'Johnson' Makes Means-Plus-Function Claims for Patents More Attractive
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Focus Column - By David E. Heisey - A recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has narrowed patent ...
Standing Tall
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Forum Column - By Omer S.J. Williams - Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the only large law firm that had its primary office in the...
Take Active Role in Deposition Defense Game
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Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - The prevailing wisdom among litigators is that only deposition takers can win and only the ...
Exhibition of Explicit Drawing Not Sexual Harassment
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Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Just as beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, so harassment may be in the eye of...
Law, War: Teamwork of a Different Sort
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - For 17 days last spring, Capt. Jesse Miller commanded 154 American soldiers in one of Bravo Company's toughest...
Court Limits Reach of Unfair Competition Law
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Putting limits on a tool for taking corporate wrongdoers to court, a state appellate panel has ruled that a Los ...
Downloaded Material OK In Jail Mail
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday struck down a California prison rule that prevents inmates from receiving Internet-g...
New Punishment for Illegal Practice of Law
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a measure into law Wednesday that strengthens penalties against those who practice law wit...
Legal Leviathan's Press Release Harpoons Voyager in Midpassage
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - So the Good Ship Lollipop is really the HMS Bounty and the officers are in a hanging, keelhauling, gi...
Tranquilizers Didn't Affect Guilty Verdict, Circuit Rules
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Accused murderer Jane Benson requested and got powerful drug cocktails from Lake County jailers during her 19...
Pot Stays Out of Defamation Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - References to plaintiff Mary Miles' alleged marijuana farming remain barred from the defamation trial of the S...
Superior Court Bench Elects Presiding Judge
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Assistant Presiding Judge Robert A. Dukes on Wednesday became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superi...
Whirlwind Judge Makes Changes
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The last thing Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Philip K. Mautino wanted to see was razor wire strung in front o...
Take Active Role in Deposition Defense Game
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Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - The prevailing wisdom among litigators is that only deposition takers can win and only the ...
Standing Tall
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Forum Column - By Omer S.J. Williams - Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the only large law firm that had its primary office in the...
Students Will Hear Lesson in Civic Tradition
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Marking the first anniversary of Sept. 11, volunteer judges and attorneys will visit 15 Los Angeles high schools...
Executive Accused of Wire Fraud
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The co-founder and chief executive of a San Jose software company was charged Tuesday with wire fraud for fabricati...
Advocates Denounce Arrests of Immigrants Working at Airports
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Immigrant rights advocates are protesting the arrests of more than 100 workers at Southern California airports, ...
California Courts Differ on Liability for Negligent Handling of Emergency Calls
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Focus Column - By Daniel P. Barer - "Nine-one-one." Long before the Sept. 11 attacks lent those three digits an ironic double ...
Simon's Firm Asks Court to Toss Verdict
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon's family investment firm asked a Los Angeles County Superior Co...
Victims' Fund Keeps Firms, Families Busy
By Charles Asbhy
Jamie A. Levitt has her hands full these days. As a Morrison & Foerster attorney in the firm's Manhattan office, Levitt is...
Orrick Loses Corporate Partner in L.A.
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has lost another corporate partner in its Los Angeles office....
Detentions Trouble Experts of All Persuasions
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - While the hours that followed the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., resonated with a simple unde...
John Frank, Mentor to Jurists, 84
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - John P. Frank, the lawyer and author who helped launch the careers of some of the nation's most prominent mino...
Court Won't Stop Peace Prize Nominee's Death
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday refused to halt the execution of convicted killer Stanley Williams, co-founder o...
Mortgage Firm Settles With Its Borrowers for $60 Million
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - In the largest Federal Trade Commission action of its kind, more than 18,000 home-mortgage borrowers will receive ...
Escutia's Last-Minute Effort Was Too Much, Critics Say
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Every year at the end of the legislative session, there's a mad scramble by lobbyists to get their pet projects a...
Singled Out as a Security Risk
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - When Mohammad Sayed and Omar Zazia decided to take a Saturday night off from their university studies to see a l...
Juror Illness Halts Westerfield Deliberations
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge suspended jury deliberations Tuesday in the trial of David A. Westerfield because a juror was ill, setting...
Banks Fight Local Privacy Ordinances
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank asked a federal court Tuesday to strike down two separate ordinances by D...