Few relationships are as delicate and as susceptible to conflicts of interest as the relationship among the liability insuranc...
Many states are entertaining legislation changing the rules that govern jury deliberations, jury instructions and the entire p...
When the U.S. Supreme Court decided The Florida Star v. BJF , 491 U.S. 524 (1989), many legal commentators declared the...
In response to burgeoning caseloads, the Legislature has begun a dramatic shift in the nature of appellate review. More and mo...
California's nursing homes are an industry under siege by state and federal regulators, struggling to receive fair compensatio...
In 1974, Congress passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act in order to protect employee pensions from corporations a...
On April 18, 2001, three justices of the 5th District Court of Appeal, in the unpublished opinion Perry v. Pima-Gro Systems...
After working for 25 years in litigation, my transition to mediation practice has highlighted some of the mistakes litigators ...
Mark Asdourian left the New York subway's F train to fight for corporate honesty in his own Irvine law firm. ...
SAN DIEGO - In a decision that could affect how other cities use red-light traffic cameras, a judge Tuesday ruled that photogr...
Honesty still counts for something in corporate America. And WMC Mortgage Corp. took that to the bank in a case involving cons...
Underestimating the intelligence of the American people may be profitable, but it causes pain. And fear. ...
Bad facts may make bad law. But in a recent case on victim restitution, bad law was used to make a good decision. In People...
California courts carefully must balance their need for speed with their fight for right; currently, the balance us off-kilter...
SACRAMENTO - Law firms that work for the state would have to make a good-faith effort to provide 30 hours of pro bono services...
LOS ANGELES - A court appearance for a Malibu attorney arrested last week on charges of grand theft took a strange turn Tuesda...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland attorney who claims she was arrested unlawfully by San Francisco police during a 1996 animal rights...
LOS ANGELES - As Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp.'s Chief Executive Officers Carly Fiorina and Michael Capella an...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Saturday for Orland Keith Snyder, a former Western State University College o...
SAN FRANCISCO - The controversy over racial profiling landed before the California Supreme Court on Tuesday in a case that tes...
SAN JOSE - James McManis is in his element. Tall, trim and well-tailored in a gray suit with a white collar and matching handk...
LOS ANGELES - Escorted by an evidence custodian, Deputy District Attorney Lisa Kahn and two defense attorneys recently toured ...
SACRAMENTO - Four statutory schemes with affirmative-action-style elements were struck down by a state appeal court Tuesday be...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not every day that an 18-year-old takes a $77 ticket for jaywalking to the U.S. Supreme Court, but if you...
LOS ANGELES - Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch has added tax and business attorney Michael J. Changaris to its growing...
Every California litigator is well aware that on occasion trial courts make mistakes. Indeed, the California Courts of Appeal ...
Firm Watch
Ropers Majeski: SOLE PRACTITIONER TRADES HIS SHINGLE FOR GROUP LIFE
By Tanya Rothman
Ellis G. Wasson joined the Los Angeles office of Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley as partner on Aug. 1, bringing along experi...
In his jeremiad against the tort system titled "Excessive Verdicts Affect Both 'Real People' and 'the Powerful'" (Forum, Aug. ...
That's the way one recent headline ran. Other newspapers ran similar types. Paul Caruso was indeed legendary. I know. I worked...
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Allen Matkins: MULTILINK OFFERS 8 MILLION SHARES IN PUBLIC OFFERING
By Tanya Rothman
Somerset, N.J.-based Multilink Technologies raised $83 million in gross proceeds during its recent initial public offering of ...