LOS ANGELES - A legal investigator who leaked confidential records to a TV reporter showing that the Los Angeles Police Depart...
Former amateur baseball pitcher Geoffrey S. Wells learned a valuable lesson about practicing law from Hall of Famer Frank Robi...
Q: What happens to mediation confidentiality when, during a joint session, it appears that the human resources director obstru...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday dismissed charges of grand theft against the wife of a once-promin...
SAN FRANCISCO - These days, most law firms will admit that growing by merger or acquisition is part of their strategy. Not at ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Takes Controversial Case Into His Own Hands
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - After failing four times to place the case in other courtrooms, Van Nuys Supervising Judge Paul Gutman announced...
SACRAMENTO - As a plaintiffs' lawyer who has fought his share of corporate giants, state Sen. Joe Dunn may be uniquely qualifi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco attorneys were indicted Tuesday in the dog mauling death of their neighbor Diane Whipple, an...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto investor on Tuesday admitted lying to securities officials about a "slip of the tongue" by a forme...
LOS ANGELES - Two former Los Angeles police officers have pleaded no contest and one has pleaded not guilty in response to the...
The genius of the American constitutional system is its recognition that mixing church and state damages both religion and dem...
The Daily Journal asks lawyers what they would do if the lights went out. ...
The reasons Mayor Richard Riordan first gave for his Feb. 5 firing of Los Angeles Police Commission President Gerald L. Chalef...
LOS ANGELES - Inglewood and Torrance courthouses on Monday joined 19 others around Los Angeles County that have implemented th...
LOS ANGELES - The family of an 83-year-old New Jersey man killed early last month in the crash of Angels Flight in downtown Lo...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Studio City entertainment attorney Harden C. Bennion. Bennion died March 2...
WASHINGTON - Randy and Valerie Pech, the white owners of Adarand Constructors Inc., a Denver construction firm specializing in...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge declined Monday to be drawn into a head-on confrontation over the ticklish question of whether...
SAN FRANCISCO - Large out-of-state corporations doing substantial business in California may be facing a legal brick wall when...
LOS ANGELES - The smirking white supremacist who boasted of shooting minorities two years ago was not in evidence Monday as Bu...
LOS ANGELES - Normally, the Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles does not rival Disneyland as the happiest place o...
"A reasonable solution seems obvious: hold a true 'public' execution - allow a public broadcast." Timothy McVeigh, in a Feb. 1...
Among actions announced Monday, March 26, 2001 by the justices were:
Transactions
Cooley Godward: WOODLAND HILLS' EL CAMINO SELLS ITS LEASING PORTFOLIO
By Staff Writer
GATX Capital Corp. has purchased the U.S. information technology lease portfolio of El Camino Resources Ltd. The deal, which c...
Firm Watch
McDermott Will: TWO JOIN WESTERN IP GROUP AT BOTH ENDS OF THE STATE
By Staff Writer
Just months after snapping up a new West Coast intellectual property head, Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two ...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: PLEASANTON-BASED SAFEWAY GETS $1.2 BILLION IN FINANCING
By Staff Writer
Supermarket giant Safeway Inc. recently completed $1.2 billion in senior notes financing. Pleasanton-based Safeway is one of N...
Firm Watch
Luce Forward: OPENING NEW OFFICE IN SAN DIEGO'S NORTH COUNTY EXPANDS HOME TURF
By Staff Writer
San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has apparently decided that one local office is not enough. On March 1, the fi...
Transactions
Irell & Manella: FIVE PARTNERS NAMED TO L.A. FIRM'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
By Staff Writer
The fierce Los Angeles corporate firm Irell & Manella started 2001 with the changeover of five lawyers in its 16-member ex...
Firm Watch
Crosby Heafey: SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE SIGNS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PRO
By Staff Writer
Rich Doyle, former general counsel for Gamut Interactive - a startup that's been put on ice due to lack of funding - has bounc...
Transactions
Baker Botts: ON COMMAND BUYS STAKE IN HOTEL DIGITAL NETWORK
By Staff Writer
On Command Corp. has bought a controlling interest in Hotel Digital Network Inc. The amount of the cash, stock and continuing-...