Law Practice
Qualcomm, Cell Phone Makers Catch Break in Patent Dispute
By Craig Andersonn
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated an exclusion order barring the importation of wireless devices conta...
There are several reasons why a committee and its counsel are better served by the extra protection of an exculpation clause i...
San Diego jurist John S. Meyer is approachable in court, and lawyers who have cases before him like it that way. ...
The appellate firm of Horvitz & Levy has added two associates to its Encino office.
"The Buddhist tradition is to find a solution through communication, not courts or police," said Suon In, pictured right, a mo...
Job prospects dimmed for former Orange County prosecutor Vickie L. Hix after she campagined against her boss in a district at...
San Francisco police evacuated part of the Embarcadero West office building Monday after a man showed up at Lief Cabraser with...
Litigation
Accounting Giant Must Pay $31.8 Million in Negligence Case
By Jason W. Armstrong
KPMG must pay a former Corona company $31.8 million under a jury verdict in which Newport Beach lawyers accused the Big Four a...
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...
Parental involvement laws do not transform dysfunctional families into stable and supportive ones. They simply give pregnant t...
A recent appellate decision tells us that the trial court has discretion in dividing the community interest in survivor benefi...
Law Practice
Skadden Exhibit of New Artists Goes on Display in Hollywood
By Amanda Becker
everal years ago, when partners at the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom started thinking about a...
Web Exclusive - Lawyers for defendants in the Broadcom stock-option backdating case joined in a motion that aggressively probe...
For years, patent attorneys representing defendants complained about being forced to try infringement cases in the Eastern Dis...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Creates Center to Settle Public Land Use Disputes
By Greg Katzn
Mediator and attorney Len Levy remembers being glued to public access television in 2006, as the Los Angeles City Council, fla...
Winston & Strawn adds a labor and employment litigator in Los Angeles.
Real Estate/Development
Judge Rules L.A. Planners Hid Environmental Reports, Violated Brown Act
By Peter Matuszakn
Open government advocates won a victory last week when a judge ruled that the city's practice of using internal city codes to ...
The prevailing theme Friday as officials laid out a plan for trial court funding was, it could have been much worse. ...
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
Banks' Action Forces Heller to Lay Off Large Group of Employees
By Jill Redhage
San Francisco's firm-in-dissolution, Heller Ehrman, laid off a large number of its employees Friday, a source at the firm with...
Equitable estoppel is a powerful doctrine that prevents a party from escaping responsibility for losses incurred through condu...
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
McAfee Settlement Gets Preliminary Nod From Federal Judge
By Craig Andersonn
A U.S. judge has given preliminary approval to a backdating lawsuit against former McAfee Inc. officers and directors that exc...
Legal malpractice expert co-founded Los Angeles law firm ...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Prop 8 Would Codify the Kind of Intolerance We Fight Against Abroad
By Sara Libbyn
Prop 8 would amend the California Constitution to codify the kind of societal human rights violation that we've been fighting ...
A federal judge Friday refused to give homeowners allegedly cheated by failed IndyMac Bank more time or assistance to file cla...
Law Practice
S.D. City Attorney Sues WaMu, Alleging Unfair Lending Practices
By Pat Broderick
San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre Friday filed suit against Washington Mutual, Inc., over its lending practices. ...
Web Exclusive - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and class action lawyers filed a unique motion against Blue Cross, seeking to h...
Law Practice
U.S. Circuit Affirms San Jose Judge's Decision Invalidating 'Obvious' Patent
By Craig Andersonn
Last year, a federal judge tossed out a $74.7 million patent infringement verdict in favor of Fremont-based Asyst Technologies...
A state appellate court ruled Friday that Los Angeles County is not allowed to give its judges extra compensation on top of th...