SAN JOSE - In a ruling hailed by prosecutors as a sweeping victory, a Santa Clara County judge ordered Avant Corp. on Thursday...
Intellectual Property
Xilinx, Altera End Lawsuits, Announce Peace Pact
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Semi-conductor titans and fierce rivals Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corp. have ended a nearly eight-year patent dis...
LOS ANGELES - Nearing his 65th birthday, a former Navy captain and high-ranking federal prosecutor should be looking forward t...
Almost all attorneys feel overwhelmed at times by a large number of tasks which seem impossible to complete. A trial may be ap...
Excess insurance protects a policyholder against large losses that exceed the limits of a primary or other underlying policy. ...
The express terms of general-liability policies typically impose a duty on an insurer to indemnify an insured against amounts ...
SAN FRANCISCO - City attorney candidate Steve Williams thinks San Francisco's new refuse and recycling policies are garbage an...
I recently came dangerously close to leaving the practice of law. Last fall, I had the good fortune to teach a writing class a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to revisit a long-running controversy over the proper standard f...
SANTA ANA - Huntington Beach City Councilman David Garofalo voted on city contracts in which he had financial interest, failed...
Transportation
Corona Sues Caltrans For Traffic Troubles
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
CORONA - The city of Corona filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state Department of Transportation, alleging Caltrans delibe...
LOS ANGELES - David Choi came to the United States from Korea a decade ago hoping to escape the discrimination he felt as a bl...
Judges and Judiciary
O'Conner, Breyer Talk About Election, International Issues
By Pamela Mac Lean
BIG SKY, Mont. - The one topic most of the 700 attendees of the 9th Circuit's judicial conference wanted to hear about Wednesd...
LOS ANGELES - A battle is brewing between the Los Angeles district attorney's office and a Superior Court judge who publicly r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald George has high hopes the empty seat on the California Supreme Court will be filled by ea...
SACRAMENTO - State lawmakers moved forward Wednesday with contempt charges against a second power generator, Reliant Energy, a...
Judges and Judiciary
Web Site Hangs Ten on Tsunami of Amateur Legal Advice Flooding Internet
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Pro pers of the Golden State, the Judicial Council of California feels your pain. In a move that mixes a flinty ...
William Hanley relishes representing the little guy. "When you're in the courtroom, there's just you and the witness," Hanley ...
On the day attorneys are admitted to practice law, they swear under oath to provide zealous advocacy to all clients. In Califo...
Attorney David J. Fuller looks out the window of his Judicate West office in Santa Ana toward the freeways that he and his Sub...
Sacramento is on the verge of tinkering again with the laws governing prenuptial agreements. And if it does, the winners won't...
Most of us have had the misfortune of being forced to submit to various parties' documents that were incomplete, incorrect or ...
When B.F. Goodrich Co. asserted some irregularities and held back $2.4 million from a deal with one of William B. Hanley's cli...
Adam D. H. Grant of Los Angeles' Christa & Jackson won a summary judgment motion in a workplace accident case.Newman v....
In 'Estate of Griswold,' the California Supreme Court took up the question of inheritance from or through an illegitimate chil...
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for Elizabeth King, an attorney with Bryan Cave in the firm's Santa Monica office. King die...
In July 2000, Division Six of the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued its decision in Amelco v. City of Thousand Oaks...
LOS ANGELES - A fired assistant district attorney in Orange County has sued in federal court to get his job back, alleging he ...
BIG SKY, Mont.- For the first time since its creation nearly a decade ago, the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award ha...
LOS ANGELES - David Ziskind, a Los Angeles labor lawyer who helped desegregate the city's Fire Department and chaired a local ...