Columbus, Ohio-based Sterling Commerce Inc., which provides services to Internet businesses, has sold its XcelleNet division t...
Constitutional Law Pressing Protection High Court Upholds Reporter Freedoms and Privileges The court ruled that instead of ban...
If you want to be a better trial lawyer, take ballet, Cynthia Plevin , the first woman to practice and make partner at Sedgwic...
Bail Upped For Attorney SANTA ANA - John Franklyn Watkins, one of two Glendora lawyers charged with conspiring to obstruct jus...
More Berkeley Than Brentwood When Sara Jane Olson's bomb-conspiracy trial commences sometime in the next few months, it will u...
Entertainment & Sports
9th Circuit Spikes Purported Co-Authors Malcolm X Claim
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Clarifying the definition of "author" in joint works, a federal appeals court has rejected the copyright and c...
Patent prosecutor J.D. Harriman , head of the intellectual property group at Los Angeles-based Hecker & Harriman , has jo...
Alan Hodes , a former partner at Limbach & Limbach in San Jose, has joined McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in Palo ...
Pittsburgh's Kirkpatrick & Lockhart has acquired Freshman, Marantz, Orlanski, Cooper & Klein , a 17-attorney, general...
Judges and Judiciary
Peers Remember Keefe as Fair, Caring Jurist
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert H. Keefe, remembered by colleagues as a firm and fair jurist and a cari...
Land use attorney William R. Devine has joined the Costa Mesa office of San Francisco-based Pillsbury Madison & Sutro as ...
The largest labor law firm, Littler Mendelson , with 380 attorneys, has opened an office in Columbus, Ohio. James Ferber , fo...
Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser of Palo Alto has elevated four new partners: M. Scott Donahey, Jill E. Fishbein, James R...
In a tentative setback for Sara Jane Olson's defense, the trial judge said Friday he does not believe he has authority to appr...
An example of a county that provides minor's counsel is Los Angeles, which has the largest number of dependency cases in the n...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Oil Giants Merger May Turn On Judges Market Definition
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission's attempt in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to block BP Amoco's acquisition of...
For many California counties, particularly the smaller ones, money is the obstacle to providing attorneys for children in juve...
If you're a child, there is probably nothing more frightening than being removed from your home and family - especially if it...
FORUM Converting abandoned railroad lines into recreational trails must have seemed like a good idea at the time. ...
Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti, seeking a third term in office in next month's primary, has defeated challengers S...
By Mark Blumberg - Intellectual property attorney Richard L. Stone landed one of the biggest cases of his career after partici...
Walter Gieselman, a retired sole practitioner and community leader has died after a brief illness. He was 91. The former Burba...
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky announced Thursday the county has received a check for $79.3 million as its firs...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the largest Medicare fraud settlement in the nursing home industry, Beverly Enterprises Inc., agreed Thurs...
Ally McBeal By Sherry Swieca Does anyone ever work around here? I'm talking about not just in the firm Cage & Fish, but al...
DICTA Taking sweet, 9-year-old Darcie away from her paranoid mom was a legal no-brainer on this week's 'Judging Amy.' Judging ...
SAN DIEGO - Patting the nostrils of a life-size Fiberglas horse, defense attorney Mario G. Conte said he was reminded of the ...