SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s ratepayers have possible financial claims on the utility, including potential...
New rules that limit the conditions for sealing court records in California likely will be tested for the first time in Los An...
Entertainment & Sports
Slurs on Videotape Don't Violate Civil Rights Act, Judge Rules
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that racial slurs heard on a Six Flags Magic Mountain videotape...
California's refusal to allow out-of-state attorneys to represent their clients here is the most restrictive reciprocity polic...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was the first time teacher Kris Morrella saw her students sweat. After surviving six months of competitions...
Telephone interviews often are a make-or-break situation and must be taken as seriously as an in-person interview. They usuall...
For decades, welfare recipients and applicants have relied on legal services organizations for representation in litigation ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Bruno City Attorney Jonathan Lowell has joined the San Francisco employment and labor law boutique Curiale...
SANTA ANA - An Irvine couple accused of running an international baby-selling ring pleaded not guilty to alien smuggling and t...
CALEXICO - At times, the throat-searing, eye-tearing stench from the New River is so strong that agents can smell it at the Bo...
INDIO - A grandfather has agreed to stop fighting for custody of the 10-year-old child that his gay son and his son's partner ...
LOS ANGELES - A computer technician who claims Kaiser Foundation Hospitals violated his civil rights by refusing to hire him b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two weeks after shutting down their estate, trust and probate practice, Charlotte Ito and Mark Johnson are sta...
SACRAMENTO - California's budget woes could require the judicial branch to cut some important programs and defer others, Chief...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali grappled Monday with whether to block an accounting change imposed by sta...
LOS ANGELES - Timothy McVeigh, shake hands with Winnie the Pooh. It may surprise you to learn that convicted Oklahoma City bom...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Supreme Court's medical marijuana decision doesn't directly affect California's Proposition 215, prosecuto...
Among actions announced Monday, May 14, 2001 by the justices were:
Pillsbury Winthrop has received the Corporations that Make a Difference Award 2001 from the International Women's Forum. The a...
San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has been lauded by the American Cancer Society and the San Francisco AIDS Walk ...
Students and powerful lawyers make strange bedfellows. But in the Century Plaza Hotel's massive, candlelit Los Angeles Ballroo...
Firm Watch
Morrison & Foerster: Litigator Takes Orange County Helm, Another Hams It Up In San Francisco
By Karen Coleman
The Irvine office of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster named a new managing partner May 1. Litigator Sterling Brennan to...
Firm Watch
Foley & Lardner: Los Angeles Partner Takes Two-State Management Job
By Karen Coleman
Foley & Lardner labor and employment partner Rick Albert became managing partner of both the Los Angeles and Denver office...
Mergers & Acquisitions
King & Spalding: Security Shop Tightens its Defenses With Network Ice
By Victoria Newman
Atlanta's Internet Security Systems Inc. has agreed to buy San Mateo's privately held Network ICE Corp. The stock deal is wort...
Firm Watch
Squire Sanders: Columbus Partner Opts For Palo Alto Relocation
By Karen Coleman
Squire Sanders & Dempsey, best known in California as the firm that acquired most of San Francisco's bankrupt Graham &...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin: Second Site, New Partner Boost San Diego Practice
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has added a fifth toe to its statewide footprint. The 300-plus lawyer firm ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wilson Sonsini: Software Corporation Simplex Makes its IPO
By Victoria Newman
Sunnyvale Simplex Solutions Inc. went public May 2 with an initial public offering worth $48 million. Credit Suisse First Bost...
John Newell likes taking a client's idea and making it happen. A partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Miller Nash: Evineyard Stocks Cellar With Web-Sites Purchase
By Victoria Newman
Portland, Ore.'s eVineyard has bought the Wine.com and Wineshopper.com Web sites from Menlo Park's Sand Hill Capital. The valu...
Energy Law
City Might Have to Foot the Bill For Bankrupt Electric Company
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - Officials from the city of Los Angeles' public utility told the City Council Friday that the $180 million Pacifi...