In Akers v. Sellers, 114 Ind. App. 660 (1944), Chief Judge Harry L. Crumpacker found the following for the court: This is a co...
Judges and Judiciary
Orange County Court Receives Kleps Award
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - The Orange County Superior Court is this year's winner of the Ralph N. Kleps Award, the highest recognition for a ...
LOS ANGELES - The fledgling Chapman University School of Law Library stacks up impressively against its older, more venerable ...
LOS ANGELES - Litigator Eric N. Landau started work Monday as partner with the Securities and Exchange Commission defense prac...
Mark Jan. 8, 2001, as a banner day for the First Amendment, specifically for the principle that individuals cannot be forced t...
For many busy attorneys, the act of declaring 'under penalty of perjury' loses its mystique. ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Saturday for Gregory W. Goff, tax attorney and partner at Los Angeles' O'Melv...
SAN DIEGO - After an 18-month investigation, the state attorney general's office began presenting evidence to a grand jury Mon...
SAN DIEGO - A judge declined Monday to order probation for former San Diego Councilwoman Valerie Stallings, who was convicted ...
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino City Council Monday gave the city clerk's office the green light to hire an outside lawyer...
Government
A Thousand Points of Darkness Reveal Competency-Challenged Bureaucracies
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Sometimes the criminal justice system in Los Angeles seems to consist of a thousand points of darkness. Daily Jo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two accords that have so far gotten relatively little notice hold the potential for significantly altering the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last week, a junk-fax flyer screaming "Giant Law Firm Loses - Case Closed" caught the eye of San Rafael real e...
LOS ANGELES - In a move praised by police backers but denounced by many others, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan Monday fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Invoking an executive power reserved for emergency or war, Gov. Gray Davis seized millions of dollars in energ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The district attorney's office dismissed charges Monday against a highly-regarded deputy public defender who w...
LOS ANGELES - Calling it the only humane and economically sensible thing to do, Rep. Howard Berman, D-Mission Hills, said Mond...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tenants and cities with rent control laws got a win Monday when the California Supreme Court ruled that landlo...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA WILL HONOR ANGELA OH WITH AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
By Staff Writer
The American Bar Association will honor Angela Oh with its Inspirational Award of Excellence at its midyear meeting in San Die...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights honored U.S. District Court Senior Judge Thelton Henderson...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ford was right about Ford, a California appellate court said Friday. The same judge who told Ford Motor Compan...
Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited an experienced appellate and litigation attorney for its Los Angeles off...
Firm Watch
Mayer Brown: CHICAGO BIGGIE SAYS 'OUI' TO CORPORATE PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Chicago's Mayer Brown & Platt acquired a certain je ne sais quoi with its Jan. 1 addition of the Paris corporate boutique ...
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Weil Gotshal: CHIP MAKER INTEL LAYS OUT $784 MILLION FOR XIRCOM
By Staff Writers
Intel Corp. has agreed to acquire Xircom Inc. in a deal valued at $748 million. Santa Clara's Intel Corp. is the world's large...
Firm Watch
Manatt Phelps: POLICY, LAND USE PLANNER JOINS AS FULL-TIME ADVISER
By Staff Writer
Vivian Rescalvo, a land use planner who has worked for the city and county of Los Angeles and the city of Torrance, joined the...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: NEWLY MERGED SHOP ADDS LATERALS IN TWO BRANCHES
By Staff Writer
Pillsbury Winthrop, that San Francisco and New York amalgam established this year, has added five California lawyers in its fi...
The TV commercials for Intel's Pentium processors, which are as hip as they are ubiquitous, don't paint a complete picture of ...
Meeting a challenge issued by the American Bar Association and Georgetown University Law Center, Latham & Watkins donated ...
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Brobeck Phleger: PORTLAND'S TRIPWIRE WINS THIRD ROUND OF FINANCING
By Staff Writer
Tripwire Inc. has secured $24 million in third-round venture financing led by private-placement group Deutsche Banc Alex.Brow...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn & Crutcher held a private art sale at the firm on Thursday to benefit at-risk inner...