyeing the door, contemplating a bol...
LOS ANGELES - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas had a conflict in calling for a grand jury probe into the 1988 s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Charles "Ed" Sherman wrote a best-seller, "How to Do Your Own Divorce in California," and 20 years la...
LOS ANGELES - Seven elderly and disabled tenants facing eviction from their Venice apartment complex have sued their landlord ...
LOS ANGELES - The fate of a 4-year-old Thai boy, stranded in Los Angeles after being caught in a slave-trafficking ring, may b...
SAN FRANCISCO - A fractious 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered two majority decisions, one ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Venturing into the Silicon Valley, Attorney General John Ashcroft has unveiled a plan to increase the weight o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nolo's flying solo. And hostile lawyers are still trying to shoot it down. The Berkeley self-help law book pub...
Alexis de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," observed in the 1800s that you could judge a country by the way it tr...
'Legally Blonde' captures the essence of at least one Harvard Law School graduate's experience. ...
To state the obvious, the U.S. Supreme Court must do more than simply resolve the controversies in the cases before it; the co...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie, which has suffered a series of defections since the firm's failed merger ta...
SANTA ANA - Low-income Californians who represent themselves in civil court will have more computers to use at legal-aid cente...
Should busy lawyers put their financial investments on autopilot? ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Pat Bradford, a veteran Los Angeles Superior Court court reporter. Bradfor...
America is czar-struck. I didn't realize how bad the problem had become until I read that Philadelphia had appointed - get thi...
The court noted that Napa, like many other localities in California, has a shortage of affordable housing. ...
RIVERSIDE - A Victorville court reporter has filed a federal lawsuit against San Bernardino County, contending her supervisors...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald E. Cappai. Cappai, known for his affa...
LOS ANGELES - The judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys in the bombing-conspiracy case against accused '70s radical-turned-...
SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Shannon, an attorney who in 1996 ran as a Republican against incumbent Democratic Sen. Byron Sher to r...
SANTA ANA - Although John Hueston heads the U.S. attorney's office in Orange County, law wasn't the first thing on his mind 15...
Judges and Judiciary
Tale-Telling L.A. Judge Faces a Hostile Commission
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg's days on the bench appeared to be numbered Thursday as me...
Criminal
Defense Attorney's Unexpected Visit to Juror Delays Sentencing
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge postponed a cop-killer's sentencing Thursday because of the defense attorney'...