Discipline
Have a Dead Client? Be Careful With Attorney-Client Privilege
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Terence S. Nunan - Most attorneys who deal with the rules of evidence think they have a good intuitive under...
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker announced the opening of a Chicago office. Steve Catlett and Rick Chesley joined the Ch...
Corporate
Tide Turning Against Privilege Waivers for Prosecutors in Corporate Cases
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Jan L. Handzlik - The wave of corporate corruption scandals starting with the 2001 failure of Enron has led...
The Sacramento office of McKenna Long & Aldridge is so new that on a recent afternoon, the receptionist at McKenna's San F...
LOS ANGELES - Grace Reiner, the assistant executive director of the Writers Guild of America West whose expertise on writers' ...
Intellectual Property
Supreme Court Will Consider Altering Obviousness Patent Test
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - It isn't always obvious whether something is obvious - at least not in patent law.
Judges and Judiciary
Complex Litigation Doesn't Faze This Los Angeles Judge
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - As managing judge at Central Civil West, Carolyn B. Kuhl oversees Los Angeles County Superior Court's innovative...
WASHINGTON - Congress could have disqualified U.S. District Court Judge Alcee Hastings from ever holding federal office when h...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eva Paterson may be known for decades of work promoting civil rights, but lately she has been daydreaming of a...
Corporate
Do Not Punish Entire Investigation Trade for HP's Deviant Probe
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Keith Rohman - Politicians, legal experts and journalists have professed to be appalled and scandalized by H...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - I am writing to comment on an article that appeared in the Sept. 15 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Jour...
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Jason A. Weiss - As incidents of harassment, discrimination and retaliation continue to infect the work...
LOS ANGELES - Bruce Karatz, class of '70, has built considerable goodwill at USC's Gould School.
WASHINGTON - It was 20 years ago when Michigan lawmakers, facing a mortgage scandal that saw investors and borrowers lose mill...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who befriended a lonely and isolated zoo chimpanzee can sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture over th...
LOS ANGELES - A Latino group is hoping a recent U.S. Supreme Court will bolster its argument that the district boundaries for ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Matthew C. Mickelson - A true story, except for the name: Cassandra was a senior associate at a medium-sized...
SAN FRANCISCO - The incoming presiding judge of San Francisco County Superior Court has decided that a colleague who sits in t...
As a young university professor in the 1970s, Norman Brand had only fleeting thoughts of a legal education — until he got hims...
SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lawrence G. "Gary" Antolini's refusal in October to bar portions of a NBC pro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Not far from the Central Valley city of Stockton, an ambitious developer wants to create a new community near ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Chad J. Levy and Erica S. Alterwitz - Evidence of actual confusion, or the lack thereof, is often the dispos...
FORUM COLUMN - By Joshua Spivak - With California on a post-election political ascendancy, the state Legislature's leaders ar...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Jack W. Morgan. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In his first effort to disband gangs through civil injunctions, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has...
LOS ANGELES - Former Jones Day temporary worker Stephen Heller - considered a whistle-blower by some and a thief by prosecutor...
Judges and Judiciary
Witnesses Say Their Statements Were Works of P.I.'s Fiction
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Private Investigator David Vacca's official account of his work on an Orange County death-penalty case read li...
Technology & Science
L.A. Jury Finds LCD Patents Were Willfully Infringed Upon
By Anna Oberthurn
A federal court jury in Los Angeles awarded a major manufacturer of LCD technology $50 million in damages Tuesday in a patent ...
SACRAMENTO - Hoping to capitalize on some of the prime real estate it owns, the California judiciary is exploring the formatio...
Government
Voters Won't Know Results of Dead DA's Race as Court Calls for New Election
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - From beyond the grave, the late District Attorney Norman Vroman is still shaking up Mendocino County. ...