Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Expedited Microsoft Trial Slowed by First Witness
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The judge presiding over the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. has set rules to expedite court proceedings,...
SACRAMENTO - With their opponents' campaign against their retention taking shape, Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. Georg...
RIVERSIDE - Creating an Internet Web site focusing on neo-Nazis and skinheads is not a crime. But prosecutors say what is a cr...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Liver Transplant Hopeful Sues Medical Center
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A seriously ill Mountain View man whose request for a liver transplant was rejected because of his history of drug...
SAN DIEGO - Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi, on behalf of a group called Smokers for Fairness, will try to convi...
SANTA ANA - Chris Burchinal had lived the classic American dream: starting his own business with just a little bit of cash an...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Gets Some Good News, on the Real Estate Front
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar of California may finally see the tiniest glint of a silver lining in Gov. Pete Wilson's veto of its funding bi...
SACRAMENTO - As Dan Lungren and Gray Davis enter the home stretch in their race to become California's next governor, the tri...
Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is accused of helping a friend conceal more than $1.8 million in funds allegedl...
Communications
Judge Dismisses Suit Seeking Internet Blocking in Library
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling limiting liability of public institutions under the federal Communications Decency Act, an Alamed...
MURRIETA - If school district officials had their way, Michael Ertel would not be attending Murrieta Valley High School right...
WASHINGTON - Call it Jurassic Pork, or maybe a budgetbillosaurus. The $520-billion spending package passed by the Senate and ...
WASHINGTON - In one of its final acts before adjourning for the year, the U.S. Senate Wednesday confirmed Los Angeles U.S. Att...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Woman Claims Lawyer Abandoned Her in Court
By Denise Levin
Her attorney's failure to appear twice for a family law trial and comply with discovery motions caused a woman to lose $4,050 ...
Attorney Larry R. Feldman has sued his former legal malpractice insurance carrier - not because the carrier backed out of cove...
Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti earned two victories Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors approved the formal cre...
Intellectual Property
Lawyer: Gates Not 'Great Satan,' Just a Competitor
By Daniel Shaw
By Daniel A. Shaw Los Angeles Daily Journal WASHINGTON - In his opening shot at the government Tuesday, Microsoft's lead atto...
A plan to implement radical changes in the way youngsters are treated at MacLaren Children's Center, the county's only shelte...
Los Angeles attorney Tony Keats, head of the intellectual property rights team of the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, lamb...
Criminal
Sobek Lawsuit Is Said to Settle, Though Rathbun Wins Judgment
By Denise Levin
Nearly three years after Linda Sobek was murdered in the Angeles National Forest, a settlement may have been reached between ...
Five women from the Ukraine and Belarus recently flew halfway around the world in their fight, against the odds, for the lega...
SAN JOSE - Money and sex have never been strangers, so it shouldn't have shocked anyone that they would embrace in cyberspace...
Former Southwest Airlines pilot Christopher G. Sheppard thought his co-workers were out to get him. They had conspired to get...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court Steers a New Course in Rescue Lawsuit
By Anna Marie Stolley
The tow truck operator was supposed to rescue stranded motorist James Tidmore, not the other way around. But roles quickly re...
One after another, the lawyers and judges took the podium with the task of roasting and, at the same time, paying tribute to L...
SAN JOSE - A large gray box standing in the lobby of the Santa Clara County jail could revolutionize the business of bailing ...
SACRAMENTO - As a gubernatorial campaign issue, judicial appointments barely registers. The subject isn't blessed with the vi...
Finding no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the conviction of a lawyer who conspired to murder a business associate, a...
SANTA ANA - Orange County judges will find out Friday whether or not they will be getting additional money from the Judicial ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal prosecutor who successfully handled the financial fraud case against former Arizona Gov. John Fif...