Labor/Employment
Legislation Exempts Some Workplace Probes From Credit Reporting Act Rules
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Forum Column - By Beth K. Whittenbury - In 1999, the Federal Trade Commission wrote an advisory opinion (known as the Vail let...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the Internal Revenue Service can require taxpayers who win...
SANTA ANA - The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused an Orange County man of fraud, claiming that he illegally pocke...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Four Attorneys Vie to Become Bar President
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Four lawyers from across California are running to become the next State Bar president, including John K. Van de...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Counsel Richard Winnie has recommended that the Board of Supervisors repeal an anti-Wal-Mart or...
SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's nonprofit organizations will no longer be immune from the scrutiny their corporate cousins face -...
Shareholders of a Pasadena technology incubator will have another chance to prove that they have a majority stake in the compa...
LOS ANGELES - The defining moment of prosecutor Summer Hathout's dedication to the cause of Muslim women came when she was pro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Convicted sex offenders who are required to register with police every year are not responsible if they send a...
Environmental
Justices Seem to Doubt Courts Can Halt Off-Road-Vehicle Use
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Monday expressed strong skepticism about whether the federal courts could order the...
WALNUT CREEK - Tough love with straight talk is delivered in Contra Costa County Commissioner Joel Golub's courtroom. As a 17-...
Entertainment & Sports
After 13-Year Donnybrook, Death Comes for Pooh Case
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A big chapter in Los Angeles legal history may have come to an abrupt end Monday with a judge's blunt...
BAKERSFIELD - John Stoll shuffled almost jauntily into the interview room at the Kern County detention facility. Despite being...
The attorney who recently helped Orson Welles' daughter win the right to sell her father's Oscar award says he succeeded by fi...
The executives at InVision Technologies Inc. have received a double dose of good news. General Electric Co. announced March 15...
Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - Washington, D.C.-The nation's Capitol was rocked today by a series of disclosures of pr...
Jarado Blue, former Pasadena school district police chief, won a $2.5 million judgment this month in his defamation lawsuit ag...
Pillsbury Winthrop has landed a mergers and acquisitions practice for its Century City office. Ray La Soya and Lino J. Lauro, ...
Each year, the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America attracts more than a thousand guest...
In the last two months, Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket has swept up attorneys Marilyn S. Barrett, Daniel L. Go...
A prominent UCLA heart surgeon has won a defense verdict in a case alleging that he sexually harassed two former employees. ...
Michelle LaMar has landed at Loeb & Loeb after spending close to a year at Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger. Before ...
Column - Good Company - By Jill S. Dodd - Congress enacted the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act (comm...
Media and technology company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. and satellite-television provider EchoStar Communications Cor...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Latham Advises Sale of Interpore For $280 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Ten years after taking Interpore International Inc. public, Charles Ruck has guided the company in another milestone. The Cost...
Trying to expand its presence in the data-storage market, semiconductor company Applied Micro Circuits Corp. of San Diego has ...
Some attorneys have found a creative way to plan for retirement, their children's education, or other long-term financial comm...
White-collar defense attorney Michael Attanasio has joined Cooley Godward's San Diego office, leaving his post as partner at S...
Firm Watch
Reed Smith Snags Senior Staff Attorney From State High Court
By Erik Cummins
Dennis Maio spent 17 years as a senior staff attorney to state Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk. When Mosk died in 2001, aft...
Column - Evidence - By Scott Stevens - By now, most litigators are aware of the increasing importance of digital evidence in d...