LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has launched an informational Web site that allows attorneys and the public to access qu...
Intellectual Property Practitioner Column - By Donald M. Gindy, Trademark owners strive to retain customer loyalty by producin...
LOS ANGELES - The American Corporate Counsel Association has issued its inaugural comprehensive study of in-house lawyers. The...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court has decided to review the 4th District Court of Appeal's decision in a controversia...
WASHINGTON - In the latest chapter in the ongoing Enron scandal, the General Accounting Office plans to file an unprecedented ...
Focus Column - By Benjamin Scheibe, The ongoing controversy over DVD decryption technology has produced yet another startling ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Curiosity About Justice Department's Statue Cover-Up Could Expand
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - No nudes is good nudes. This ancient schoolyard pun flashed across my mind this week when I read the ...
LOS ANGELES - Margaret S. Henry's chambers have that tousled look of offices stalled in transition from old occupant's style t...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson, To many of us, the image of the farmer at his plow is right up there with motherhood and ice...
SAN BERNARDINO - District Attorney Dennis Stout is no stranger to the rigors of campaigning for elected office. To become Ranc...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Man Who Abused Dog Is Mentally Ill, Court Rules
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Nobody disputed that David Dyer slit a dog's throat and planned to cook the animal and eat it. The Oroville man ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Young Lawyers' New Head Oozes Enthusiasm, Energy
By Jenna Bordelon
PASADENA - Laura Farber admits she has trouble saying "No" to a good cause. So despite a sometimes hectic job as partner at Pa...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Tuesday that a court cannot remove a lawyer from a case because of an "appearance of im...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday denied bail for two Jewish Defense League leaders accused of plotting to blow up a Culve...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman, The Sept. 11 holocaust at the World Trade Center, the illegal detention of over a thousand i...
Appellate Law Practitioner Column - By David S. Ettinger, California's rules governing appellate practice are undergoing their...
Entertainment & Sports
Jewish Law Understands and Permits Retaliation by Shaq
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Yitzchok Adlerstein and Michael Broyde, If Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O'Neal needs to improve hi...
LOS ANGELES - Citing client conflicts and a desire for a fresh start, 18 lawyers are leaving the Southland insurance defense a...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Will Study Splitting Off Conference
By Don Debenedictisn
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California and its controversial offspring, the Conference of Delegates, took a dramatic step S...
Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Benjamin R. Martin, Employers often wish that they could use noncompete agreements in ...
Column by Garry Abrams - Was Mariah Carey's recording contract politely "canceled" like a stamp? Or was it vengefully "termina...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg, It is time to reconsider the division of labor in California's civil courts. In many of the...
Forum Column - By Sean Carter, W.C. Fields once said, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again; then quit - there's no u...
LOS ANGELES - Fine-tuning the scope of the California Arbitration Act, an appellate court has ruled that parties to an arbitra...
Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz, With advances in medicine, you may find that it is entirely possible to spend 30 years in reti...
LOS ANGELES - William J. Birney is particularly proud of the part he played in two legal accomplishments. They are his sons, l...
Public Storage Inc. priced a public offering of 6 million depositary shares on Jan. 15. The offering brought in $150 million. ...
Robert Sloss , an intellectual property partner at General Counsel Associates , has left the Mountain View firm to join Farell...
The high priests of "good writing" are trying to convince lawyers to change the way they write. They want us to organize our t...
Firm Watch
Mitchell Silbererg: LITIGATOR RUNS WITHOUT COMPETITION IN ELECTION
By Staff Writer
Thomas Lambert is finishing up his first month as managing partner of Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp , a 125-att...