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Criminal


Judge Grants Bail to Ex-Cop in Pellicano Case

Apr. 11, 2009
By Susan Mcraen

A former Los Angeles police sergeant convicted alongside ex-Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano could be released from jai...


Verdicts


Hospital Settles $2.7 Million Shareholders Dispute

Apr. 11, 2009
By Don Debenedictisn

Ending nearly two years of litigation, Orange County hospital owner and operator Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc. has settl...


Law Practice


Clinton to Speak at Legal Fundraiser

Apr. 11, 2009
By Sara Randazzon

The event scheduled for May 1 at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and hosted by Southern California chapter of th...


Law Practice


New Lawyers Find Work in Public Service

Apr. 11, 2009
By Amanda Becker

Nearly a year after receiving offers of employment, hundreds of law students who planned on starting lucrative careers at big ...


Perspective


Law and Culture Collide at the Border

Apr. 11, 2009
By Sara Libbyn

Paul Levine brings complex characters and an insider view of the legal system to his novel "Illegal," writes author Elaine Eli...


Perspective


Alternate Routes

Apr. 10, 2009
By Sara Libbyn

While payroll reductions have obvious attractions, they can be fraught with potential long-term pitfalls, advise Lonny M. Zilb...


Corporate Counsel


No Slugger, But Good Fit For Oakland A's

Apr. 10, 2009
By Rebecca Beyer

Oakland Athletics General Counsel Steven Johnston talks about his love for baseball and how the A's do so much with one of the...


Judicial Profile


Triumph and Tragedy

Apr. 10, 2009
By John Roemer

Days after being elected a court commissioner, Randolph E. Heubach witnessed the murder of his law partner by a convicted ars...


Mulji Patel, who injured his back while working at a Rockwell plant nearly three decades ago, was so frustrated he threatened ...


Large Firms


Townsend to Lay Off Attorneys, Staff

Apr. 10, 2009
By Amelia Hansenn

Intellectual property lawyers are feeling the chill of the recession. On Wednesday, San Francisco-based firm Townsend and Town...


Criminal


Woman Admits Faking Judges' Signatures

Apr. 10, 2009
By Susan Mcraen

A one-time baggage screener at Los Angeles International Airport has admitted to forging two federal judges' signature on phon...


Public Interest


Attorneys, judges and others are helping to start clinics in the Northern District of California to advise the growing numbers...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Beyond Hall Monitors

Apr. 10, 2009
By Sara Libbyn

Countless rulings have found that schools have heightened duty to take all reasonable steps to protect students from harm, wri...


Perspective


You might think that after 23 years, we would be done listing the chemicals "known" to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity -...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Bakersfield's Crucible Moment

Apr. 10, 2009
By Sara Libbyn

Mike Willemsen reviews the documentary "Witch Hunt," which explores prosecutors run amok and small town hysteria. ...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


In baseball and mediation, the opposing forces, competing obligations and weapons of combat all converge at home plate, writes...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


O.C. Hospital Settles Patient Dumping Case

Apr. 10, 2009
By Evan George

Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said Wednesday that College Hospital in Costa Mesa had agreed to a settlement, an i...


California Supreme Court


State Justices Analyze Voter Intent in Prop. 64

Apr. 10, 2009
By Alexia Garamfalvin

Figuring out what the voters intended when passing ballot measures isn't always easy, especially when those voters are weighin...


Corporate Counsel


Santiago "Sam" Fernandez joined the Los Angeles Dodgers as their general counsel in 1984 after a year spent "on loan" with the...


Intellectual Property


Mircea Achiriloaie, an attorney with the Thousand Oaks-based plant biotech company Ceres Inc., warns that proposed reforms to ...


Intellectual Property


75 Leading Litigators

Apr. 9, 2009
By Aris Davoudiann

Our annual roundup of the best intellectual property litigators based in California. ...


Intellectual Property


Documenting Piracy

Apr. 9, 2009
By Pat Broderick

Staff writer Pat Broderick tracks down an intrepid law school professor who is chasing IP pirates all over the globe. ...


Intellectual Property


Yahoo's chief IP counsel, Jeanine Hayes, says courts are in desperate need of new guidelines on how to handle litigation over ...


Intellectual Property


Leading IP Lawyers

Apr. 9, 2009
By Sara Randazzon

The Daily Journal's 2009 roundup of the top IP litigators and top IP portfolio managers in California. Plus, we take a look at...


Judges and Judiciary


The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted against cutting benefits for judges, but approved efforts to s...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A Prescription for Change?

Apr. 9, 2009
By Sara Libbyn

Congress is considering multiple bills directed at streamlining the pathway for generic biologic drugs, write Knobbe Martens a...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Nora Quinn took on a trial and chemo at the same time - and ended up fighting a third battle against the insurance company tha...


Securities


Ex-Countrywide CEO Mozilo Still On Hook

Apr. 9, 2009
By Gabe Friedmann

A federal judge dismissed all insider trading allegations against former Countrywide Financial Corp. executives except for for...


Perspective


Keeping Innovation Inside the Box

Apr. 9, 2009
By Sara Libbyn

After In re Ferguson, thinking outside the box can only be patented when it fits squarely in the decision's tight parameters, ...


California Supreme Court


Upholding a $1 billion dollar class action against Bank of America could do more harm than good, several California Supreme Co...