LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court decision handed down this week could mean an end to a prosecutorial tactic of charging d...
LOS ANGELES - The state's lotto machines are more reliable than many of its voting machines, according to a lawsuit challengin...
SACRAMENTO - In a stinging defeat for five law firms, a Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that the firms are not ...
Judges and Judiciary
Committee Picks Architect To Build New Courthouse
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A Chicago architect won a contest to design a $300-million federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, which is ...
9th Circuit holds that hospitals' duties under "patient dumping" laws are triggered when the ambulance contacts a hospital.
WASHINGTON - California may withhold payment to subcontractors on state projects who fail to pay employees the state's prevail...
April is upon us once more, bringing all the portents of spring. For some, New Year's is the appropriate time for reflection, ...
As we go farther beyond our Judeo-Christian roots to a secular and secularized view of morality, we seem to be losing our grip...
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.'s McKenna & Cuneo has added seven attorneys to its Los Angeles office and six attorneys to ...
There are moments in our lives that are defining moments. There are actions that we take in response that will significantly d...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice has taken steps to ensure that the city of Los Angeles will benefit from a $134 m...
SAN FRANCISCO - By fighting ethics charges with a free-speech lawsuit, the embattled former Judge Patricia Gray is gambling th...
LANCASTER - To hear their attorneys tell it, three grandmothers who sold iodine crystals out of a High Desert feed store have ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury on Monday indicted the partner heading the patent department for Oakland's Crosby Heafey ...
Criminal
Per Ashcroft, Everything Remains to Be Seen for McVeigh's Execution
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - My grandfather once told me he had seen a man hanged. "He kicked," my grandfather said. He meant that the public...
Criminal
Justices Refuse to Consider Case On Protecting Secret Witnesses
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to let three county jail inmates testify anonymously in a Los Angeles g...
SAN FRANCISCO - Over the objections of virtually every public-interest group in the city, the San Francisco Board of Superviso...
Real Estate/Development
Title Co. Can't Keep Interest From Escrow, Judge Rules
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could change the way banks and title companies handle escrow accounts, a San Francisco judge ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Malicious Prosecution Suit After Arbitration Is Barred
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Submitting to private arbitration to resolve a lawsuit bars a defendant from later bringing a malicious prosec...
Among actions announced Monday, April 16, 2001 by the justices were:
Transactions
Shartsis Friese: MERRILL LYNCH FINANCES FOLSOM WASTE COMPANY
By Staff Writer
Waste Connections Inc. has closed a $115 million private offering of convertible notes with Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. as th...
Three years ago, Jeffrey Cohen represented Fox Entertainment Group when it bought the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Today...
Los Angeles' Cotkin Collins & Ginsburg has donated computer equipment to a local elementary school. Last month, the firm g...
Transactions
Cooley Godward: SAN DIEGO'S SUREBEAM AIMS AT INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING
By Staff Writer
SureBeam Corp. has gone public in an offering valued at $74 million. San Diego's SureBeam uses an electronic pasteurization pr...
Firm Watch
Holland & Knight: PAIR OF LOCAL PARTNERS TAKES LEADERSHIP ROLES
By Staff Writer
Tampa's Holland & Knight elected two West Coasters to its 25-member directors' committee. Not a bad showing for the Golden...
Firm Watch
Simpson Thacher: NBC PLANS TO FOLD ONLINE OPERATIONS INTO NETWORK
By Staff Writer
Television network NBC Inc. will buy the outstanding shares of NBC Internet Inc. for $150 million. NBC already owns 38 percent...
Firm Watch
Morrison & Foerster: MOFO TRIES SOMETHING NEW IN TOKYO AND CENTURY CITY
By Staff Writer
Effective April 1, April Fool's Day in the United States but the start of the new fiscal year for most Japanese businesses, th...
It used to be that one of the benefits working in a corporate legal department was there were no dreaded time sheets to fill o...
Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, based in Los Angeles, has elevated two associates. John Henning Jr. and Wi...
Lawyers are sheriffs of companies, the ethical backbones, the only things standing between companies and corporate anarchy. We...