Judges and Judiciary
Eye on the Bench: Election 2006 Judicial Candidates Go on the Record
By Amy Kalinn
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the June 6 primary election, this week the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candid...
Law Practice
The Perfect Arbitration Clause Should Be Tailored for Client
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Charles S. Evendorff and Sara J. O'Connell - In the heat of sealing a deal, corporate attorneys may be more ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tax attorney Robert A.N. Cudd has joined Morrison & Foerster's tax department as a partner, bringing 30 ye...
SAN BERNARDINO - Former San Bernardino County Superior Court Presiding Judge Roberta McPeters, the only woman ever to hold the...
LOS ANGELES - The San Diego Bar Association honored retired Judge William C. Pate and San Diego County Superior Court Judge Pa...
Large Firms
Cooley Looks Like a 'Sure Thing' for Building a Patent Group
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Nan Wu, most recently of-counsel with Morgan Lewis & Bockius, has joined Cooley Godward's intellectual pro...
Judges and Judiciary
Complaint Heard 'Round the Judiciary Nips at 9th's Chief
By Amelia Hansenn
In 1999, a federal judge in Los Angeles took a special interest in the bankruptcy case of a struggling young divorcee. ...
Law Practice
Plaintiffs Surround Google, Yahoo at Pay-Per-Click Corral
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - In the Wild West of Internet-related litigation, it's a classic showdown: California search engine giants Google an...
LOS ANGELES-The case of the feds versus the firm promises to be a protracted battle, one that may leave more than a little met...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George had high hopes for this year's legislative session in Sacramento. A...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association honored Superior Court Judge Jacqueline A. Connor on Thursday with its 2006 Outstandin...
Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott announced that managing partner Scott P. DeVries was re-elected to his seventh consecutive...
MURRIETA - Superior Court Judge James T. Warren sees himself as a fly-under-the-radar kind of guy. But there's a flip side to ...
NEW YORK - Lawyers at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman struggled Thursday to show they were pressing forward with the bu...
LOS ANGELES - The bombshell conspiracy and mail fraud indictment of securities class-action giant Milberg Weiss Bershad & ...
Intellectual Property
Court Tackles Patent Reform, Pulling Law Toward Mainstream
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Sarah M. King - This week, in eBay v. MercExchange, the Supreme Court stepped definitively into the patent r...
Litigation
Court Cuts Through Years of Misguided Confusion About 'Probate Exception'
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - Popular cable channel VH1 runs a regular segment called "Best Week Ever," which typically f...
Labor/Employment
'Inappropriate Comparator' Defense Can Be Undoing of Discrimination Suits
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By John A. Vogt - Obtaining summary judgment in defense of a discrimination claim is difficult, to say the...
Billionaire investor Ron Burkle has fought to keep his high-profile divorce from the public eye, but on Thursday, an appellate...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Finding Out What Matters - Besides Money
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - A popping sound came from the boys' bathroom. Moments later, a 15-year old boy emerged, spraying more bullets in...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a two-year labor contract Thursday with a union representing state lawyers and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland public-interest group is filing suit today to keep the Federal Emergency Management Agency from cut...
SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday could drastically change how lower courts handle patent ...
Criminal
Top Court Finds No Conspiracy Against Jews - Just a Lying Ex-DA
By Itir Yakarn
The state's high court concluded Thursday that a former Alameda County prosecutor lied about colluding with a judge to kick Je...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday charged one of the world's most successful class action firms, M...
Judicial Profile
Distinguished Jurist of the Year Crusades for Special Courts
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Judge Wendy S. Lindley doesn't refer to most of the convicted felons who appear in her court as defendants. To L...
LOS ANGELES - When a federal judge told Los Angeles County it could not close a rehabilitation center providing specialized me...
Federal Court rulings from March 2006 created conflicts of authority on important issues affecting businesses and government o...
Her father was a cook. Her mother was a homemaker. But Dalila Corral Lyons became a judge. When Lyons enrolled at the Univers...
LOS ANGELES - After several days of intense negotiations in Washington, D.C., attorneys working to stave off the indictment of...