Tour de Latham
By Liz Valsamis
When legal-industry strategists decided a global presence was the way to ensure long-term success at the highest levels, U.S....
California's Top 50 Law Firms
By Tina Spee
Ask a law firm to pinpoint its main office location, and you're likely to get some incarnation of the following: "We don't ha...
Bush Nominates Janice Brown
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...
No Strict Liability in Transplant Of Tissue
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Suppliers of human tissue for medical procedures cannot be sued for strict liability because they provide a h...
Domain Names Ruled Intangible Property
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, while most people limited their thoughts about sex to the physical world, Gary Kremen was fantasizin...
Web Thieves Discourage Piracy
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - When a dozen federal agents came banging on his door at 7 a.m. with guns drawn and a battering ram, Michael Nguy...
7th Circuit Splits with 9th on Application of 'Betamax' Case
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - With a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision at the end of June, en...
Class Litigation Replaces Negotiation With Unions
By Sandra Corrales
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - Most people are aware that union membership has been declining for decades. In 2001, the ...
Question of Time
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Judicial review is most important when legislatures enact laws that are overwhelmingly p...
PG&E Parties Dispute Venue
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in a procedural battle that could determine the fate of lawsuits seek...
Governor Puts Quartet on Los Angeles Bench
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of Santa Monica court commissioner Joseph Shiro Biderman and...
Morgan Lewis Wins Cisco Litigation Deal
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has landed an exclusive, two-year deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to handle all of th...
9th Sees And Raises Sanctions
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld three contempt sanctions against a Larkspur criminal defense attorney who...
Suit Disputes Recall-Vote Proviso
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit challenging a section of the state Elections Code that requires voters to cast a vote on a recall before...
Prosecutor Struggles to Regain His Footing
By Dennis Opatrny
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Opatmy - Floyd Andrews returned to the San Francisco Hall of Justice this week. But it wasn't ...
City's Ex-Treasurer Indicted and Missing
By Anne La Jeunesse
SOUTH GATE - Albert T. Robles, the former South Gate city treasurer ousted in a January recall election, has been indicted on ...
Davis Fills Four Seats in San Diego Court
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed corporate attorney Randa M. Trapp to a vacant seat on the San Diego Superior Court, ...
Special Master Rips CDC for Evasive Stance In Rights Case
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The director of California's prison system, Edward Alameida, dropped three inquiries into alleged perjury by P...
Wanted For Murder
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An accused armed carjacker released from jail after Memorial Day in a dispute between the District Attorney's Of...
1st DCA Sends Huge Attorney Fee Deal Back Down
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Does it really take as many as 67 law firms charging as much as $1,000 an hour to settle class action claims o...
Reflective Glendale Jurist Keeps an Open Mind
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - William D. Stewart believes he has the best job in the world. Since early 2001, the soft-spoken Midwesterner has...
Unregistered Same-Sex Partner May File Wrongful-Death Suit
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Scott Forbes and William Miles III, a West Hollywood same-sex couple, had been living together since 1980, but l...
At an Impasse, Cooley and Orrick Call it Off
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Merger negotiations between Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Cooley Godward have collapsed even as merger...
No Place for Pariahs
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A legal showdown looms today in the case of Brian DeVries, the first child molester to complete the treatment progr...
Judge Finds Life An Adventure
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lauren Weis Birnstein is as enthusiastic talking about her legal career as she ...
Court Examines Boundary Between Expression, Idea
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris and Elise R. Vasquez - Copyright law provides a limited form of mon...
Bizarre Silence Has Pervaded Aftermath of Sept. 11 Attacks
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Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The pages of legal newspapers seem to scrupulously avoid critical analysis about the ...
Front Page Brief Headline
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Six plaintiffs who in 1999 won what was then the largest personal injury award in U.S. history have agreed to s...
Homeland Security Agency Aims to Correct Problems That Plagued INS
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Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - On March 1, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ceased to exist. ...
Insurers Drive Postal Profiling
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Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo, Dennis Herrera and John Russo - Consider this: A young, single man living in San Luis Obis...