State, Not Federal, Law Governs Security Interests in Copyrights
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Those who provide or obtain financing based at least in part on the borr...
Council Will Vote on Predatory-Lending Rule
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council will vote today on an ordinance to protect consumers from so-called "predatory lend...
Stupidity Doesn't Equal Harassment
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - Is stupidity enough to create liability for hostile workplace sexual harassment? Un...
Mouse Gets Mugged in New Episode of 'Cartoon Lawyers Smackdown'
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Mickey Mouse suffered another major legal injury in the Winnie the Pooh royalties case this week, per...
S.F. Prosecutor Is Acquitted in Stabbing
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews was acquitted Thursday of three out of four criminal charges filed agai...
Only Online Law School Graduates Its First Class
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The nation's only entirely virtual law school sent its first class of graduates into the real world Thursday. Th...
Lawyer Was Active With John Langston Bar
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will be held Saturday for Los Angeles attorney Lair C. Franklin Jr., who specialized in crimi...
Insurance Defense Litigator Loved Nature
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Anthony D. Seine, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Veatch, Carlson, Grogan & N...
Vons Fights Back Against False-Ad, Overcharging Accusations
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For several years, state and county officials have been taking Vons grocery stores to court, claiming that the m...
Carson Falls Victim to Corruption
By Susan Mc Rae
CARSON - Call it a city cursed. Once again, suburban Carson finds itself mired in a scandal of bribery, kickbacks and extortio...
Identity Theft Tops List of Top 10 Consumer Complaints
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Local prosecutors traveled to Sacramento on Thursday to discuss their Top 10 consumer complaints and ask for the...
State, Not Federal, Law Governs Security Interests in Copyrights
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Those who provide or obtain financing based at least in part on the borr...
Medipot Haze
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The hypocrisy of conservatives when it comes to federalism is well illustrated by the Ju...
Judges Narrow 'Access' Rights Across Border
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES -An allegedly abusive father in Mexico who has visitation rights to his children cannot force his former wife to r...
Labor Department Backs Insurers on Overtime Pay for Adjusters
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurance companies just got a new boost from Uncle Sam in the oft-litigated issue of whether claims adjusters...
Intelligence Court's Shunning of Strict Secrecy Diet May Increase Paranoia
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review this week made U.S. Attorney General John Ash...
Percipient Expert Witness Testimony Law Is Undefined
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michaelbrent Collings - Project design professionals, project inspectors or former employees of...
Pillsbury Adds to White Collar Group
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has hired former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Anderson for its criminal defense practice ...
Diminishing Returns
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's surreal dog-mauling case captured the state's attention for much of last year, making media stars ...
Jewish, African-American Groups Need Each Other
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy," Jane Leavey's new book on the Dodger pitching legend, remi...
Stanford Trustee Fought for Environment
By Jenna Bordelon
LOS ANGELES - When Stanford Law School roommates Melvin Swift and Warren Christopher drove home from school in the Model A For...
Man Loses Civil Rights Suit Against Detectives
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Oscar Lee Morris, who was freed after 16 years in prison when his chief accuser issued a deathbed recantation, l...
Justices Oblige 9th and Enter Edison Suit
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A heavily lobbied California Supreme Court stepped into the middle of the energy crisis Wednesday, agreeing t...
Santa Clara Court Strikers Say They're Close to a Deal
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The union representing Santa Clara County court employees moved toward a settlement with management Wednesday in a...
Finding a Place in Your Heart for Foster Kids
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Amy Pellman & Jenny Weisz - Being a teen-ager in foster care all too often transla...
White House Gets Early Start Filling Bench
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The White House is gearing up to select five new federal trial judges in San Diego and one in Los Angeles by spr...
New Statute Adds Certification for Interlocutory Appeal to State Practice
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Donald M. Fenmore - Federal civil practice has long provided a remedy known as certificatio...
Insurance Suit Litigants Study U.S. Advisory On Overtime
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurance companies got a new boost from Uncle Sam in the oft-litigated issue of whether claims adjusters qua...
New Statute Adds Certification for Interlocutory Appeal to State Practice
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Donald M. Fenmore - Section 166.1 is a reasonably nonadversarial method of seeking prompt ap...
Trials Derail In Santa Clara as Employees Stay on Strike
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - The second day of the Santa Clara County court employees' strike was marked by chaos at the Hall of Justice, a judi...