Forum Column - By James Acret, A harsh and dangerous new law has been unleashed on a mostly unsuspecting and unprepared constr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday demanded a voice in the reorganization of Pacific Gas and Ele...
LOS ANGELES - Insolvency expert Jeffrey Krause is returning to venerable Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique Stutman, Treister &am...
Forum Column - By Suzanne Evans, Last month, a Louisiana man who intentionally dragged a dog to death in May 2001 was sentence...
Judges and Judiciary
Booted Judge Seeks Hearing to Get His Law License Reinstated
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg, booted from the bench last year by the Commission on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The former defense lawyer for a man who has spent nearly two decades in prison for a double murder acknowledge...
Judges and Judiciary
Every Story Has Two Sides Worth Hearing, Jurist Says
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Judge Barbara Meiers, a 20-year veteran of Los Angeles' municipal and superior courts, doesn't have to listen fo...
ADR Practitioner Column - By Richard Chernick, This is the second part of the 2001 review of significant developments in ADR p...
LOS ANGELES - In a decision long awaited by employment lawyers, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has ruled in an unpublished o...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Pooley, one of Silicon Valley's preeminent intellectual property litigators, has left the well-establish...
SAN JOSE - Bill Priest fell just short two years ago in his bid to win election to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. This...
SAN FRANCISCO - Real estate law expert Harry Miller, of Miller Starr & Regalia in Walnut Creek, died Friday after a two-ye...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Monday that, when a defendant who is out on bail pleads guilty, the court must either c...
Appellate Practice
Fines and Fees For 10-Year Delay in Death Penalty Brief
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court cracked down hard Monday on a Sacramento civil litigator for failing for more tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has ordered a halt to a state-financed program to reduce fire danger in California fores...
Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - It is said that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. In a recent article ti...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated they will reject the claim by a group of landowners around Lake Ta...
Appellate Practice
Vengeful Pooh Torments Disney Rodent in Epic Honey-Money Dispute
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh continues to thump the living daylights out of Mickey Mouse in their epic, largely se...
Family Law Practitioner Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Marriage creates a fiduciary relat...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Wednesday for Thomas Berkley, who had a long and varied career as a lawyer, pu...
Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - Stories try to make order out of chaos. They shape our lives. They instruct us. They connect ...
Dicta Column - By Anne Bothwell - Dear Anne: I have been given the responsibility of being marketing partner at the firm, whic...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Dolores Y. Leal - Congratulations to Sacramento legislators and Gov. Gray Davis for passin...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: FIRST-YEAR ASSOCIATES WILL LOSE HEFTY STIPEND
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins has eliminated the $10,000 stipends that it customarily gives to its incoming first-year att...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman: 95-LAWYER MENLO PARK OFFICE UNDERGOES CHANGING OF GUARD
By Staff Writer
Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 's Menlo Park office. Y...
In the largest biotechnology merger in the United States, Amgen Inc. has acquired Immunex Corp. The stock and cash deal, annou...
Imediation acquired arcadiaOne Inc. in a stock and cash deal that closed Nov. 12. The terms of the deal are undisclosed. Paris...
Cynthia Pevehouse joined Ask Jeeves Inc. as its general counsel in January 2000 when the company was still swelling with succe...
Minneapolis-based Metronic Inc. has acquired Endonetics Inc. of San Diego in a deal announced Dec. 19. Medtronic provides prod...
Jeffrey Berman, 55, never intended to be an employment lawyer. In fact, he didn't give much thought to life after the Bar Exa...