SAN FRANCISCO - Walk into the red brick storefront office of Clarence & Snell on the corner of Ellis and Van Ness and it's...
Law Practice
Mayor Puts Politically Savvy on Board of Police Commissioners
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - In naming four politically savvy and ethnically varied attorneys to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioner...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court, excoriating two Idaho state prosecutors, upheld sanctions Tuesday against the lawyers...
The proper functioning of our republican form of democratic government requires a clear rule of law that federal law enforceme...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District will fight an arbitrator's decision to award more than $16 million to th...
Firm lawyers must be on their best behavior while the summer associates are on board. ...
Cross-selling can expand your practice, offer more services to your clients and increase firm revenues. ...
The deportation of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ...
RIVERSIDE - An appellate panel has affirmed the prison sentence of the former owner of a conservatorship company who helped st...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge's decision to halt development of three dozen offshore oil and gas leases will, for the first ...
SAN DIEGO - A group of lawyers whose case prompted the city to shut off its 19 traffic-intersection cameras last month continu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thirteen months after its firm was acquired as the emerging-companies practice of Thelen Reid & Priest, th...
LOS ANGELES - Gregory Vega, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, will join San Diego's Seltzer Caplan...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediator Can't Report Disruption to Judge
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A mediator cannot divulge to a judge anything that goes on in negotiations, even when participants try to dera...
From staff reports Nicolas De Lancie has joined Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP in an of counsel capacity to the ba...
SACRAMENTO - Public interest lawyers, including district attorneys and public defenders, could get state help to repay their l...
Personal Injury & Torts
Amputee's Suit Alleges Neglect By Utility Firm
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Allen Kimball always looked for power lines before perusing a tree for its fruits. And the veteran avocado picke...
LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin's last act was one of courage, sparing his family the pain of watching him deteriorate as had his fa...
Litigation
Rest-in-Peace Plan Proves Vain Dream for Mishandled Corpse, Family
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - In many things, two out of three isn't bad. But when it comes to burying someone, it's a lousy percentage. That ...
The expert's report is not binding on the court but is usually powerful evidence bearing on the best interest of the children.
Lawyers at Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie spared no expense in a recent celebration welcoming back name partner Richard R...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: OREGON MOTOR-HOME RIVALS INK MERGER FOR $36 MILLION
By Victoria Newman
Monaco Coach Corp. has agreed to buy SMC Corp. The cash- and assumption-of-debt deal between the Oregon motor-coach manufactur...
Firm Watch
Shaw Pittman: MERGER EXTENDS RANGE OF PRACTICE COAST TO COAST
By Karen Coleman
On July 1, Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman increased the number of attorneys in its Century City outpost by two-thirds by ...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin: PRODIGAL LAWYER RESUMES CORPORATE PRACTICE IN L.A.
By Karen Coleman
Larry Braun is settling back into his old corporate-chair spot at Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton after a t...
Firm Watch
Riordan & McKinzie: IP PRACTICE GAINS BOOST FROM ARTER LATERAL HIRE
By Karen Coleman
David Laufer, an intellectual-property and product-distribution law specialist, hopped off the teetering Los Angeles office of...
The California Bankruptcy Forum has named David Gould, a corporate partner in the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & E...
The California chapter of the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation has appointed George Means, a real estate partner at Sidle...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley has presented nearly $17,000 in environmental scholarships to 18 students from fi...
Gov. Gray Davis has nominated George Caplan, co-managing partner of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hayes & Handler's Los Angeles off...