Criminal
Unusual Sentencing Leads To Robber's Double Time
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In an unusual application of kidnapping law, prosecutors convinced a jury that a jewelry-store robber also was gui...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyer Sets His Sights on Tobacco Company Again
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - It was just a few months ago that lawyer Michael Piuze won the largest punitive-damage award for an individual i...
Even a certified public accountant gets a little chill when a client calls to say he or she received an examination, or audit,...
LOS ANGELES - Gilbert N. Kruger, a prominent corporate-law specialist who once counseled members of the royal family of Saudi ...
At the request of Attorney General John Ashcroft, Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar expanded th...
Would you represent the terrorists if you were a defense attorney? Jeffrey S. Bosley, Thelen Reid & Priest, San Francisco,...
LOS ANGELES - In a major overhaul of its governance structure, San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has created thre...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marketing has always been a tricky business for law firms. Some lawyers look upon advertising with disgust. Ot...
LOS ANGELES - Embattled file-sharing company Napster Inc. is one step closer to ending its legal woes. On Monday, the Redwood ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday ordered five men released from prison after the district attorney's...
SAN FRANCISCO Before even thinking about citing unpublished appellate opinions in federal litigation, attorneys should read Mo...
LOS ANGELES - In a tradition nearly as old as the country, 2,700 people, representing hundreds of nationalities, gathered last...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco defense lawyer traumatized by the East Coast terror attacks butted heads with a determined jud...
Intellectual Property
Don't You Dare Try to Copy A Milberg Weiss Pleading
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A pleading filed recently in a San Francisco securities action contains an unusual footnote: a copyright notic...
SAN FRANCISCO - Juvenile convictions, because they do not involve a jury trial, cannot be used to increase prison sentences f...
Judges and Judiciary
Mental-Health Liaisons Draw Praise, Criticism
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - "Where's Veliz?" the judge said. "We need Veliz." The invocation came one recent day from Superior Court Judge J...
Technology & Science
French Claim Against Yahoo Doesn't Seem To Sway Judge
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal judge seemed sympathetic Monday to claims that Yahoo Inc. should be shielded from a French court order in...
Government
Absentee-Fatherhood Effort Stays Alive, Despite Long-Odds Underdog Status
By Garry Abrams
While this country was reeling from the initial horror of the suicide hijacker attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., Sacra...
SACRAMENTO - Barry Goode is the perfect model of a governor's legal secretary. He's smart. He's low-key. He's unflappable. He'...
LOS ANGELES - Naren Chaganti was as disillusioned as any other American on the Friday night following the terrorist attacks on...
In a sweeping new opinion, the California Supreme Court has made it easier than ever for a plaintiff in a disability-discrimin...
Law firms tell their own side of the layoff story, taking aim at some gruesome rumors, and emphasize that the economic downtur...
On weekends you can catch attorney Bradley Small in front of his television, watching professional wrestling. But that doesn't...
Danna M. Kozerski has taken her law practice to a new piece of real estate. The attorney joined the San Francisco office of Co...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: CORPORATE RAINMAKER WILL DIVIDE HIS TIME IN SAN DIEGO
By Toni Vranjes
The recent addition of corporate attorney Craig Andrews to Latham & Watkins is part of the firm's ongoing efforts to expan...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: LAWYERS DOUBLE UP, VACATE OFFICES IN POST-ATTACK AID
By Toni Vranjes
Three California law firms have opened their doors to help New York law firms and businesses displaced by the terrorist attack...
Precisely when do "strike" priors disqualify a defendant from being eligible for probation under Proposition 36? ...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: AUTODESK IS ABUZZ WITH ACQUISITION OF BUZZSAW
By Columnist
San Rafael-based Autodesk Inc. has acquired San Francisco's Buzzsaw Inc. The transaction calls for Autodesk to pay $15 million...
Transactions
Manatt Phelps: E-MEDSOFT JOINS FORCES WITH CHARTWELL SERVICES
By Columnist
Med Diversified Inc. of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., the parent of e-MedSoft.com, recently completed its merger with Chartwell Di...
Following the massive attorney layoffs announced by Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward and Fenwick & West, California Law Busi...