Focus Column - International Law - By Winston Zee - Doing business in China frequently involves entertainment, favors and gift...
SAN FRANCISCO - California free speech law is at a crossroads: Apparently it's OK for Santa Cruz peace activists to drape ant...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Alternative Weeklies Agree to Settlement
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Village Voice Media and New Times Media have settled a Department of Justice antitrust complaint over the altern...
Judges and Judiciary
Complex-Case Judges Say They Know Hellholes and They're Not in One
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The six judges of Los Angeles Superior Court's Central Civil West Courthouse have unanimously objecte...
SANTA ANA - When Army reservist Marc Buckler was called to active duty last month as a part of the U.S. military's preparatio...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles appellate court has reversed a $6 million punitive damage award against a vehicle parts manufactu...
WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federa...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday asked defense attorneys representing 2,000 Southland auto mechanic...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Michael A. Jacobs and William I. Schwartz started Morrison & Foerster's intellectual property group ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contrary to appearances that a grand jury convening today may examine a high-level police cover-up, District ...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Earlier this month, opening briefs were filed in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bolling...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court breathed new life Monday into a suit claiming that a San Diego area prison cheated not on...
SACRAMENTO - A measure that lawmakers hope will satisfy the courts and restore power to the California Coastal Commission too...
SANTA ANA - Carl Holmes cracks a smile as he recalls the sign that the end was near. One morning, Holmes took a quick glance ...
SAN JOSE - By accepting civil commitment at Atascadero State Hospital, a habitual child molester who had himself surgically c...
WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federal...
San Francisco's Gordon & Rees ended 2002 with the acquisition of Colin H. Murray as a partner from the San Diego office o...
Firm Watch
Hoge Fenton Entices Additional Land Use Attorney Into the Fold
By Staff Writer
The Pleasanton office of Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel has acquired another land use attorney for its growing practice ther...
By Liz Valsamis John C. "Jack" McBride is returning to Los Angeles after spending five years in New York as the general couns...
Firm Watch
O'Melveny & Myers Laterals In a Pair of Telecommunications Stars
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has added two telecommunications partners to its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announ...
By Toni Vranjes Pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. has purchased Solana Beach's Bridge Medical Inc., which ma...
Intellectual Property
Co-Branding, Done Correctly, Makes Great Marketing
By Tanya Rothman
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams It's happening across many industries. You've probably seen the ads -...
Personal Injury & Torts
Screenwriter's Harassment Lawsuit Fails to Sway Jury
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Academy Award winning screenwriter Nancy E. Dowd knows how to tell a good story. But when she claimed at a...
Firm Watch
McDermott Will Gains New L.A. Partner in Intellectual Property
By Staff Writer
Michael Oleinik jumped at the chance to be a partner in the Los Angeles office of Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery, join...
By Erik Cummins Dechert's newest office is small and focused. Unlike some firms that open offices with large groups represent...
By Stefanie Knapp There's a tradition that the president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel must uphold...
By Erik Cummins Reed Smith Crosby Heafey chose a Crosby Heafey lifer and a former law firm managing partner as the leaders of...
By Liz Valsamis The day after Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton hooked four entertainment partners from Ak...
By Liz Valsamis Bryan Cave appointed Jeffrey W. Morof as the new managing partner of the St. Louis-based firm's Santa Monica ...
By Toni Vranjes Trizec Properties Inc., a Chicago-based real estate investment trust, has sold the posh Paseo Colorado shoppi...