Community News, Law Practice
Riverside district attorney’s office honors standout employees
By Laurinda Keys
Elan Zektser, who completed five trials resulting in life prison sentences last year, was named the 2017 Countywide Prosecutor...
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles celebrated the grand opening of its Loyola Social Justice Law Clinic at the school’s downtown L...
Community News
The case for treating basketball like a courtroom brief
By Matthew Blake
Nate Duncan and Danny LeRoux are conducting a grand experiment to answer the question: What if you took the logic and empirici...
Community News, Law Practice
Haight Brown marks its 80 years with 80 acts of kindness
By Justin Kloczko
Partners Denis Moriarty and Kenneth Anderson found that many of the firm’s employees were already volunteering.
Community News, Law Practice
Skadden Arps takes cyber bullying law lessons to school
By Justin Kloczko
About 10,000 Bay Area students have since participated in the interactive program.
The Orange County and Los Angeles offices of Allen Matkins held their annual holiday parties this month, hosting hundreds of S...
Community News
Sony Pictures Entertainment GC honored at Anti-Defamation League Annual Gala
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Leah Weil, general counsel for Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., received the Jurisprudence Award at the Anti-Defamation Leagu...
The law school hosted its 21st annual Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations Nov. 30-Dec. 1 at the Millennium Biltmore...
The LA Lawyers Philharmonic performed at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre Nov. 18 and raises funds for legal services.
500 alumni celebrated annual honors at the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles grand reunion.
Tax law experts tackled proposed federal reforms at a University of Southern California Gould School of Law event earlier this...
Community News
LAPA holds annual pro bono fair in San Fernando Valley
By Kibkabe Araya
The Los Angeles Paralegal Association held its 11th annual LAPA Pro Bono Fair Oct. 21 for San Fernando Valley residents at Nat...
Morrison & Foerster LLP associate Christian Andreu-von Euw has been given the firm’s 2017 Kathi Pugh Award for Pro Bono Se...
Some 500 attorneys, judges and their guests attended the 13th annual Tribute to the Champions of Justice dinner, hosted by the...
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorneys took part in the inaugural Back on My Feet Treadmill Challenge on Oct. 25 in downtown...
Stakeholders moved dirt on the site of UC Hastings College of the Law’s forthcoming academic village.
Stakeholders gathered in La Jolla to discuss California coastal law.
Community News
San Fernando Valley Bar Association installs new officers
By Shane Nelson
Alan E. Kassan took over as president of the SFVBA Oct. 19.
Community News
Samford University wins National Civil Trial Competition
By Shane Nelson
Students from Samford University Cumberland School of Law outlasted competitors from 16 other schools to claim the national ci...
California Supreme Court associate justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar answered questions at a lunchtime event Tuesday at Loyol...
The Loyola Law School, Los Angeles hosted the sixth annual U.S.-China Intellectual Property Summit Oct. 13, providing a forum ...
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Rockers join Loyola law professors for First Amendment panel
By Shane Nelson
Rock band The Slants took part in a recent First Amendment panel discussion at Loyola Law School.
The Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Inc. held their 42nd Annual Installation and Awards Dinner late last month.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton associate Michaela Goldstein won this year’s Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Comp...
A Steptoe & Johnson LLP trio completed this year’s Ketchum-Downtown YMCA Stair Climb for Los Angeles fundraiser.
A group of Allen Matkins attorneys and staffers raced up 75 floors of stairs for the YMCA earlier this month.
Community News, Government
Democratic trial attorneys fund effort to unseat Rohrbacher
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Democratic trial attorneys — and former California attorney general Bill Lockyer — are lining up behind a former Republican wh...
Members of Greenberg Traurig LLP’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices performed June 14 as the rock band ‘Attractive Nui...