Forum Column By Eve Hill In California, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, only about 36 percent of the ...
Intellectual Property
Invalid Provisionals Are Trouble for Patent Applicants
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Focus Column — Intellectual Property — By Laura Majerus — A 1995 change in the patent law allows applicants to file a provisio...
Judges and Judiciary
Both Sides Claim Success in Bench-Nominee Talkathon
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In the wake of last week's deeply partisan Senate debate on judicial nominations that culminated with Democrats b...
CORONA - In an unprecedented decision, the state's alcoholic beverage watchdog on Friday overturned a 30-day suspension of a l...
FRESNO - Under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court, a state appellate panel appears likely to slash a $290 million judgment a...
Judges and Judiciary
Riverside Judges Pick New Commissioner
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Riverside County judges have selected family law facilitator Dale R. Wells as a new Superior Court commissioner. ...
LOS ANGELES - Looking to continue its East Coast expansion, Irvine-based JAMS has merged with Washington, D.C.'s ADR Associate...
SACRAMENTO - Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Paul Dobson, a Republican and veteran deputy attorney general, as ...
Criminal
Florida Federal Judge Questioned L.A. Private Eye's Expertise
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams — Early this year, a federal judge in Florida strongly questioned the federal government's choice of Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - While senators held a 40-hour marathon debate last week on four stalled Republican judicial appointments, the ...
LOS ANGELES - Over objections from the Los Angeles Archdiocese, a state appeals court has ordered that oral arguments be open ...
Losing an appeal is bad enough. But Los Angeles appellate-court justices burned R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and its counsel with...
Carlsbad Corporate Center, 5818 and 5830 El Camino Real, Carlsbad CARLSBAD - In a $15.3 million transaction, two industrial b...
Judges and Judiciary
Critics' Denigration of Kuhl Simply Represents Payback
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Forum Column - By Steven Ipsen - Nominees for federal judgeships endure a painstakingly thorough investigation into every face...
Forum Column By Hirbod Rashidi One of the most memorable moments of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation ...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Conventional wisdom is that one should give two weeks' notice before leaving a jo...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Bruce Hurwitz - A recent federal court decision exposes directors and officers of private co...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco law enforcers sent John Tennison and Antoine Goff to prison for 13 years for a murder the distri...
SAN DIEGO - A Marine veteran of Vietnam who set his law practice aside to sit as a temporary judge in juvenile court became a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - If a defendant is acquitted - even erroneously - that still counts as an acquittal and the defendant cannot be...
Criminal
Panel Says First Amendment Protects Lawyer's Comments
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate panel ruled Thursday that a San Bernardino County deputy public defender was protected by t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying the government took too long to bring the defendant to trial, to...
Personal Injury & Torts
Varian Foes Down, But Not Out, in 6th DCA's Ruling
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - An appellate court upheld Thursday the $775,000 libel judgment against two former Varian Associates research scient...
WASHINGTON - In the wee hours of Thursday morning, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., did his best Jerry Seinfeld impersonation in r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate America will ask a Fresno appellate court today to gut the record-setting punitive damage award that...
FULLERTON - In an transaction valued at $1 million, Layton-Belling & Associates leased the final space in its 280,000-squ...
LOS ANGELES - Ending weeks of speculation in the legal community, Larry Feldman said Wednesday that he is joining the Century ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Employment lawyers don't like to admit any deficiency in evaluating...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - An Oct. 23 Human Rights Watch report concludes that a significant part of America's 2.1 mil...
Labor/Employment
'State Farm' Decision May Apply to Emotional-Distress Damage Claims
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barrett K. Green - "No definite standard or method of calculation is prescribed by law by w...