LOS ANGELES - President Bush has proclaimed he wants Osama bin Laden "dead or alive." But experts said last week that bin Lade...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city attorney for a major metropolis must be both brilliant and humble. He must be a bulldog litigator and...
Entertainment & Sports
'Titanic' Quest for Tableware Serves Up Subplots, Time in Mexican Jail
By Garry Abrams
You want collectibles? We'll show you collectibles! Jack Cardoza's "Titanic" legal nightmare began on Sept. 28, 1998, on what ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Leo Bazile, a former Oakland City Council member and vice-mayor with a troubled political history, has resigne...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday refused to postpone the trial of Sara Jane Olson, who is accused of...
SAN FRANCISCO - There's no mistaking the biggest plank in Neil Eisenberg's platform. ...
WASHINGTON - Federal investigators doubt terrorists from the al-Qaida organization are behind a spate of allegedly anthrax-lad...
State Bar & Bar Associations
FARELLA BRAUN PARTNER WILL LEAD CONSTRUCTION FORUM
By Staff Writer
The America Bar Association has named Debora S. Ballati chair-elect of its Forum on the Construction Industry. With 5,300 memb...
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, when activists focus the nation's attention on violence against women. However, ...
Firm Watch
Sonnenschein Nath: LOS ANGELES BRANCH HIRES DUO FROM DOWNTOWN RIVAL
By Toni Vranjes
After 11 years at LeBoeuf Lamb Green & McRae, two corporate partners have walked a few blocks north on Figueroa Street to ...
The little dog looks into the camera and recites, "Yo Quiero, Taco Bell." For the last several years, television viewers could...
Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two precedential opinions that address the pre-filing inve...
Like most people, attorney Doug Cogen regularly places long-distance phone calls without giving any thought to how his calls g...
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Morgan Lewis: BLACK HILLS GETS NEW JOLT AT A PRICE OF $200 MILLION
By Columnist
Las Vegas' Black Hills Nevada, subsidiary of Black Hills Energy Capital Inc., of Rapid City, S.D., acquired Southwest Power of...
Savannah, Ga.-based Marshall House Inc., an affiliate of London's UBS Warburg, sold The Marshall House to HLC Hotels Inc., als...
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Fenwick & West: VERISIGN VENTURES INTO WORLD OF LONG DISTANCE
By Columnist
Mountain View's VeriSign Inc. has announced its intention to acquire Lacey, Wash.-based Illuminet Holdings in a transaction va...
Firm Watch
Foley & Lardner: CARDEN ASSUMES MANAGING ROLE IN CENTURY CITY OFFICE
By Toni Vranjes
Venerable health law firm Foley & Lardner has tapped Douglas L. Carden as its new managing partner in Century City. Carden...
Seyfarth Shaw will hold its 2001 West Coast Labor & Employment Law Symposium on Oct. 25. Held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, ...
When Robert Brown Jr. took over at the University of West Los Angeles, he saved it from the brink. But it still is suffering f...
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Hughes & Luce: CGI WILL OFFER TECHNOLOGY SERVICES TO FIREMAN'S FUND
By Columnist
Montreal's CGI Group Inc. has entered into a 10-year outsourcing contract with Novato-based Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., a su...
Suicide Rocks is not exactly a confidence-inspiring name. Nor is it one that would seem likely to draw many visitors. And for ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
BAR ASSOCIATION ADDS ONE TO CIVIL LITIGATION GROUP
By Staff Writer
The American Bar Association has chosen George Koelzer as the newest member of its Civil Litigation Institute. Koelzer, a part...
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Kaye Scholer: PLATINUM EQUITY EXPANDS ITS BROADBAND CAPABILITIES
By Columnist
Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity Holdings has acquired the Access Products Division and Broadband Wireless Group from ADC Tel...
Lawyers in today's high-tech world must stay on top of new methods of doing business. Case-specific information for clients on...
The Euro-American Lawyers Group, an international association of law firms, has invited Los Angeles' Friedmann O'Brien Goldber...
Firm Watch
Foran Glennon: LITIGATION BOUTIQUE OPENS WITH CALIFORNIA PRESENCE
By Toni Vranjes
Be in control of your own destiny. That's the philosophy of Matthew S. Ponzi , who recently helped found a new law firm. The y...
As the legal proceedings against Andrea Yates move forward, one would think that, from the support she has been receiving, tha...
While Gibson Dunn & Crutcher continues to espouse that it's not a Republican law firm, recent headlines tell a much differ...
Crosby Heafey Roach & May is teaming up with the University of California, Irvine, to present a two-day seminar on medical...
San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps is donating $25,641 to the American Red Cross National Relief Fund to assist t...