SACRAMENTO - A legal action by the state's top lawmakers against federal energy regulators was quickly rejected Tuesday by a p...
LOS ANGELES - Maria E. Stratton will serve a third four-year term as the federal public defender for the Central District of C...
SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous jury in Stockton has hit the state with a $5.5 million verdict, saying the Department of Motor Veh...
SANTA ANA - A former Mission Viejo High School student may proceed with a lawsuit challenging a ban on on-campus religious clu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Liebert Cassidy Whitmore took the first step Tuesday in building its Northern California school-law practice: ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Sara Jane Olson filed a motion Tuesday asking a Superior Court judge to dismiss misdemeanor charge...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Justice Department attorney, claiming U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali was misled by Pacific Gas and Ele...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has ordered the county to develop a system to preserve potential evidence in law-enforce...
SAN FRANCISCO - Publishing giant Random House Inc. has settled a defamation claim filed by an assistant to the controversial B...
Law Practice
February Pass Rate Is State's Lowest In More Than a Decade
By Staff Writers
LOS ANGELES - In the state's lowest bar-passage rate in 11 years, 37.2 percent of those who took the bar exam in February pass...
LOS ANGELES - Every Tuesday for the past 18 months, Sister Sharlet Wagner has been making the 160-mile round trip from Los Ang...
WASHINGTON - Dealing a blow to plaintiffs who sue under a vast array of federal civil rights and environmental laws, the Supre...
Appellate Practice
Golfer Hits Hole in One At U.S. Supreme Court
By Contributing Writer
WASHINGTON - Golfer Casey Martin will get another shot at the greens following Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering ...
LOS ANGELES - In a move that won bipartisan praise, a key Republican and California's two Democratic senators chose 24 lawyers...
Among actions announced Tuesday by the justices were:
President George W. Bush plans to nominate Matt Fong as undersecretary of the Army, the White House has announced. Fong, who s...
Transactions
Cooley Godward: Italian Investor Delivers Dessert to Ferrari Foods
By Victoria Newman
San Leandro-based A.G. Ferrari Foods has landed $12.3 million in venture backing. Opera Investment Co. of Milan, Italy, has co...
Stephen Kaufman, name partner of Los Angeles' Smith Kaufman and head of its political practice group, has become chief consult...
The effects of the dot-com bust can be seen in law firms, where lawyers who last year regularly billed 200 hours per week are ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
San Diego Group Honors Lawyer's Pro Bono Work
By Staff Writer
Also at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, partner Robert S. Gerber has received the Co-President Award from the Tom Homan...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Sacramento Bar Chooses Litigator as Humanitarian
By Staff Writer
Emily E. Vasquez of Sacramento's Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard has received the Humanitarian of the Year award from...
Transactions
Manatt Phelps: Minority-Controlled Banks Combine With a Stock Swap
By Victoria Newman
Founders National Bank, Los Angeles' only commercial bank owned by African-Americans, has completed its merger with Boston Ban...
Transactions
Manatt Phelps: Health-Law Practitioner Leaves Medical Company
By Staff Writer
Medical-business lawyer Frank LaPallo rejoined the Los Angeles-based Manatt Phelps & Phillips May 14 after a five-year res...
In Los Angeles, 13 Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan lawyers volunteered to represent parents adopting children through the...
Firm Watch
Howard Rice: Two Tax Lawyers Bring Business Planning Skills
By Karen Coleman
Two lawyers from two different firms joined San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin on May 14. The pai...
Transactions
Preston Gates: Riordan Attorney Joins Corporate Department
By Staff Writer
While many a Riordan & McKinzie lawyer has been spooked into leaving by the firm's merger talks, former Riordan partner Ba...
As suggested in the title of his article, "Habitat Hindrance: Mushrooming Federal Interference Dooms Development in State," (F...
Transactions
Proskauer Rose: Litigators Leave Manatt to Work With Their Guru
By Staff Writer
A pair of litigation partners from the Los Angeles home office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips joined the local outpost of New...
Transactions
Gray Cary: Financing Round Infuses $26 Million Into MaXXan
By Victoria Newman
MaXXan Systems Inc. has received $26 million in first-round, venture financing. Venrock Associates and U.S. Venture Partners w...
Solo and Small Firms
Consumer Attorneys Elect Berding Partners to Board
By Staff Writer
Partners Michael Hughes and Daniel Rottinghaus of construction litigation boutique Berding & Weil have been elected to the...