Accused Double Agent Indicted
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Thursday handed down a five-count indictment against accused double agent Katrina Leung, ch...
Riverside Takes Out Illegal Trash Dumpers Cars
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Rusty washing machines, tattered, stained couches, jagged plywood and rotting animal corpses are common sights in ...
He's IP, That's For Sure
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - At age 36, Boalt Hall professor Mark Lemley is already considered one of the top intellectual property law sc...
Quidachay Throws Out Most of 'Care Not Cash' Law
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Voters have no authority to reduce General Assistance payments to the city's homeless, a San Francisco judge ...
Lawyer Launches 'Legally Nanny'
By Mark Cromer
LOS ANGELES - When most people think of nannies, au pairs or in-home caretakers for the elderly or disabled, the names Kimba W...
Panel Returns Solicitation Rule to Court
By Katherine Gaidos
By Katherine Gaidos Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has changed its mind about how a religi...
Case Offers Some Clarity for Those Making, Receiving Section 998 Offers
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael A. Geibelson and Edward D. Lodgen - Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 has been around...
Augusta Policy Banning Women May Be Unlawful
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Much has been written about workplace discrimination. However, bias...
Bring System in Line With Inflation
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John P. Farrell - In 1985, Ronald Reagan was president, George Deukmejian was governor and the Berlin Wall s...
Asbestos Verdict Shakes Insurers
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A $189 million jury verdict in a Los Angeles case has shaken the insurance industry, which for the first time wi...
Students Gear Up for Mock-Trial Championship
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Megan Hendricksen grabbed her boyfriend, Kyle Harris, and shook his shoulder as she tried to talk over him. "Tha...
Panel Allows Challenge to Charity Ordinance
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has changed its mind about how a religious group can challenge a Los Angeles city ordina...
Senator: Elder Fraud Bill May See Changes
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The author of a bill that seeks protections for the elderly from financial fraud agreed during state legislative ...
Court Examines Citizenship Rule For Airport Jobs
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Calling it "irrational and senseless," civil rights lawyers Wednesday urged a federal appeals court to overturn ...
FBI Agent Indicted
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday returned a six-count indictment charging former FBI counterintelligence agent Jam...
Patent Litigator Virginia Medlen Is Killed in an Accident
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent and trademark attorney Virginia Medlen, founding partner of intellectual property boutique Medl...
Adoptions by Gay Couples Appear Safe
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday to strike down a child adoption process that has been...
It's the Big Picture That Interests Her
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Last month, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tomar Mason chaired a conference for the Association for Crimin...
Dre Case Fits Right In: Copyright + Musicologists = Instant Coma
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Rap mogul Dr. Dre is bummed out by this week's $1.5 million copyright infringement verdict against hi...
Jury Awards $51 Million in Child's Shooting
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland jury awarded $50.9 million Wednesday to a teen-age boy left quadriplegic by an accidental shooting ...
Judge Innovates in Family Court
By Peter Blumberg
SANTA CRUZ - Lots of judges dread family law. Not Samuel Stevens. He was so content during his three-year family calendar assi...
Plugging into Power
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael S. Fields - You can't fool all of the people all of the time, but there is a lot of money to be made...
Cap on Malpractice Damages Subverts Separation of Powers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jamie Court and William M. Shernoff - We cannot ignore the unprecedented attack on the American judiciary th...
Lasky Haas Announces It's Closing Shop
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Lasky, Haas & Cohler, an early offshoot of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, has gone the way o...
Public Safety Panel Hears Crime Bills
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A proposal backed by prosecutors that would have required all convicted felons to provide DNA samples for inclus...
Called Back for IP Duty
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - From the annex of a small Palo Alto law firm, Gary Reback, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent intellectua...
Marijuana-Toting Teen Can't Be Denied Probation as 'Message'
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A 17-year-old San Diego girl caught bringing more than 50 pounds of marijuana across the Mexican border cannot b...
9th Circuit Won't Rehear Appeal of Weapons Ban
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California's landmark law banning assault weapons is headed for almost certain review by the U.S. Supreme Cou...
Panel Passes Bill to Ban Secret Deals in Elder Abuse Suits
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would ban secret settlements in litigation alleging physical abuse or neglect of the elderly won a l...
Female Officers Seek $2.7 Million From Jury
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer Tuesday asked a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury to award at least $2.69 million to three female ...