A hot piece of real estate in the San Fernando Valley soon may be in the hands of a new owner. AH Warner Center Properties has...
Column by Eugene C. Moscovitch - Many attorneys and mediators who specialize in employment law are quick to distance themselve...
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has added yet another chapter to the year-old tale of law firm layoffs. The firm's announceme...
While Lyon & Lyon attorneys were busy moving into Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Los Angeles office last week, Blase...
Litigation
Experienced Litigator Joins Panel At JAMS in Southern California
By Stefanie Knapp
June Lehrman joined the panel of resolution experts in Southern California at JAMS. Lehrman, 43, brings with her a decade of a...
Following two months of intense negotiations, Mountain View software maker Synopsys Inc. has signed an agreement to buy privat...
With her employment litigation practice "going gangbusters," Carroll, Burdick & McDonough's Angela Bradstreet is pleased a...
Litigation
$2 Million Settlement in Rape CaseBodes Well for New Firm
By Joan Osterwalder
David M. Ring of Taylor & Ring didn't take a single deposition in pursuing a sexual assault and negligence lawsuit against...
Most problems have solutions - and the potential for lots of money to be made along the way. Case in point: Sunnyvale's OneSec...
Meet Courtney Weber, the new voice of traditionally tight-lipped Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. If history is any indic...
Litigation
Casey Gerry Partner Will Become Trial Lawyers President in 2003
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America named David S. Casey Jr., partner at San Diego's Casey Gerry Reed & Schenk, pr...
Litigation
Workshop Will Focus on Employing Technology in Dispute Resolution
By Stefanie Knapp
The Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service and the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Services will...
Gary Ottoson has left Haight, Brown & Bonesteel for the Los Angeles office of Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson. The Sa...
Litigation
Judge Retires After Two Decades Of Service in Los Angeles Courts
By Leslie Simmons
After 20 years on the bench, Judge Alban Niles will retire Oct. 4. Niles, 69, has been sitting as a Superior Court judge since...
Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge James Bascue recently issued the following assignment orders: As of Monday, crimina...
If you bash, you pay. That's the message Derek Henkle and his lawyers want to send to school districts nationwide after settli...
To Shawn Khorrami, they are victims of an insidious poison implanted in the mouths of millions of Americans. One is a Newport ...
Litigation
Bar Presentation Will Address Litigating in Global Economy
By Stefanie Knapp
If you're planning to take your case around the world, check out the Bar Association of San Francisco's "One Dispute, Two (or ...
Religion teaches tolerance, a sentiment that may help resolve by the end of the month a land use dispute between an Orange Cou...
As Sept. 11 approaches, most eyes will turn to New York and Washington, D.C., in remembrance of lives lost one year ago in ter...
Litigation
Muslim Settles Claim Against Proselytizing Christian Boss
By Joan Osterwalder
Claims by a Muslim engineer at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power that he was harassed for years by his boss, a pro...
If gay and lesbian high school students find a Central Valley school district more tolerant these days, they might have George...
MailFrontier Inc. is fed up with junk e-mail, and a Silicon Valley law firm is helping the company fight the spammers. The com...
Curious to see how far some of California's biggest attorneys have come in their careers, EXTRA did a little digging. Not ever...
SAN FRANCISCO - French Resistance fighter Michel Thomas has lost his defamation battle against the Los Angeles Times, which c...
SAN FRANCISCO - "I think I know what a catch is," Superior Court Judge James J. McBride announced during a hearing to determin...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Backpedaling in Suit Against State Judiciary
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In a major development in the bitter fight against California's tough, new ethical standards for arbitrators, ...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Will Consider Whether Ballot Designation Misleads
By Leslie Simmons
The Court of Appeal will hear arguments on Sept. 10 as to whether Los Angeles Superior Court candidate Paul Bacigalupo can use...
LANCASTER - An assignment to the Antelope Valley Courthouse might not sit well with everyone. Most people would find little ap...
LOS ANGELES - After weeks of confusion, the Avon Foundation said Friday the remaining three Avon breast cancer fundraising wal...