Alternative Dispute Resolution
Client Jams JAMS Over Bias and Lack of Refund
By Denise Levin
A man claims in a lawsuit that the alternative dispute resolution firm JAMS has failed to refund his money after the arbitrato...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alban I. Niles once again found himself in court on the wrong side of the bench Friday, where...
Mother of Dead Boy Sues School District Los Angeles civil rights attorney Melanie Lomax Friday filed a $10 million wrongful de...
RightStart.com Inc., a Westlake Village-based children's education retailer, filed to issue an initial public offering of $69 ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Getting No Rest in the City That Never Sleeps
By Katherine Gaidos
The next time Blair White wants to see New York City, he will remember not to plan his visit as part of a business trip. White...
New York's Bell Atlantic Corp., GTE, and London's Vodafone AirTouch have finalized a merger agreement valued at more than $70 ...
SANTA ANA - U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter approved a preliminary injunction Friday allowing students at El Modena ...
Columbus, Ohio-based Sterling Commerce Inc., which provides services to Internet businesses, has sold its XcelleNet division t...
Constitutional Law Pressing Protection High Court Upholds Reporter Freedoms and Privileges The court ruled that instead of ban...
If you want to be a better trial lawyer, take ballet, Cynthia Plevin , the first woman to practice and make partner at Sedgwic...
Bail Upped For Attorney SANTA ANA - John Franklyn Watkins, one of two Glendora lawyers charged with conspiring to obstruct jus...
More Berkeley Than Brentwood When Sara Jane Olson's bomb-conspiracy trial commences sometime in the next few months, it will u...
Entertainment & Sports
9th Circuit Spikes Purported Co-Authors Malcolm X Claim
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Clarifying the definition of "author" in joint works, a federal appeals court has rejected the copyright and c...
Patent prosecutor J.D. Harriman , head of the intellectual property group at Los Angeles-based Hecker & Harriman , has jo...
Alan Hodes , a former partner at Limbach & Limbach in San Jose, has joined McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in Palo ...
Pittsburgh's Kirkpatrick & Lockhart has acquired Freshman, Marantz, Orlanski, Cooper & Klein , a 17-attorney, general...
Judges and Judiciary
Peers Remember Keefe as Fair, Caring Jurist
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert H. Keefe, remembered by colleagues as a firm and fair jurist and a cari...
Land use attorney William R. Devine has joined the Costa Mesa office of San Francisco-based Pillsbury Madison & Sutro as ...
The largest labor law firm, Littler Mendelson , with 380 attorneys, has opened an office in Columbus, Ohio. James Ferber , fo...
Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser of Palo Alto has elevated four new partners: M. Scott Donahey, Jill E. Fishbein, James R...
In a tentative setback for Sara Jane Olson's defense, the trial judge said Friday he does not believe he has authority to appr...
An example of a county that provides minor's counsel is Los Angeles, which has the largest number of dependency cases in the n...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Oil Giants Merger May Turn On Judges Market Definition
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission's attempt in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to block BP Amoco's acquisition of...
For many California counties, particularly the smaller ones, money is the obstacle to providing attorneys for children in juve...