Focus Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson - In the United States, Section 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act provides certain grou...
Letters to the Editor - In their article "'Harper' Protects Gay Sensitivities, Not Free Speech" (April 28 Daily Journal), Robe...
The general counsel for the Screen Actors Guild, David White, will step down after his contract ends next month. ...
Firm Watch
Davis Wright Entices Labor Practitioner to Its San Francisco Fold
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Davis Wright Tremaine's San Francisco office unit acquired a veteran labor and employment practitioner to help...
Firm Watch
Greenberg Traurig Spirits Away Veteran Paul Hastings Real-Estate Litigator
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Continuing its steady rate of expansion, Greenberg Traurig recruited Eric Rowen away from Paul, Hastings, Janofs...
Firm Watch
Stoel Rives Adds Four Lawyers to Bolster Its Presence in Northern California
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Implementing its strategy to increase the number of attorneys in Northern California, Stoel Rives announced la...
LOS ANGELES - Fred I. Bernstein, a prominent entertainment attorney and the former president of Columbia TriStar Motion Pictur...
SAN FRANCISCO - National environmental firm Beveridge & Diamond added two new partners and an associate to its San Franci...
RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County chapter of VIP-Mentors recently presented its Outstanding Attorney Volunteer Award to crimina...
SAN FRANCISCO - The whistle-blower at the center of a class action alleging that AT&T Corp. helps spy on Americans has poo...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Insiders Say Staff Friction Led to BASF Director's Departure
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - The sudden departure of Martha Whetstone from her post as executive director of the Bar Association of San Fra...
A federal appellate court's dismissal of an Orange County couple's bid for same-sex marriage rights was met with a sigh of rel...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a page from IBM's playbook, the California Legislature could decide this year whether to create a state...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Cypers joined Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Los Angeles office from Heller Ehrman as a partner. Cypers,...
LOS ANGELES - GE Real Estate has completed its acquisition of Arden Realty Inc., the largest publicly-traded office landlord i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kevin O'Keefe sat hunched over his Powerbook G4 in the ballroom of San Francisco's Pan Pacific Hotel last week...
Government Contracts
Bush Picks Another L.A. Judge for the Central District Bench
By David Houstonn
For the second time in as many weeks, President Bush nominated a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to fill a seat on the...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Single-Payer Bill Must Be Passed to Provide Health Care for All
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - As the Bush administration continues to ignore the national health insurance and health ca...
Labor/Employment
Avoiding Legal Hassles With Unworkable Co-Workers and Toxic Bosses
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - A large majority of workplace disputes arise from mere interpersonal conflict. Studie...
Focus Column - By Bill Detamore and Bob Dove - When a general counsel is presented with a bill for electronic discovery, a typ...
LOS ANGELES - A Sherman Oaks couple has won a $1.8 million settlement from the city of Glendale and a national anti-fraud orga...
LOS ANGELES - The entire Los Angeles Superior Court bench has been recused from a lawsuit alleging that judges have been colle...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Going Global to Mix Diplomacy and Arbitration
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - International lawyer, scholar, arbitrator and former federal judge Abraham D. Sofaer just got back from a busi...
LOS ANGELES - Twice a week, during lunch, three lawyers drive from downtown Los Angeles to San Gabriel, take off their suits, ...
Amid cost-cutting measures following a merger that doubled his firm's size, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's new chairman-ele...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles city ordinance ostensibly adopted to protect grocery workers, as well as health and safety standar...
Judicial Profile
Solving the Puzzles of Law in an L.A. Misdemeanor Court
By Leslie Simmonsn
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rex A. Heeseman knew he wanted to be a lawyer when he was in junior high school...
WASHINGTON - The sun may finally be setting on the Bush administration's controversial nomination of William G. Myers III to t...
LOS ANGELES - For weeks, the partners at Los Angeles' Christensen Miller law firm have struggled to maintain a united front in...
SANTA ANA - Criminal defense attorneys have an ethical duty to zealously represent their clients, and that zeal often ramps up...