Murder-Case Defense Will Argue AG Has Wrong Man
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - In a sensational murder trial scheduled to open here today, defense attorneys contend prosecutors have the wrong m...
Of Mice and Mars
By Katherine Gaidos
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - What is in a name? A method, or a technology? Everything, in today's economy. Tales of patented ...
Jurist Halts Decertifying of School
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - Though he voiced concern that his ruling only delays the inevitable, a federal judge on Friday blocked the America...
Longtime Prosecutor Misses Action
By Xenia Kobylarz
TULARE - Asked during a recent interview why he became a lawyer, Tulare Superior Court Judge Ronn Couillard was quick to reply...
Defendants Deserve Chance to Redact Probation Reports
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Criminal defendants who want to block media access to their probation reports more than 60 days after their convict...
The Push for Primacy
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A century and a half after the Civil War, the nation's courts are still consumed by spirited turf battles over...
U.S. Gives Detainees More Privacy
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Responding to widespread criticism, the Pentagon on Friday announced that the government could monitor only under...
Judge, Lawyer Bid Farewell to 'Old Friend'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An antitrust case alleging oil price-fixing in American Samoa that began while the Vietnam War still raged and...
Appeal Fails in Name-Calling Case
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Sharon Claire Brooks, the divorce lawyer who called a family law judge a rat during her own marital breakup, m...
Workers Sue Farms Over Pesticide
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of farm employees and their families are suing a large Kern County farm operation, claiming that the im...
Domain-Dispute Panels Favor Owners of Trademarked Names
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Cary Schatz - Disputes over rights to Internet domain names are on the rise. The mos...
Strut Your Stuff Strategically, Even at Your Own Law Firm
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - Every lawyer knows how to do some level of self-marketing. In order for lawyers t...
People Are Mad as Hell About Use of Eminent Domain
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Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It was bound to happen - only a question of when and where violence would erupt in respo...
Here Awards, There Awards, Everywhere Awards at ABA Meeting
By Don De Benedictis
ABA Notebook - By Don DeBenedictis - SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Every American Bar Association meeting is replete with awards, which...
Court Rejects EBay Libel Lawsuit
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - The editor of a Los Angeles newspaper, whom an eBay user branded "dishonest" in a feedback profile, cannot sue eBa...
Deputy AG Loved Notre Dame, Playing Sports
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Rescuers have recovered the body of Christopher C. Foley, a retired deputy state attorney general who died durin...
Paralegal's Suit Alleges Sex Harassment
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A former paralegal for San Francisco attorney Waukeen McCoy testified Thursday that McCoy asked him to hug, cu...
Democrats Pepper 9th Circuit Nominee With Questions
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - William Myers III, the president's latest nominee for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, faced repe...
Appeal Court Told to Stop Discouraging Oral Arguments
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court scolded appellate justices in Riverside Thursday for turning a deaf ear to lawyer...
Gay Man Fights Military Demand for Schooling Payback
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a gay former Air Force doctor hope to chip away at the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy o...
Court Prevents Closing of Facility for Disabled
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County cannot make a rehabilitation facility for disabled people bear the brunt of painful budget cu...
Premiere Real Estate Firm Accused Of Negligence
By Robert Selna
OAKLAND - The legendary real property law firm Miller Starr & Regalia defended itself Thursday in opening statements again...
Ex-Vietnam Combat Nurse Serves on Appeals Bench
By Katherine Gaidos
SANTA ANA - Justice Eileen C. Moore didn't speak publicly about her experiences as a combat nurse in Vietnam until the late 19...
The Fight to Cite
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers may cite sonnets by Shakespeare or scenes from Spielberg for their persuasive value, but they can't ci...
Court Insists on Full Rights Of Marriage for Gay Couples
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Wednesday that only full marriage rights for gay couples - not ci...
County May Be Sued for Injury From Riding Scooter
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Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In 1855, the state Supreme Court, in one of its most laconic opinions ever,...
Case Adds Uncertainty About Effect Of 'Time Is of the Essence' Clauses
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Angele Solano - Contracts for real-estate purchase and sales transactions routinely include ...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - An obscure provision of the Los Angeles City Charter is causing enormous controversy and...
Akin Gump Gets a Pair of Veterans for Its S.F. Office
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a 950-lawyer Dallas firm, has landed two veteran litigation partners fr...
Ex-BASF Director Takes on Diversity, Pro Bono Work
By Erik Cummins
Reporter's Notebook - By Erik Cummins - SAN FRANCISCO - Teveia Barnes looked at a lot of job offers when she left the Bar Asso...