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During Holiday Cool-Down, Speculation About Intel Deal Heats Up
By Rick Kennedyn
DEALS COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - The holidays are is a season rife with speculation. As mysterious gifts pile up under the Chr...
Construction
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Jury Finds Tutor-Saliba Liable in MTA's False-Claim Case
By Max Follmer
LOS ANGELES - Construction giant Tutor-Saliba Corp. filed false claims and overbilled the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Tran...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana and former members of Led Zeppelin and The Doors are suing an online purveyo...
SAN DIEGO - Faced with unresolved questions of California constitutional law, a federal appellate court on Monday asked the st...
Psychodrama Method Uses Role Playing to Create Emotional Connections at Trial
LOS ANGELES - The nine lawyers at Los Angeles litigation boutique O'Brien Abeles will join Arent Fox, establishing the first W...
The California Supreme Court on Monday vindicated a former Los Angeles attorney who offered no defense at trial for a client f...
Discipline
Lockyer Puts Lawyer on Oversight Agency
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a last appointment, Attorney General Bill Lockyer selected a veteran political-law attorney from his office fo...
George Hamilton Link, a former managing partner of the now-defunct San Francisco firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, died Th...
Judges and Judiciary
After Leaving Bench, Ex-Superior Court Judge Was a Mediator
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - Services for retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Norman R. Dowds will take place Friday in San Gabriel.
SUSPENSIONS
SAN FRANCISCO - Unless California switches to a one-drug sedative for executing death-row prisoners, it will remain vulnerable...
LOS ANGELES - Goodwin Procter took advantage of the uncertainty surrounding Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan to net Rachae...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - When a hotly contested child custody dispute spills o...
Law Practice
After 40 Years, Lawyers in B-Ball League Still Playing Hard
By Noah Barronn
LOS ANGELES - The Suns' Tony Brown of Selman Breitman drives low under the hoop and calls for the ball.
Government
Lawyers on Lockyer's Staff Will Stay With Him
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Outgoing Attorney General Bill Lockyer is taking several of his key staff with him to the state treasurer's offic...
LOS ANGELES - Partners with Pittsburgh-based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Seattle's Preston, Gates & El...
O'Melveny & Myers announced the promotion of eight partners in the firm's California offices.
LOS ANGELES - Daniel K. Donahue and David J. Perry started working together in 1986.
SAN JOSE - Federal prosecutors finally have claimed their first convictions under a 1996 law designed to prevent economic espi...
Government
The Getty Should Resist Italy's Pressure to Return Prized Statue
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu - The J. Paul Getty Museum has been fighting to keep the core of its antiquities coll...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - I read with interest the article titled "Collecting Unpaid Fees" in the Nov. 24 issue of the Los Angele...
FORUM COLUMN - By Steven Anderson - As President Bush and the new Democratic-led Congress seek common ground to do the people'...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica-based board games company Morning Star Games, whose Web site address was besieged earlier this mont...
LOS ANGELES - With term limits forcing California Assembly Majority Leader Dario J. Frommer out of office, he surveyed the ter...
RIVERSIDE - In a blow to the prosecution, a Riverside County judge Friday dismissed potential death-penalty enhancements again...
State Bar & Bar Associations
L.A.'s Federal Bar Chief Aims for a Collegial Central District
By Carri Karuhnn
LOS ANGELES - The Central District is the largest federal jurisdiction in the nation. But Janet Levine, who three months ago t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of stockholders is asking AT&T and Verizon for something special this holiday season: a report on ...
LOS ANGELES - Less than a year after taking over the top job at the state's largest federally funded legal services program, V...
Judge Robert Yonts to Step Down From Santa Cruz Bench