Clash Between State Bar Rules and Rules of SEC Puts Attorneys in Bind
By Columnist
Focus Column - Securities Law - By Charles S. Doskow - Lawyers who practice before the Securities and Exchange Commission - an...
Fish & Richardson Lures Patent Prosecutors
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - Fish & Richardson will acquire the bulk of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's San Diego patent prosecutio...
U.S. Sentencing Commission Leader Will Relinquish Post
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Sentencing Commission is stepping down at the end of the month to devote more time to her ca...
Black Attorney, Pilot Enforced Judgments
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - Attorney and pilot, Countess Pease Jeffries lived an extraordinary life, say friends, cut short by an illness few ...
Public Defenders' Attack on Delgadillo Gives Nitpicking a Bad Name
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Sometimes a tempest in a teapot is caused by a dangerous combination of sour grapes and lamebrains. S...
Judge Worked In L.A. Courts For 32 Years
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Harry L. Hupp, who served as a federal and state judge in Los Angeles for 32 years, died late Tuesday after suff...
Federal Operation Targets Child-Sex Traffickers
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - In October, federal agents arrested an 85-year-old Garden Grove man preparing to board a plane at Los Angeles In...
Appeal Court Overturns Lab Worker's $1M Award
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying that a plaintiff's expert witness was too opinionated at trial, an appellate court Wednesday reversed a...
Harris Commits to Freeing People Wrongly Convicted
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Kamala Harris says she looks forward to working with the Innocence Project to determine whet...
Pre-Emption at Issue in Tobacco Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Wading into another of Attorney General Bill Lockyer's battles in the federal pre-emption arena, the Californi...
Insurance Firm Will Pay $20 Million
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - New York Life Insurance Co. will pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit filed by descendants of some of the 1.5 mil...
Ex-Raider Statistician Rules From Bench
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Gerald Rosenberg was no ordinary spectator at NFL Raiders football games during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...
Survey Can Help Court Decide Issues of Class 'Commonality'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Robert W. Crandall and Karyn E. Model - Plaintiffs seeking class certification in wage-and-...
Free Thinkers
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Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - If a medication existed that could safely and significantly improve your memory, would ...
Federal Judge Invalidates 14 Bar-Code Patents
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Nevada finally may have freed hundreds of companies from infringement liability by invalid...
Five Skadden Fellows Will Work in California
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - New York-based Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Tuesday announced its 2004 roster of Skadden Fellows. Fi...
Domestic Partner Pension Suit Gets OK
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The domestic partner of a former Foley & Lardner partner can proceed with a lawsuit accusing the firm of d...
City Sued Over Disabled Access
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Joining the crusade of a man who uses a wheelchair, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed suit against Mi...
Finance Rules in Question
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A state political watchdog agency said Tuesday it would review its regulations in the wake of two court decisions...
Securities Expert Worked Hard for Bar Group
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday for Los Angeles attorney Marvin Greene, a securities law expert, retir...
Plaintiffs' Lawyers Call Church's New Motion 'Delay Technique'
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyers accused Roman Catholic church officials Tuesday of trying to delay justice for alleged victi...
Justice Had Famous Wit, Passion for Helping Poor
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Justice Thomas F. Crosby Jr., a longtime 4th District Court of Appeal jurist known for his witty opinions and pass...
Two Motions Question the Capability of Marin Judge
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - A Marin County judge's apparent mental disability has prompted one lawyer to seek a new trial for a client and...
It's Never Easy
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A dying 71-year-old prison inmate, serving a life term for the shotgun slaying of his wife of 41 years, asked ...
Alameda Judge Will Try Peterson Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Less than a week after prosecutors removed a retired judge assigned to the Scott Peterson trial, a retired Alameda ...
Deaf Men Hurt in Crash Find Right Lawyer
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - In a world in which communication is key, most deaf people simply give up on the court system before they even s...
Chief Justice Urges Senators To Duck Out of Recusal Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on Monday gave a sharp back of the hand to two Democratic senators who had wr...
China Offers Benefits to Lure Research Centers to Its Shores
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Focus Column - International Law - By Stephen Nelson and Simone Yew - Multinational companies contemplating the outsourcing of...
No Returns
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Forum Column - By Stan Karas - Sometimes an odd twist of judicial reasoning that could have been ignored or revised by other c...
Chief Justice Tells Senators To Stay Out of Recusal Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on Monday gave a sharp back of the hand to two Democratic senators who had wri...