Litigation
Three-Year Patent Dispute Ends With Purchase of Defendant
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - A three-year patent litigation dispute between two medical diagnostic companies has ended with the plaintiff agr...
State laws protecting employees from discrimination, intimidation and threats to their civil rights in the workplace are not p...
SACRAMENTO - California Chief Justice Ronald George was expected to renew his plea Tuesday for more judges, better retirement...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott T. Millington uses technology to engage prospective jurors in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists have gone to court again to block a water agency's plans that critics believe would help fue...
Appellate Practice
Court Kills Countersuit in Oscar Crasher Litigation
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - It's a case with all the intrigue and drama worthy of an Academy Award: a sting operation to capture a party-cra...
SAN DIEGO - An employee at the El Cajon branch of San Diego's Superior Court who prosecutors believe stole cash to support a g...
LOS ANGELES - Any number of issues could have hit the table - energy regulation, prescription drug prices, Three-Strikes refo...
Marvell Buys Avago Unit - Marvell Technology Grup is buying the printer-chip unit of Avago Technologies for $240 million in ca...
RANCHO PALOS VERDES - A private individual purchased the Ocean Crest, a 90-unit apartment building at 6507 Ocean View Drive, f...
LOS ANGELES - Mario Rocha sits in state prison awaiting the outcome of his latest bid for freedom. It has been 10 years since ...
SUSPENSIONS Barone Jr., Leo Gerald , Willits Brubaker, Gregory A. , San Francisco Grady, Scott LaForce , Sherman Oaks PROBATI...
Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - Wiretaps are in the news today. There seems to be plenty of spying to go around. Yet fe...
Product Liability
Law Would Further Awareness of Prescription Drug Dangers
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Tens of millions of Americans may have been unknowingly exposed to serious side effects of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sometimes there is a good excuse for selling illegal drugs, such as: "I'm working for the Drug Enforcement Adm...
RIVERSIDE - The state judicial watchdog agency Monday charged a Riverside judge with trying to use his influence as a bench of...
LOS ANGELES - When downtown Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges announced in September an increase in...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for an Encinitas resident to sue a San Diego FBI agent for wron...
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to police officers, a legal haze surrounds a seemingly simple question: What constitutes a person...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tanya Neiman, who for almost 25 years pioneered pro bono work in the Bay Area and around the nation and invent...
Law Practice
Finding the Right Vendor Can Be the Toughest Search of All
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Somewhere along the line, Andrew Li, a technical support adviser at Latham & Watkins, made a key realizatio...
LOS ANGELES - Effective ways of presenting evidence unearthed through electronic discovery will be among the topics discussed...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Didier keeps note cards on every case he has tried during his 16-plus...
LOS ANGELES - Over the next two years, total revenues for the electronic discovery and electronic data management industry ar...
Administrative/Regulatory
Acute 'Pellicanoia' Hits Tinseltown Attorneys
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The Hollywood illegal wiretap scandal centering on celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano has spawned a new and...
LOS ANGELES - According to the old saw, money can't buy love - but it can purchase a private judge to preside over a divorce i...
SAN FRANCISCO - White & Case plans to shutter its San Francisco office to focus on its technology and patent litigation pr...
LOS ANGELES - A recent study of litigation trends by Fulbright & Jaworski found that electronic discovery is the No. 1 lit...
LOS ANGELES - With the blessing of the state, some California Indian tribes have built gambling palaces whose profits handsom...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ashford Hospitality Trust purchased the 338-room Pan Pacific San Francisco Hotel from W2001 Pac Realty LLC, a ...