SAN FRANCISCO - California regulators had no authority to require a railroad to maintain track safety at the scene of one of t...
Intellectual Property
Conflicting Duties Can Emerge During Prosecution of a Patent
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Eileen Lehmann - Prosecuting a patent application claiming an invention may create a...
Forum Column - By Katherine Darmer - Those who have followed the U.S. Supreme Court's recent confessions cases easily should h...
RIVERSIDE - A judge on Monday set a July 1 trial date for a case in which a San Bernardino County sheriff's investigator drew ...
Judges and Judiciary
Budget Woes Force County to Close Courts
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In a move to stave off the effects of the state budget crisis, Riverside court officials are closing three court l...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday decided to enter a bitter dispute among several Southeastern states over a plan to st...
SAN DIEGO - A disbarred San Diego lawyer must face trial on charges of grand theft, misappropriation of entrusted money and un...
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals court panel today tackles the question of whether multinational corporations can b...
LOS ANGELES - A small South Los Angeles insurance agent is fighting one of California's 10 largest auto insurers over rights t...
Litigation
PLF Sues City, Says Contract Law Violates Proposition 209
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A conservative law firm once again is taking aim at a San Francisco ordinance that helps minorities and women ...
Entertainment & Sports
Pooh's New Lawyers Suggest Children's Character Trial of Century
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The plaintiffs' new legal team in the high-profile Winnie the Pooh royalty case reportedly will inclu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hemorrhaging money as a result of falling advertising revenue and high staff costs, the San Francisco Chronicl...
Law Practice
Reporter's Notebook: Adachi Says Filing System Is a Virtual Fossil
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi wants to operate a paperless office one day and is starting by destroying old misd...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ralph Baxter wants to get personal with his firm's marketing campaign, so for the first time in recent memory,...
Judges and Judiciary
Presiding Judge's Re-Election Is First in 40 Years
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - For the first time in four decades, the presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court was re-elected, givin...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided Monday that the court has no jurisdiction over a legal dispute over o...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - In Chavez v. Martinez , the U.S. Supreme Court was presented with a golden opportunit...
Column - Legal Technology - By Linda G. Sharp and Michele C.S. Lange - The terms "electronic evidence," "e-discovery" and "com...
A tented reception in downtown Los Angeles' Music Center Plaza raised the curtain on the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law'...
A family operated maker of Christmas tree stands stood up to Home Depot, the nation's largest home improvement retailer, and w...
Ten major Wall Street firms have agreed to settle conflict-of-interest charges for $1.4 billion, but investors still are fumin...
Don't expect to see flashy but vacuous ads coming out of Morrison & Foerster's marketing department any time soon, says Ke...
Column - Litigation Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - Jurors are more forgiving of lay witnesses than of any other participants...
San Diego continues to show its strength as a center of biotech activity. Santarus Inc. has raised $51 million in a fourth rou...
Intellectual property litigator Louis Bovasso has joined the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig, the firm announced in Ma...
As Told By Pierce O'Donnell - The Daily Journal has discovered additional tape recordings of secret interrogations conducted 5...
Technology & Science
Typing Into the Future: Tiny Laptop Has Big-Time Appeal
By Contributing Writer
Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - I'm home when I get this call. "Paul, there's a big - and I mean big - package t...
A little-known Web site is now big news, thanks to Barbra Streisand. The California Coastal Records Project Web site displays ...
The U.S. government is partially responsible for the deaths of four intoxicated teenagers who crashed in a car after attending...
After spending 23 years as an executive in the entertainment industry, Fred Bernstein, a former president of Columbia TriStar ...