Here is a list of the top 10 deals from July involving California attorneys or companies, according to industry sources and F...
Intellectual Property
Judge Overrules Jury's $1.5 Billion Award Against Microsoft
By Craig Anderson
WEB EXCLUSIVE - A San Diego federal judge tossed out a jury's $1.5 billion award against Microsoft Corp., ruling Monday that t...
The mouse has made friends with the penguin. At least in cyberspace. Walt Disney Co. agreed to acquire Club Penguin, a fast-gr...
Forum Column - By Maya Harris - One Berkeley school is demonstrating that this year's Supreme Court decision hasn't ended raci...
Judges and Judiciary
Ruling Finds Riverside Judge Not Guilty of Bias Toward DA
By Jim Adamekn
Riverside County's district attorney was wrong to accuse a judge of bias against him and should not have barred the judge from...
Litigation
Plaintiffs Who Faked Cancer Claims Tossed From Chevron Case
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge says he feels like "a pawn" in an international scheme against Chevron Corp., following revela...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Upholds Sites to Swap Votes
By John Roemer
It's been seven years since Ralph Nader came up 97 percent short of winning the presidency, but the highest court in the West ...
Judge Jonathan B. Conklin may work in a tiny, subterranean space, but colleagues say he makes it a pleasant environment. ...
McGeorge School of Law professor J. Clark Kelso has guided the governor's information technology initiatives over the last fiv...
Government
Friends of the Court Don't Pose Conflict for High-Court Justices
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - High-tech companies have practically littered the California Supreme Court with amicus briefs on behalf of Gen...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge tentatively acquitted civil-rights attorney Stephen G. Yagman on four counts of money laundering...
Forum Column - By Pamela Hartman - ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Nations' Rates of Private Gun Ownership Do Not Correlate to Rates of Murder
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Don B. Kates and Carol Hehmeyer - European public policy is proving that banning firearms is the best way...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - As San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy was conducting a "s...
Focus Column - By Alana Hoffman and Marc Poster - California courts are searching for the right balance in deciding when couns...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Carrie N. Schneider may just be a modern Renaissance woman. In addition to prac...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - In a bid to expand the firm's private equity buyout capabilities in San Francisco, Morri...
A man who blogs about his attraction to young girls was ordered Friday to stay 30 feet from all minors in California. The temp...
WASHINGTON - To some members of Congress, the tussle with the White House over executive privilege is nothing new. They've se...
SAN FRANCISCO - Would a loss for the government in the nation's first criminal backdating trial doom future indictments of oth...
Disbarments, Resignations and Suspensions
On the Move
One of the smartest men Jeffrey Penney ever met showed him a method of problem solving that helped him rise as a prosecutor an...
At first, Contra Costa Judge John T. Laettner missed his active role in court as a prosecutor, but now he is enjoying being a ...
Criminal
Journalists Fight to Attend Jury Field Trip to Spector’s Home
By Jennifer Hammn
Defense attorneys in the Phil Spector murder trial are clashing with First Amendment advocates over whether journalists should...
Before entering graduate school, Imperial County Judge Raymond Cota flipped a coin to decide between education and law. ...
Law Practice
Gem Traders' Lawsuit to Regain $3 Million in Stones Starts Today
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - Several New York- and Swiss-based gem traders will go to court this morning to try to force a Los Angeles broker...
In the first auto body shop fraud case tried under a 1993 state law, a Los Angeles jury issued an injunction against Hollywood...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - A recent Orange County case gives the lie to the argument that gay marriage weakens hetero...
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - Problematic workers can be neutralized through the right combination of aggressive ma...