Frequent Flyer By Tamara Scott Once a week, San Francisco lawyer Charles "Chuck" Birenbaum spends one night and two days in L...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Santa Monica Bar to Install Officers
By From Staff Reports
Santa Monica Bar To Install Officers Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Victor E. Chavez will serve as keynote speake...
Large Firms
Firm Watch: Former O.J. Lawyer Merges With New Yorker -- Real Estate Partner Goes In-House at Catellus -- Brock and Zipp Leave Law Firm Life for Good -- Finance Partner Added in Northern California -- New Incentive Given to Reward Associates -- Corp....
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Samuel Goldwyn Cochran Cherry FORMER O.J. LAWYER MERGES WITH NEW YOR...
Zipping Lips Technology and a fluid job market have increased the chances for rogue employees and contractors to leak confide...
Bear Essentials A tussle over Winnie-the-Pooh could become a big public access battle now that Walt Disney Co. is accused of ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Beverly Hills Bar Installs Officers
By From Staff Reports
Beverly Hills Bar Installs Officers Nicholas R. Allis has been installed as president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. O...
By Gerald F. Uelmen Justice Stanley Mosk, who is about to break the record for longevity of service on the California Supreme...
By Jeffrey Anderson In June, Michael Small received a strange letter. The author, writing on behalf of an "anonymous friend,"...
Tech Emergency! An international coalition of law firms battles the Internet Age's borderless vexations. By Leslie A. Gordon ...
^^Land Use Law^^ Uncharted Territory Takings Cases Don't Always Have to Be Tried Before a Jury The court found that where, as...
By Doug Bandow The federal government is now following the states in seeking to extort billions from the tobacco industry. Ci...
Harry Macey , an intellectual property partner at Morrison & Foerster in Palo Alto, is known within his firm as the Bioni...
Law Practice
Deals: Solectron Makes a Smart Selection -- Warehouse Sale Brings in Millions -- Interscience Acquires Camino Software -- Dell Converges in a New Acquisition -- Franklin Realty Sells to Lend Lease -- Calico Goes Public, Nips $64.4 Million --E-Commerce....
By Jason Song And Katherine Gaidos
Wilson Sonsini SOLECTRON MAKES A SMART SELECTION Milpitas-based Solectron, a worldwide electronics manufacturer, recently pur...
Two billion dollars was of little interest to Nevan Elam, associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and counsel for S...
Peak Experience Premium Law Zenith Man The Guardian The Protector Company Man Norman Beegun has spent the 25 years with Zenit...
^^Securities Law^^ By Elizabeth Mann In 1995 Congress enacted the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, 15 U.S.C. Section...
A confirmation hearing on Gov. Gray Davis' judicial appointments to the 2nd District Court of Appeal has been scheduled for N...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tales From the Crypt Give Fuel for Class-Action Fire
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - They thought they were donating the bodies of loved ones to science. But rather than educating a future doctor or...
Catching Fakes Courts May Grant Ex Parte Seizure Orders in Counterfeit Cases By Edward O. Lear Counterfeiting costs all U.S. ...
^^ The Practice ^^ By M.C. Sungaila It's official - George Vogelman did it. He beheaded Susan Robbin (though he was acquitted...
City Settles Police Explorers Case The Santa Monica City Council has approved a $50,000 settlement for a 15-year-old Police E...
Lawyers Reactivate Westside Group A group of Westside lawyers has reactivated the L.A. West chapter of the American Inns of C...
Judges to Model For Fashion Show Women Lawyers of Long Beach will hold its annual fashion show, featuring District Attorney G...
^^Family Law^^ By Erin O'Bryan These ethically challenged bunch of lawyers are at it again, this time getting romantic with c...
Just Reward Pending Legislation Would Protect Compilers of Databases Database providers have expressed their concern that the...
By Kevin M. "Casey" Christensen According to recent articles, there are not only too few judicial positions to handle Califor...
Memorial services will be held today for Long Beach trial lawyer Robert H. Lund. Lund died Saturday following a long battle w...
SAN DIEGO - The first witness testifying in a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination and retaliation against a former dep...
A joint committee of Los Angeles Municipal and Superior Court judges late Wednesday released its answers to many of the probl...
DENVER - To help decide if a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the murder of JonBennet Ramsey, Colorado G...
