Intellectual Property
Judge Denies Genentech Motion For Mistrial Over News Stories
By Pamela Mac Lean
On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...
Family
Growing Pains
By Cheryl Romo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...
Environmental
Farmers Challenge EPA Right To Regulate Runoff Into Rivers
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...
Government
Jury Clears San Bernardino in Administrators Harassment Suit
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...
Government
Term-Limit Act To Be Weighed By High Court
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...
Insurance
Prosecutor Wants Lawyer's Conviction Aired
By Michael Harris
In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...
Government
City Must Answer on Overtime Pay
By Lauren Blau
A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...
Law Practice
Foundation Helps Students Overcome Hurdles
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tort Reformers Will Go by a New Moniker
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...
Law Practice
'Formidable Opponent'
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...
Criminal
The Age of Innocence
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - When she attended a Riverside County day-care center for senior citizens in the mid-1990s, Aurelia Solano apparen...
Judges and Judiciary
Villaraigosa Adds Crystal Lui to Judicial Agency
By Jean Guccione
Crystal Lui, the wife of retired Los Angeles Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui, has been named to the Commission on Judicial...
Government
Starr: Act Is Constitutionally Dubious
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Portraying himself as a proud foot soldier following the well-intentioned but misguided marching orders of the s...
Judges and Judiciary
Claims Against Kline 'Unsound,' Judges Contend
By Jean Guccione
Calling allegations of misconduct against Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline "legally unsound," the California Judges Associa...
Insurance
Lawyers Balk At Move to Sacramento
By Tom Dresslar
SAN FRANCISCO - Trading the bright lights of San Francisco for the somewhat more subdued glow of the state capital is against...
Criminal
Operation Casablanca Trial Opens in L.A.
By Martin Bergn
After prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that defendants in Operation Casablanca willingly participated in a massive money-laund...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Electronic Filing Measure
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - E-mail and Web pages could become standard tools for lawyers and consumers who use the civil justice system, und...
Government
Ex-Menendez Prosecutor Sues DA for Overtime
By Michael Harris
Former Menendez brothers prosecutor David Conn has filed suit against his ex-boss, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil G...
Criminal
Legislature Takes a Step Toward Narrowing Felony-Murder Rule
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A half-dozen young men get into a brawl over a drug deal gone bad. One of the four buyers stabs the two dealers....
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
There's Something Unorthodox About Legal Malpractice Claim
By Denise Levin
A legal malpractice lawsuit between attorneys who are active in the Orthodox Jewish community has pitted religious law agains...
Law Practice
Plaintiffs Attorney Uses Law as Means For Social Change
By Denise Levin
If Roman M. Silberfeld were to list his victories during 25 years of practicing law, his resume of mass tort and personal inj...
Intellectual Property
Battle Over Growth Hormone Begins
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - With hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, the long-delayed Genentech patent infringement trial opened...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Milberg Weiss Pays $50M to Settle Lawsuit
By Tom Orewyler
A day after being tagged with a $45 million verdict for allegedly trying to destroy the reputation of a high-profile law and ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawsuit Questions Neutrality of Arbitrator
By Denise Levin
A law firm has been sued for allegedly failing to tell its client, a jewelry company, that the neutral arbitrator presiding o...
Judges and Judiciary
Authorities Request Help in Jurists Shooting
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said Monday they are seeking further information about a vehicle a...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Judge Grants Retrial in Rent Control Case
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Landlord attorneys who thought they'd scored a landmark victory when a jury ruled against the tenants in an E...
Environmental
Fish Wins One in Battle for Survival
By Martin Bergn
A little fish that could be the subject of a big legal dispute has won a round with a federal judge's ruling that authorities...
Personal Injury & Torts
Burned Tenant Wins $6.7 Million Jury Verdict
By Denise Levin
A man who suffers from bipolar disorder was awarded $6.7 million Monday by a jury who found his landlords responsible for the...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyer Accused of Sitting on Clients' Settlement
By Denise Levin
Attorney Steven L. Mazza, who recently avoided a trial on criminal charges, has been sued in an unrelated matter for allegedl...
Criminal
DNA Evidence Leads to Plea 22 Years Later
By Michael Harris
Twenty years ago, Los Angeles County prosecutors saw a murder case against a young man named Harry Rowley dismissed for lack ...