SAN FRANCISCO - Opening its first West Coast bankruptcy practice, Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis has acquired Century City ba...
LOS ANGELES - Articles in two New York-based magazines about supposed links among Los Angeles Police Department officers, L.A....
SAN FRANCISCO - "Pearls Before Swine" is a deceptively simple comic strip about a megalomaniacal rat and a slow-witted pig. Th...
LOS ANGELES - Growing up, Eric M. George thought he wanted to be a doctor until he realized he liked the blood and guts of pol...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Rejects Proposal for Retention Elections
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council voted Wednesday to oppose a proposal to eliminate contested elections for trial jud...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Minnesota company trying to enforce a contract clause forbidding an employee from taking a job with a compet...
In their May 9, 2001, article "Eye-Balling It," James P. Barber and William J. Baron argue that Cottle v. Superior Court
To understand and control trial preparation, counsel must develop a strategic plan. The plan should address staffing the case,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Bruhns, a young real estate lawyer who recently made partner, died at Stanford University hospital Monday...
Robert J. Vars, sole practitioner in Encino, won a $267,000 jury verdict in a premises liability case, Ghavifekr v. Prezzo<...
It may have been greed or power or lies. Any one of these could have trapped Helene Singer. But it was actually five large box...
Susan Cooley and Marc Sallus find insight in some unusual places. For Cooley, 48, it comes while kayaking off San Diego. ...
I am biased in favor of arbitration, as a theoretical and an empirical matter. Compared to litigation, it seems to me by far t...
For Gordon Reid Wallack, his family's 1967 move from Alabama to Beverly Hills was like moving to another country. Or like goin...
There is no greater gift an attorney can receive than the grateful handshake of a person whom he has helped. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's top bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, calling Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s cust...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Suits Claim Dental Groups Hid Health Hazards
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A former dental assistant, a dental patient and consumer groups have sued the American and California dental ass...
SANTA ANA - The In-N-Out Burgers fast-food chain has sued Texas-based competitor Whataburger Inc. over its allegedly illegal u...
RIVERSIDE - The 4th District Court of Appeal has cleared the way for a lawsuit trying to kill a contract between the state and...
LOS ANGELES - Under the terms of a deal hammered out between the Bush administration and California's two Democratic senators,...
SEATTLE - An employer discriminates against women if it excludes birth-control pills from its health insurance plan, a federal...
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee, in a move to force action on California's energy crisis, approved a bill ...
Labor/Employment
Sheppard Mullin Picks San Diego Partner as Statewide Firm Chair
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Guy N. Halgren has been elected the first San Diego partner to chair Los Angeles-based Sheppard, Mullin, Richter...
The federal government's top bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, calling Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s customers "captives...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's payback time in the aftermath of the antagonistic and unsuccessful Marin County recall campaign against D...
LOS ANGELES - On the desk in financier Gerald L. Parsky's West Los Angeles office are large stacks of documents, each represen...
LOS ANGELES - One of the world's largest commercial real estate service companies did not retaliate against the company's form...
The parties' power to choose an arbitrator extends not just to the selection of a sole arbitrator, but also to the decision to...
Armato found Section 664.6 perfectly suited to modify child-support orders, implementing the preference of the Legislature for...
Although the bar passage rate is usually under half, partners speak of bar-failers as if they were as rare as lightning-strike...