Intellectual Property
Legal MasterMind Tackles MasterCard Over Purloined Sex Pictures
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Thanks to the Internet, the greatest development in thievery since the invention of highway robbery, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors committed misconduct by consulting Bible passages and religious leaders while deliberating in a death p...
OAKLAND - Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" adorns Alameda County Superior Court Judge Philip V. Sarkisian's chambers. Each year Sa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The cash-strapped U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would get a big budget boost next year if Congress approves...
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has tapped partner Bruce Friedman to serve as the firm's managing partner. Friedman, who ...
Roxio Inc., the Santa Clara company that relaunched the famous Napster music service, has closed a $22.5 million financing dea...
During the first year of the 2003-2004 Legislative Session, the Legislature and Governor enacted over 130 bills that affect th...
Mobile software company Aligo Inc. has received an infusion of $10.5 million. Peter Cohn, a partner at Orrick, Herrington &...
Brian Burr specializes in representing small companies in negotiations with industry titans, and his skills came in handy for ...
Legislative Summary - By Linda Rapattoni and Hudson Sangree - Before voters recalled him last year, former Gov. Gray Davis man...
Newport Beach's Call, Jensen & Ferrell has lured away Irell & Manella partner Kyhm Penfil. The litigation partner join...
Saying the move is for the good of his clients, corporate attorney George J. Wall has left Irvine's Palmieri, Tyler, Wiener, W...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Identifying Parties' Goals Eases Mediation Process
By Contributing Writer
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Laurel Greenspan Kaufer - Many people, even those who use mediation frequently, a...
Many law students aspire to practice public-interest law. But according to this year's new crop of Skadden Fellows, opportunit...
Lane Liroff, the Santa Clara County prosecutor who won convictions against two Asian Boyz gang members, was honored Friday as ...
A Solano County jury last month refused a former semipro baseball player the half-million dollars in damages he sought for his...
The past four months have been a puzzling time for some trial lawyers, who say recent conflicting appellate-court decisions le...
Morrison & Foerster added Dr. Gregory Einhorn as a patent law partner in its San Diego office Jan. 21. Einhorn comes to th...
Six gay students who say school officials did little to stop the physical abuse and daily harassment they suffered in the Morg...
A Southern California judge recently denied a defense lawyer's post-trial motions that called a $6.65 million award in a trip-...
Bingham McCutchen has been beefing up its West Coast broker-dealer practice, says practice group head Gerald Rath. With the ad...
Column - Legal Marketing - By Anne Bothwell - The start of a new year is often when lawyers and firms want to upgrade their ma...
Forum Column - By Ann Brick - The federal government has confirmed that it plans to take the unprecedented step of conducting ...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in Goodridge v. Department of Public He...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Thomas Havlena - California has had "reciprocal" criminal discovery since June 1990. See Pena...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph C. Scott, former criminal defense attorney and local Democratic Party political heavyweight, had ...
Criminal
Priest, 72, Pleads Guilty to Molesting Teenage Girl in Back Seat of Family Car
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - A 72-year-old priest pleaded guilty Friday to molesting a teenage girl in the back seat of her family's car last...
Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Fabian Nunez is set to call the shots as new assembly speaker Feb. 9, and when th...
LOS ANGELES - Celebrated author Mark Salzman began teaching creative writing to the most violent teenage offenders at Central ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Southern California lawyers recently got their first peek at an issue that had bedeviled their m...