LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley vowed Monday to fight county plans to eliminate 23 deputy dist...
WASHINGTON - Faced with the prospect of overturning more than 100 death penalties - and perhaps thousands of noncapital senten...
Judges and Judiciary
Primary Could Derail Specter's Chance to Chair Judiciary Panel
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - After serving on the highly contentious Senate Judiciary Committee for 23 years, Sen. Arlen Specter is only one e...
Appellate Practice
Splitting 9th Circuit Is No Big Deal for Some Justices
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Among federal judges, size matters. ...
FAIRFIELD - Superior Court Judge Mike Nail works hard to banish the notion that he favors prosecutors in his Solano County cou...
SANTA ANA - Westminster officials dodged a $7.8 million bullet Monday, as state education officials found the school district'...
SAN FRANCISCO - You've got to know when to fold 'em. An angry client unjustly accused Woodland Hills lawyer Jerome Zamos of fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court voided a three-time shoplifter's 25-years-to-life prison sentence Monday, labeling it ...
The Internet has taken over many facets of everyday life, from shopping to meeting that special someone. But until recently, y...
Administrative/Regulatory
Eyewear Concern Prevails Against Consumer Cause
By Draeger Martinez
Emerging Vision, an eyewear company that operates the Sterling Optical and Site For Sore Eyes retail chains, has won its fight...
Criminal defense attorney Larry Wolf may not be a marketing genius. But, at the very least, he's a marketing junkie. "I've don...
Cellular giant Qualcomm has managed to keep a lock on its global-positioning-system technology, used to track the location of ...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Linda Fermoyle Rice - Your boss just asked you to make an appearance for him and you expect ...
The American College of Trial Lawyers has added 15 California attorneys to its ranks. The honorees include big-firm stalwarts,...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By David Houston - Fernando, a 46-year-old Santa Fe Springs roofer, didn't want to tell his wife...
Digital technology and the Internet are creating a new breed of intellectual property litigants, says Jennifer Granick, execut...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco may be the first to decide the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortio...
Actor Lou Ferrigno, best known for his role as "The Incredible Hulk," and his wife Carla had a not-so-incredible experience in...
Five corporate attorneys have left their positions at indigenous San Diego firm Procopio Cory to join the local outposts of Lo...
SANTA ANA - Exactly how much is a cozy lap dance or a naked lady serving you juice worth? Bill Gammoh for one has been willing...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Awards $168,240 to Kin of Woman Shot by Police
By Eron Yehuda
A jury recently awarded the family of a mentally ill woman $168,240 after finding three Long Beach officers negligent in her s...
Lauren L. Stevens, a patent lawyer with a doctorate in organic chemistry, last month joined the Palo Alto office of intellectu...
San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss has hired Jeffrey Wortman to serve as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former Drummer Controls Rhythm When He Mediates
By Eron Yehuda
As a professional drummer in the early 1980s, Michael R. Diliberto took cues from other band members on when to join in and wh...
Litigation
Principles of War Apply as Well to Courtroom Battles
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By Byron W. Cooper - Many parallels have been drawn between war and litigation. Both require leaders...
Technology transactions partner Glenn Nash has left Cooley Godward to join the Menlo Park office of Latham & Watkins. Nash...
During his days in law school, Bill Hunter says, he used to complain that going into patent law wouldn't give him opportunitie...
Forum Column - By David Wood - Surf through the how-to tips on MarthaStewart.com and you'll notice a common thread. Whether th...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - Rajiv P. Patel - Patents deployed for strategic business purposes in a licensing or lit...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
ERISA Doesn't Pre-empt State Suits Seeking Reimbursement
By Columnist
Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Harvey L. Rochman and Joanna S. McCallum - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals surprised...