The Central City Association, a Los Angeles organization that promotes the business of the city, named John Whitaker its 2002 ...
David Marion laces up his sneakers as a new member of the board of directors of the Greater San Diego Inner-City Games. The gr...
Chiron Corp. acquired Matrix Pharmaceutical Inc. through its subsidiary, Manon Acquisition Corp. The cash deal is worth $61 mi...
ViroLogic Inc. sold convertible stock for $10 million. The deal was announced March 26. The investors included SDS Merchant Fu...
Firm Watch
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart: THREE LAWYERS DEFECT TO NIXON AND SONNENSCHEIN
By Staff Writer
Three lawyers, one a former PG&E general counsel, have left Kirkpatrick & Lockhart 's 2-year-old San Francisco office,...
The Southern California Chapter of the IndUS Entrepreneurs has named Shibir Grewal, partner at Newport Beach-based Stradling Y...
LOS ANGELES - When police Chief Bernard Parks walks into City Council chambers Tuesday for a high-stakes public hearing on his...
SAN FRANCISCO - In taking over the defense of Marjorie Knoller, appellate specialist Dennis Riordan has signaled that decision...
SAN FRANCISCO - Like Learned Hand, who spent much of his 50 years on the bench stranded in the 2nd Circuit, Judge Alex Kozinsk...
SAN FRANCISCO - Medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby cannot fight his misdemeanor drug convictions from Canada because fugit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Speakers at last month's Prop. 65 News conference in San Diego were thrilled when Napa attorney Mark Pollock s...
Intellectual Property
Information Material to Patentability Must Be Disclosed
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Neil Maloney - Rule 56, 37 C.F.R. Section 1.56, imposes on each individual associated with the filing and pr...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Deputy District Attorney Charles Q. Clay III, Assistant City Attorney Mary Strobel...
Among real estate attorneys, skyscrapers often are referred to as trophy buildings. With their massive height and stylish arc...
Criminal
Court Guard Tried to Sway Jury, Officials Say
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A security guard at the Rancho Cucamonga courthouse Thursday told jurors in a hallway during a break in del...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner acted within his power when he held an attorney in contempt of court a...
SAN FRANCISCO - This city's waterfront is getting a makeover thanks in large part to a quirky federal tax law known as the His...
SANTA ANA - Two Orange County brothers have sued the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a priest who they claim molested them on c...
Forum Column - By Rian W. Jones - Gloria Allred and R. Tomas Olmos' article titled "Captive Labor Force: Refusing Back Pay For...
LOS ANGELES - Move over, Fabio. Take a back seat, Tyson Beckford. On Thursday, some of the movers and shakers of Los Angeles' ...
LOS ANGELES - In an aftershock to the firm's recent layoffs and management change, San Jose's Skjerven Morrill has decided to ...
Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - I wait for my son as he stands in line after school to get his daily behavior report, along wi...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In the aftermath of its stunning victory in the 1967 Six Day War, Israel captured the Sin...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Is Not as Confidential or as Voluntary as Attorneys Might Think
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Mark J. Divelbiss - Mediation has been used with increasing frequency over the last 10 years, especially in ...
The California Supreme Court on Feb. 4, 2002, issued its decision in Hartwell Corp. v. Superior Court (Santamaria). Thi...
LOS ANGELES - Some of the biggest names in Los Angeles law will model the latest styles in men's attire at a fund-raiser on Th...
Although a physician's misdiagnosis allegedly led to a patient suffering a stroke, the defense attorney called that "Monday mo...
The role of the vocational expert in the forensic arena is to render an expert opinion about a particular individual's establi...
Every year, insurance companies in the United States spend billions of dollars defending lawsuits against their insureds throu...
Round Table - Steven G. Mehta recently hosted a round-table discussion exploring the most compelling abuses of the discovery p...