SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer is reviewing charges that trade groups and state regulators have committed anticom...
SAN DIEGO - To heighten awareness of elder abuse, Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood put up a billboard and distributed ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Defunct Pasadena Firm Faces Malpractice Suit
By Don De Benedictis
The city of Inglewood and three of its officials have filed a malpractice suit against a defunct Pasadena law firm, charging ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Fertility Scandal Not Over, Even With $17M Paid
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
IRVINE - Described by attorneys as one of the toughest cases they've ever dealt with, the University of California, Irvine fe...
Entertainment & Sports
Katzenberg and Disney Settle for Undisclosed Sum
By Martin Bergn
Drawing the curtain on one of the most bitterly fought, high-stakes courtroom disputes in Hollywood history, the Walt Disney ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A single sentence on the last page of a 1996 police newsletter could change how police around California work ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
JAMS Approves Buyout by Its Top Managers
By Tom Orewyler
JAMS/Endispute's board of directors on Tuesday voted to approve a $3 million deal between the Irvine-based ADR provider and a...
By J. Grant Kennedy It appears that many people have strong feelings against lawyers. Some lawyers throw gas on the fire by c...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $500,000 settlement Tuesday of a lawsuit filed by a company president ...
Calling new security screening systems at the downtown Los Angeles County Courthouse "a sad necessity," family law attorney R...
Intellectual Property
Firms Discover Success Means Moving From Downtown
By Martin Kruming
SAN DIEGO - While most of this city's lawyers still work downtown, several firms have staked out their future to the north in...
SAN JOSE - Claude M. Stern never intended to become a Y2K expert nor an intellectual property litigator. Nor, for that matter...
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Los Angeles police officer who claimed his personnel records illegally were...
One of two attorneys charged in a large auto insurance fraud case has refused to surrender as promised and is now considered ...
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Sheila B. Allen has beaten tremendous odds all her life. Leaving a large family s...
SAN DIEGO - More than 2,200 pages of grand jury testimony and documents released Tuesday reveal a San Diego mayor who at time...
Striking Out Jury Selection Has Become Responsive to Everybody's Rights A major strategic victory can be won, because raising ...
By Maier Rosenberg Attorneys routinely incur costs that will eventually be billed to the client. Most lawyers conclude that t...
Solo and Small Firms
News: Milbank Tweed Powers Up With Nine Associates -- S.F. Boutique Merges Into Holland Outpost -- Danz & Gerber Relocates Headquarters
By From Staff Reports
MILBANK TWEED POWERS UP WITH NINE ASSOCIATES New York-based Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy added nine new associates and...
Two Masters EMPLOYMENT LAW: Workers leased from an employment agency may also be common-law employees of the recipient of the...
Securities
The Intel Corp. entered into a definitive merger agreement with Dialogic Corp. of Parsippany, N.J., on June 1. Intel will acqu...
By Stacy L. Cohen Corporate lawyers have a news flash for outside counsel: If you want to get business from them, forget the ...
^^Professional Responsibility^^ Prove It! Malpractice Plaintiffs Must Show More Than 'Settler's Remorse' The court relied on ...
Law Practice
Firm Watch: Corporate Expertise Added to Palo Alto Office -- AZ Firm Shutters Silicon Valley Office -- Tax Lawyer Joins Former Firm in Beltway Office
By Pearl Piatt, Leslie Gordon & J. Byrd
In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot. Abraham Linco...
SAN FRANCISCO - A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is probing whether the plan to privatize Internet Web site r...
Dealmaker: Richard A. Strong of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. On Memorial Day weekend, Richard A. Strong wasn't enjoying a fami...
Solo and Small Firms
For Lawyer, Sports Photography Just Clicks
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
After a full day of courtroom combat, toxic tort specialist Richard Giller often finds himself facing a different kind of bat...
By Mark B. Vezzani Experienced attorneys know knowledge of the law does not ensure a win. On balance, facts win lawsuits and ...
VENTURA - A Ventura civil attorney has filed an anti-SLAPP motion against an attempted murder suspect and his attorney, claim...
Unreasonable Woman EMPLOYMENT LAW: The federal courts have not balked at summarily adjudicating in employers' favor cases in ...