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Law Practice


The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated an exclusion order barring the importation of wireless devices conta...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Getting Reorganized

Oct. 16, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

There are several reasons why a committee and its counsel are better served by the extra protection of an exculpation clause i...


Judicial Profile


The 'Regular’ Judge

Oct. 16, 2008
By Pat Alston

San Diego jurist John S. Meyer is approachable in court, and lawyers who have cases before him like it that way. ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Oct. 15, 2008
By Devan Mcclainen

The appellate firm of Horvitz & Levy has added two associates to its Encino office.


Law Practice


Buddhist Monks Find Legal Spats Fray Patience

Oct. 15, 2008
By Dhyana Levey

"The Buddhist tradition is to find a solution through communication, not courts or police," said Suon In, pictured right, a mo...


Judicial Profile


Career Bounce

Oct. 15, 2008
By Jim Adamekn

Job prospects dimmed for former Orange County prosecutor Vickie L. Hix after she campagined against her boss in a district at...


Law Practice


Bomb Scare

Oct. 15, 2008
By Devan Mcclainen

San Francisco police evacuated part of the Embarcadero West office building Monday after a man showed up at Lief Cabraser with...


Litigation


KPMG must pay a former Corona company $31.8 million under a jury verdict in which Newport Beach lawyers accused the Big Four a...


Litigation


A lawyer who was slated to race in the Ironman triathlon was forced to pull out after a crash with a car left him with serious...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


The Deceptive Dangers of Prop 4

Oct. 15, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Parental involvement laws do not transform dysfunctional families into stable and supportive ones. They simply give pregnant t...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Putting Your Nest Egg In the Wrong Basket

Oct. 15, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A recent appellate decision tells us that the trial court has discretion in dividing the community interest in survivor benefi...


Law Practice


everal years ago, when partners at the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom started thinking about a...


Law Practice


Questions for Broadcom Judge

Oct. 15, 2008
By Gabe Friedmann

Web Exclusive - Lawyers for defendants in the Broadcom stock-option backdating case joined in a motion that aggressively probe...


Law Practice


Ruling May Let Patent Suits Out of Texas

Oct. 15, 2008
By Craig Andersonn

For years, patent attorneys representing defendants complained about being forced to try infringement cases in the Eastern Dis...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Mediator and attorney Len Levy remembers being glued to public access television in 2006, as the Los Angeles City Council, fla...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Oct. 14, 2008
By Devan Mcclainen

Winston & Strawn adds a labor and employment litigator in Los Angeles.


Real Estate/Development


Open government advocates won a victory last week when a judge ruled that the city's practice of using internal city codes to ...


Law Practice


Judicial Council Grapples With Lean Budget

Oct. 14, 2008
By Amy Yarbroughn

The prevailing theme Friday as officials laid out a plan for trial court funding was, it could have been much worse. ...


Law Practice


Doctors, State Spar Over Medical Billing Ban

Oct. 14, 2008
By Evan George

A new regulation will impose fines on ER doctors who send patients the bill instead of sorting it out with health plans. But m...


Law Practice


San Francisco's firm-in-dissolution, Heller Ehrman, laid off a large number of its employees Friday, a source at the firm with...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Error Message

Oct. 14, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Equitable estoppel is a powerful doctrine that prevents a party from escaping responsibility for losses incurred through condu...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Making Waves For the Jury Pool

Oct. 14, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Just as nature abhors (and will fill) a vacuum, jurors hate blank spots in a case and will spontaneously fill them — often in ...


Law Practice


A U.S. judge has given preliminary approval to a backdating lawsuit against former McAfee Inc. officers and directors that exc...


Law Practice


James L. Seal, 1945-2008

Oct. 14, 2008
By Peter Matuszakn

Legal malpractice expert co-founded Los Angeles law firm ...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Prop 8 would amend the California Constitution to codify the kind of societal human rights violation that we've been fighting ...


Litigation


A federal judge Friday refused to give homeowners allegedly cheated by failed IndyMac Bank more time or assistance to file cla...


Law Practice


San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre Friday filed suit against Washington Mutual, Inc., over its lending practices. ...


Law Practice


State-sanctioned Rescission Deals Attacked

Oct. 14, 2008
By Evan George

Web Exclusive - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and class action lawyers filed a unique motion against Blue Cross, seeking to h...


Last year, a federal judge tossed out a $74.7 million patent infringement verdict in favor of Fremont-based Asyst Technologies...


Law Practice


Court Nixes Extra Pay for L.A. Judges

Oct. 14, 2008
By Laura Ernden

A state appellate court ruled Friday that Los Angeles County is not allowed to give its judges extra compensation on top of th...