Appellate Justice Daniel J. Kremer walked with a group of visitors through the hallways of the Simi Valley courthouse in outl...
DICTA When it isn't some poor soul conned out of his or her savings but instead a criminal geting conned, the result is sweet...
A movie studio is responsible for the negligent acts committed by an independent contractor producer who works out of its fac...
Feasible Fees? Court Strikes Blow to Section 317 Strategy Whether Section 317 justifies an award of attorney fees to a defend...
SAN DIEGO - A Carlsbad real estate lawyer who became infatuated with a client and wanted to marry her will stand trial July 1...
Intellectual property attorney Bruce D. Kuyper joins Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins as a partner, effective today . Kuyper...
DICTA 'Rembrants in the Attic' is a book about valuing, building and protecting business investments by effectively using pat...
SAN FRANCISCO - Although a federal judge in Los Angeles berated prosecutors as "asinine" for failing to add a weapons charge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa Supervisor Gayle Bishop, who succeeded in getting two of four perjury convictions tossed ...
SANTA ANA - When it came to awarding punitive damages, an Orange County Superior Court decided to send Los Angeles-based insu...
FORUM Recent hacker attacks may have given rise to a new form of legal liability. Page 6. By Peter Whalen and Nicole Goodwin ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether barring lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp. from c...
A proposal by Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks to prevent Rampart-style corruption by increasing the rati...
Litigation
In Fitting Finale, Bond Escapes Jaws of Sony and Invader From Isle of Man
By Garry Abrams
After 21/2 years of dreadful peril at the hands of a multinational entertainment behemoth and an aging, eccentric Irish film ...
Appellate Practice
Medical Licenses Can Be Pulled Without Full Appellate Review
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Dealing a blow to doctors, a fractured California Supreme Court ruled Monday that revocation of medical licenses...
LAGUNA NIGUEL - A California Highway Patrol officer suspected of lying about being shot during a traffic stop pleaded not guil...
THE ADVISER Initiatives from government and industry may stem the tide of Internet-spawned cybercrimes. By Peter Brown XX By ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dean Kristy and Susan Samuels Muck, litigation partners at Shearman & Sterling in San Francisco, have join...
THE ADVISER Under new overtime rules, firms still may be able to get staff to work long days without overtime pay. By Richard ...
SACRAMENTO - Records of a criminal investigation into the homicide of a toddler need not be turned over to his parents to help...
Large Firms
Gunderson Goes East: Bay Area Firm Launches Big-Apple Office
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian - the Menlo Park-based firm that gained national ...
Panel Prejudice Juror Misconduct Deprives a Defendant of Constitutional Rights Certain extraneous materials, such as dictionar...
THE CLOSER U.S. courts must remain user-friendly to continue as premier venues for intellectual property disputes. By William...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court jurors will begin hearing arguments next week to help them decide whether or not to s...
Judges and Judiciary
Early Harvard Law Dean Champions Trial Unification
By Denise Levin
The idea that trial court unification would benefit the justice system originated in the early 20th century. Harvard Law Schoo...
SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate court has for the first time upheld a California law making it a felony to send a child harmful m...
While lawyers for an automaking giant told jurors Friday that "truth doesn't matter" to officials at the leading product ratin...
An ex-judge is suing Ventura County to collect the $72,000 in legal costs he spent defending himself against alcohol-related d...
Litigation
Laches Are Forever, Judge Rules, Awarding MGM Bond Franchise
By Garry Abrams
U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie pounded a fatal stake through one of the movie business's longest-lived litigation monste...
SAN JOSE - Each time the real estate agent stopped by 83-year-old Janis Jepson's house last year, her grandson said she was as...