Wyman Bautzer Kuchel Silbert

The Orange County managing partner of a major Los Angeles law firm has defected with five other attorneys to competitor Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Irvine. The mass departure last week drained the Irvine office of Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert of 25% of its attorney staff. Thomas R.

Attorney Howard Weitzman said he and about 65 fellow lawyers plan to dissolve the 39-year-old Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert law firm and join Chicago-based Katten Muchin & Zavis. The Los Angeles lawyers will join Katten Muchin's existing, 10-attorney West Coast operation. The Chicago firm will be renamed Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman, and Weitzman will be named chairman of its national executive committee.

The prominent Los Angeles law firm of Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert has won a major victory over a group of former partners who left in 1988 and took some of the company's biggest clients with them. Retired temporary Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lester E. Olson ruled Monday that partners of Wyman Bautzer--then known as Wyman Bautzer Christensen Kuchel & Silbert--did not force out the group of 12 partners, who were led by a former colleague, Terry N. Christensen.

The prominent Los Angeles law firm of Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert has settled a two-year legal dispute with former partners who left and took some of the firm's biggest clients with them. Both sides, however, continued bickering Tuesday about how to characterize the settlement. The $2.

Attorney Howard Weitzman said he and about 65 fellow lawyers plan to dissolve the 39-year-old Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert law firm and join Chicago-based Katten Muchin & Zavis. The Los Angeles lawyers will join Katten Muchin's existing, 10-attorney West Coast operation. The Chicago firm will be renamed Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman, and Weitzman will be named chairman of its national executive committee.

The prominent Los Angeles law firm of Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert has settled a two-year legal dispute with former partners who left and took some of the firm's biggest clients with them. Both sides, however, continued bickering Tuesday about how to characterize the settlement. The $2.

U.S. District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer was accused by an attorney Monday of meeting with representatives of her former law firm and assuring them she would continue to preside over a Church of Scientology case even if the firm accepted an offer to represent the church in the suit. The accusation was made before Pfaelzer in open court by Century City attorney Joseph Yanny, who once represented Scientology in the lawsuit and is now fighting church efforts to question him.

Some things are worth fighting for. Front-row box seats behind the Dodger dugout at Dodger Stadium, for instance. And so Rosalind Wiener Wyman, a former Los Angeles City Council member and well-connected Democratic party activist, Tuesday sued her late husband's law firm, claiming that it has breached an agreement that would let her buy the box seat tickets she had used until his death in 1973.

The prominent Los Angeles law firm of Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert has won a major victory over a group of former partners who left in 1988 and took some of the company's biggest clients with them. Retired temporary Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lester E. Olson ruled Monday that partners of Wyman Bautzer--then known as Wyman Bautzer Christensen Kuchel & Silbert--did not force out the group of 12 partners, who were led by a former colleague, Terry N. Christensen.

The Orange County managing partner of a major Los Angeles law firm has defected with five other attorneys to competitor Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Irvine. The mass departure last week drained the Irvine office of Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert of 25% of its attorney staff. Thomas R.

U.S. District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer was accused by an attorney Monday of meeting with representatives of her former law firm and assuring them she would continue to preside over a Church of Scientology case even if the firm accepted an offer to represent the church in the suit. The accusation was made before Pfaelzer in open court by Century City attorney Joseph Yanny, who once represented Scientology in the lawsuit and is now fighting church efforts to question him.

Some things are worth fighting for. Front-row box seats behind the Dodger dugout at Dodger Stadium, for instance. And so Rosalind Wiener Wyman, a former Los Angeles City Council member and well-connected Democratic party activist, Tuesday sued her late husband's law firm, claiming that it has breached an agreement that would let her buy the box seat tickets she had used until his death in 1973.

Howard D. Behar, Kent S. Beyer, James F. Brenner, Mark D. Gershenson, David A. Robinson and David E. Van Iderstine have been named partners at the law firm Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert, Los Angeles.