Arbitrator Orders Designer to Pay $2 Million
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - The gape-mouthed Paul Frank monkey emblazoned on tens of thousands of T-shirts and handbags may not be grinning...
Suit Over Actor's Shooting at Halloween Party Goes to Trial
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Anthony Dwain Lee was laughing, having fun at a Halloween party in Benedict Canyon with a toy gun. But Los Angel...
Lay-Off Slips Given to 190 at Brobeck
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Five days after management announced it was dissolving, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison began sending out lay...
Standards of Good Appellate Practice Are Rarely Followed
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Catherine Valerio Barrad - Much has been written on the cornerstones of good appellate pract...
PTO Fee Hike Less Onerous Than Feared By Patent Bar
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced plans Tuesday to increase the costs of procuring a patent by a...
'Visionary' Presiding Judge Has Made Many Changes
By Anne La Jeunesse
SANTA ANA - Twenty years ago, on a sunny September Saturday, Frederick P. Horn, then a Los Angeles County prosecutor, and his ...
Improving Justice South of Border
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - In Latin America, where many view the justice systems as stacked against the underdog, costumed crusaders are tea...
MoFo Lands Entertainment, Aviation Attorney
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster has recruited Irell & Manella entertainment and aviation lawyer...
Skjerven Practice Groups Start Dispersing
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISO - Partners at recently dissolved Skjerven Morrill are splitting up largely along the lines of their practice grou...
Jurors Back a Freed Rosenthal
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstered by five of the jurors who convicted him, a courtroom full of supporters and San Francisco's distric...
Killer Is Not Retarded, Jury Votes
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In the second case in the state to apply the U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the death penalty for mentally re...
Gag Order
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dilan A. Esper - In Eldred v. Ashcroft , decided on Jan. 15, the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued w...
NBA Player Sues S.F. Prosecutor for Fraud
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor has been sued in federal court for allegedly embezzling funds and defrauding a for...
Brobeck's Loss Is Others' Gain
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Within hours of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's announcement last week that it would close its doors, Calif...
Plea Deals by Aryan Brotherhood
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Six prisoners linked to the Aryan Brotherhood pleaded guilty Monday to a variety of charges, including conspi...
Many Jurists, Obliged to Pick, Leave
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - About 100 retired judges who filled trial court vacancies last year have hung up their robes, apparently reac...
Brobeck Dies in Avalanche Brought on by Rancorous Snowstorm
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The collapse of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison is an illustration of the adage, the m...
Police Arrest Pop Icon in Murder
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Phil Spector, the temperamental, reclusive Rock and Roll Hall of Fame record producer, was arrested Monday in A...
IP Boutique Skjerven Morrill Calls It Quits
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Skjerven Morrill, a 62-attorney intellectual property boutique in San Jose, voted Monday to disso...
Analysis of Similarity of Marks Resists Summary Judgment
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Thane International Inc. v. Trek Bicycle Corp....
Quotes and Quotas
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego immigration lawyer Andrea Guerrero couldn't have planned a better publication date for her first bo...
Policy Follows the Holder, Not Liability, Justices Rule
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The transfer of assets and liabilities from one corporation to another does not automatically include insuran...
Job Allows Jurist to Expand His Public Service
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FONTANA - San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Michael R. Libutti had a no-frills childhood, living with his mother and two bro...
Producer Taps Simpson Lawyer
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - Robert L. Shapiro, credited with assembling the renowned "dream team" in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, is repr...
Ex-Inmate's Rights Suit OK'd
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Monday that a Nevada public defender's office may be sued for alle...
Patent Bar Apparently Won Little From PTO
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday quietly backed off plans to impose punitive fees on applicants...
Lack of Precedent Doesn't Deter Lawyer
By Stefanie Knapp
While preparing for his most recent trial, attorney Gary Barr had a little difficulty with his research. Barr wanted to use a ...
French Conglomerate Vivendi Cashing Out of U.S. Real Estate
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BY PETER GRANT Dow Jones Newswires LOS ANGELES - Vivendi Universal SA , the debt-ridden French media and telecommunications c...
Fulbright's L.A. Leader Ready to Move On
By Liz Valsamis
In 1989, Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski acquired Reavis & McGrath. The New York-based firm had a second office in Los ...
Orange County Bench Officers Wind Down Judgeship Careers
By Leslie Simmons
Orange County Superior Court Judges Christopher Strople and David H. Brickner are slated for retirement in February. The two ...