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Investments


Wilson Sonsini Leads TeleNav IPO

May 18, 2010
By Jill Redhage

An all-Palo Alto team of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lawyers handled the initial public offering of TeleNav Inc., a S...


Criminal


Life Sentence for Teens' Murders

May 18, 2010
By Pat Broderick

John Albert Gardner III - following an emotional outpouring by the parents of his young victims - was sentenced May 14 to lif...


Personal Injury & Torts


LAPD Sued Over Fatal Crash

May 18, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

The family of a 25-year-old UC Santa Barbara student who died after her car was struck by a Los Angeles Police car speeding wi...


Government


Keker Steps in to Help S.F. D.A.

May 18, 2010
By Dhyana Levey

John W. Keker, founding partner of Keker & Van Nest and former president of the San Francisco Police Commission, has stepp...


Judges and Judiciary


O.C. Bar Association Releases Ratings

May 18, 2010
By Don Debenedictisn

The Orange County Bar Association found that a deputy district attorney running in one of two contested judicial races is only...


Government


Courts Largely Escape Budget Scalpel

May 18, 2010
By Greg Kanen

California's courts largely escaped Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's scalpel in his revision of the 2010-11 state budget released ...


Intellectual Property


MGA Takes Another Hit in Bratz Doll Fight

May 18, 2010
By Jason W. Armstrong

A federal judge late Thursday denied bids by Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment to dismiss most of Mattel's claims against t...


Intellectual Property


Federal Circuit to Rehear TiVo Case

May 18, 2010
By Craig Anderson

A federal appeals court decided Friday to rethink a major contempt finding that threatened to award more than $300 million as ...


Intellectual Property


Morgan Lewis Fighting Fraud Case

May 18, 2010
By Craig Anderson

Attorneys defending Morgan, Lewis & Bockius against a fraud claim by a former client for its handling of a patent applicat...


Law Practice


Emotions High in Heller Bankruptcy

May 18, 2010
By Jill Redhage

In the most tense hearing yet held in the Heller Ehrman bankruptcy since it was filed in December 2008, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge ...


Entertainment & Sports


DC Sues Lawyer for Comic Artist's Heirs

May 18, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

A lawyer representing the heirs of a Superman co-creator in their efforts to regain a portion of the copyrights to it allegedl...


Law Practice


Teams Banking on Failed Banks

May 18, 2010
By Anna Scott

Law firms are banking on failing banks. With financial institutions still struggling with deteriorating loans, some firms hav...


Corporate


China's Business Temperature

May 18, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

China's focus is turning away from exports and inwards towards it own consumer markets, writes James Wong of Chinney Capital. ...


Perspective


The California Supreme Court has made yet another exception for permitting judicial review of employment arbitration decisions...


Technology & Science


High Court to Consider Video Game Violence

May 18, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Is it possible that the Supreme Court might finally adopt a variable standard for violence as it pertains to minors? Ashley Li...


Commercial Law


Privacy in a Growing Online Consumer World

May 18, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Jordan Gimbel of Jones Day discusses two draft bills that aim to radically redefine the rules of what remains private in a gro...


Technology & Science


Managing Risk in Technology Licensing

May 18, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

For technology licensors, the cost of determining whether the software, or some business method, infringes any issued patents ...


Government


Dondi Van Horn is trying to hold someone accountable for the death of her newborn son, who died of an infection because Van Ho...


Product Liability


Lawyers From California Dominate Toyota Cases

May 18, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

The alliance led by San Francisco's Elizabeth J. Cabraser and Newport Beach's Mark P. Robinson Jr. was the big winner in the r...


Community News


May 17, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

The Daily Journal honored California's leading women litigators at a reception Wednesday night in Beverly Hills. The newspaper...


Law Practice


On the Move

May 17, 2010
By Anna Scott

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...


Judicial Profile


Nora M. Manella

May 17, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

Nora Manella, a high-profile veteran of Los Angeles' legal community, pulls no punches in discussing her path to the state app...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Power Struggle Roils Cancer Center

May 15, 2010
By Evan George

Beneath the prestige and life-saving treatments, a no-holds barred power struggle has rattled City of Hope - and the feud coul...


Judicial Profile


Derek G. Johnson

May 15, 2010
By Pat Alston

Newport Beach Judge Derek G. Johnson's background as high school and college athlete informs his judicial style.


Personal Injury & Torts


Asbestos Judge Suspends Proposal

May 15, 2010
By Dhayna Levey

Both asbestos plaintiffs' and defense lawyers Thursday argued against a San Francisco Superior Court judge's proposal to requi...


Labor/Employment


LAUSD Must Stop Teacher Layoffs

May 15, 2010
By Cat Ho

Los Angeles Unified School District must stop teacher layoffs at three middle schools serving mostly low-income students, a Lo...


Entertainment & Sports


MGM Gets Credit Relief

May 15, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

Debt-burdened movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced Thursday that its creditors have agreed to extend a forbearance perio...


California Courts of Appeal


Prosecutors to Retry Man for Murder

May 15, 2010
By Jason W. Armstrong

Six months after an appellate court overturned his second-degree murder conviction, Riverside prosecutors said Wednesday they ...


Intellectual Property


Apple Patent Case Stays in Texas

May 15, 2010
By Craig Anderson

A federal appeals court has ruled that Apple Inc. and several other companies must defend an infringement lawsuit in the plain...


Product Liability


Home Genetic Tests May Need FDA Approval

May 15, 2010
By Mandy Jacksonn

Ever wonder how likely you are to get cancer? Or perhaps you are worried about passing on heart disease to your children? Thi...