LOS ANGELES - The movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" had a cinematic remake, and now a lawsuit over trademark rights to the legendary ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Safe Neighborhoods Initiative Would Start Where Three-Strikes Left Off
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By George Runner - Increases in murder, robbery and methamphetamine use require bold new approaches in statewid...
Firm Watch
Goodwin Procter Torts Expert Will Pursue Wining and Dining in Retirement
By Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Edward S. Weltman, chair of Goodwin Procter's liability and mass torts practice and self-described "food and w...
RIVERSIDE - A specially appointed judicial panel has decided that a Riverside judge correctly dismissed two criminal cases ear...
Focus Column - By Sergio D. Kopelev - Attempting to be comprehensive in electronic discovery can often lead to mountains of in...
A federal judge in San Francisco has disqualified Howrey from representing a major clothing retailer in a trademark case in hi...
WASHINGTON - The first substantial increase in federal funding for legal services in more than a decade is caught up in a poli...
California's governor has broad leeway to deny parole to murderers, thanks in part to a 2002 ruling by the state Supreme Court...
SANTA ANA - When Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona goes on trial for corruption and witness tampering, his defense is certain ...
Judge Michael L. Duffy is continually praised for his kindness, - but he doesn't hesitate to dole out lengthy sentences for he...
Forum Column - By Kathay Feng - Anecdotes of horse trading among state legislators looking to avoid tough elections or minorit...
Judge Kathleen M. Banke swapped an hourlong office commute for a breezy drive through the vineyards - and found that being a ...
Lawsuits filed by Attorney General Jerry Brown and by advocacy groups have forced cities to look more closely at environmental...
Litigation
Supreme Court Hears Suit Over Prisoner's $177 in Lost Property
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - An unlikely dispute between a federal prisoner and the U.S. government over $177 made it to the U.S. Supreme Cour...
LOS ANGELES - William S. Lerach, who until recently managed the country's largest securities class-action law firm, entered a ...
Law Practice
Chevron Employee Awarded $5.5 Million for Retaliation Firing
By David Houstonn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury on Monday held Chevron Corp. liable for illegally retaliating against and firing a female engin...
Focus Column - By Carlton A. Varner - A recent 9th Circuit ruling changes how bundling multiple products for a discount is vie...
The State Bar has placed a Yolo County civil litigator on a year of probation for letting a death penalty appeal drag on for m...
Forum Column - By Maxwell M. Blecher and David W. Kesselman - Major media companies' attempts to keep consumers from being abl...
SANTA ANA - A federal judge won't let law firm Irell & Manella out of a $150 million malpractice suit just yet, but he may...
LOS ANGELES - Peter Gerber thought his kidney transplant would give him a new lease on life. But after the successful transpla...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Justices Reject Challenge to Actress's Ownership of Painting
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge by heirs of a German-Jewish art collector who were trying t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wang Xiaoning's days drag on in Beijing's Municipal Prison No. 2, where his lawyers say he goes for weeks, som...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has offered contradictory responses when asked for the identities of people he relies on to help hi...
WASHINGTON - Extending the long-running legal battle over the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Mo...
After a five-year effort, a Los Angeles lawyer has reached a settlement with the state that gives people who appear on a forme...
Judge Sandra L. McLean, a onetime Army nurse, thinks treatment for drug addiction is the surest way to rehabilitate criminals....
John Danforth is leaving the legal team at Rambus Inc. after winning some big patent litigation battles and charting strategy ...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Arter & Hadden was saved from a legal-malpractice claim in September in a significant...
Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - The Century City office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis has entered into ...