Large Firms
Former Drinker Biddle Partners to Pursue Complex Litigation
By Dan Schechnern
Industry Watch - By Rebecca Beyer - On the first day, Thomas M. Moore and Ronald T. Labriola unveiled Moore Labriola, a Southe...
Focus Column - By Stuart P. Meyer - Criminal prosecutions of trade-secret thefts are on the rise and could help civil cases. ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Davis Wright Increases Number of Health-Care Attorneys
By Annemarie Ruffn
Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - Three new health-care attorneys have joined Davis Wright Tremaine's Los Angeles office i...
Web Exclusive - By Craig Anderson - One of the two defendants indicted for backdating stock options at Brocade Communications ...
Industry Watch - By Bobbi Murray - Thomas J. Friel Jr., a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish, has been named head of the firm's...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - Marcus McDaniel is moving up in the world, while his rates are coming down. ...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - Ten years ago, Stacy Taylor was a client of one of DLA Piper's predecessor firms, Gray Cary ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court is taking a hard look at a death-row inmate's claim that he was framed for the 19...
LOS ANGELES - The attorney best known for representing presidential paramour Monica Lewinsky will depart the Los Angeles-based...
SANTA ANA - In a rare pre-emptive strike, attorneys for a national chain of boutiques have clobbered overtime suits by store m...
Industry Watch - By Jason Song - Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis had about 45 attorneys in its Los Angeles offi...
Industry Watch - By Max Follmer - LOS ANGELES - Staking a financial claim in the renaissance of downtown Los Angeles, Mark J....
On the Move - By Alexa Hyland
He may be new to the bench, but Los Angeles Judge Richard S. Kemalyan, wealthy in experience as a trial attorney, is anything ...
Three decades later, Brian Hartnell is reliving his brush with death at the hands of the Zodiac killer. Hartnell, a Redlands l...
Entertainment & Sports
Billionaire Brother Wins Trial in Long-Fought Sibling Rivalry
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - A billionaire who made his fortune in real estate owes nothing to his older brother, a Superior Court jury found...
Focus Column - By Robert D. "Bo" Links - In the second of a two-part series about drafting effective arbitration clauses, an a...
Forum Column - By David Aronoff - A recent anti-SLAPP decision regarding a movie about Generation Xers got it all wrong, write...
Judges and Judiciary
Far From Simple Judge Switch on Complex Litigation Court
By Donna Dominon
Web Exclusive - The controversial removal of the popular judge who runs San Francisco's complex litigation calendar is getting...
After a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Diego has found that two former Gateway Computers executives hid key informati...
SAN JOSE - A Massachusetts federal judge has tossed out a Virginia company's lawsuit claiming software used by Google Inc. tha...
A Riverside County judge was wrong to allow TV coverage of a court hearing to decide whether a three-time rapist should remain...
Employment Column - By Donald C. Potter - What is an employer supposed to do when a worker tries to run a ministry at the offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Close is not necessarily enough, at least when trying to show that federal water pollution law applies to a di...
It was a beautiful spring day on the Mendocino coast when every electrical lineman's nightmare struck Sifa Tuiaki. ...
"This article is going to be a disaster; I am far too honest," retired judge Robert Thomas said with a smile midway through an...
SAN FRANCISCO - The admonition came in no uncertain terms: Plan for a correction in the industry, and start planning now. ...
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are threatening to ban prosecutors from requesting attorney-client-privilege waivers in corporate inves...
What if the American Revolution had been averted with a handshake? ...
WASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers who support splitting up the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals no longer control Congress, b...