Law Practice
Childhood Television Fantasy Becomes a Face-to-Face Cost-Saving Reality
By Hannah Naughtonhn
Flashback to the year 1968 when "The Jetsons" promised a future of flying cars and interactive televisions. It's 40 years late...
One of the most significant developments on the Internet in recent years has been the rise of online communities. ...
Law Practice
Law Libraries' Tech Tools Give Firms a Handle on Vast Information Universe
By Hannah Naughtonhn
Talk to any information professional today, and they will tell you that their biggest challenge is taming the information glut...
Law Practice
Where You Live May Be the Most Crucial Decision You Make
By Hannah Naughtonhn
The following is excerpted from the book "Who's Your City?" by Richard Florida. Reprinted by arrangement with Basic Books (www...
Law Practice
The Talent Contest: Looking for an Edge With the Creative Class
By Hannah Naughtonhn
Leading law firm managers pose questions to Richard Florida, author of "Who's Your City" and "The Rise of the Creative Class."...
An appellate court has overturned a judge's $5 fine for a lawyer who was five minutes late to his court, saying the jurist neg...
Andrew M. Katzenstein has joined Proskauer Rose in Los Angeles as a partner, leaving behind his firm of nearly 10 years, Katte...
A man who was charged with armed robbery is suing the city of Los Angeles, its Police Department, Chief William J. Bratton and...
Law Practice
Dead Men Can't Sign Patent Claims, Federal Judge Rules
By Craig Andersonn
Forging a dead person's signature on a patent application is quick way to get on a judge's bad side. ...
After watching a slideshow about Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping software, a federal jury heard testimony Tuesday from a man w...
Law Practice
Cooley Advises Brocade on Its $3 Billion Bid for Foundry
By Devan Mcclainen
Attorneys from Cooley Godward Kronish and Heller Ehrman in Silicon Valley assisted Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Fou...
Litigation
L.A. to Sue Big Banks, Claiming Losses From Bond Rate Scheme
By Susan Mcraen
Lawyers on behalf of the city plan to file two civil lawsuits today seeking millions of dollars in damages against some of the...
Law Practice
Elder Care Options Are the Latest Benefits Offered by Firms
By Jill Redhage
Among the firms that have added the back-up elder care program to their battery of benefits are Paul Hastings, Wilson Sonsini ...
Thanks to a recent federal court decision, protecting intellectual property rights on eBay and similar online auction sites ju...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Rulings Prove Car Passengers Deserve Protections From Searches
By Sara Libbyn
The silence of a nervous driver should not be considered implied consent for police to continue an unreasonable search, write ...
Lenders, homeowners and investors took unprecedented risks, and now the government must look to unprecedented solutions, write...
The 4th District Court of Appeal on Tuesday struck down class status for about 60,000 California restaurant workers who sued o...
Law Practice
Technology Focus: California Readies Rules of Its Own for Electronic Data
By Dhyana Leveyn
California e-discovery rules are coming. And in the wonky world of civil procedure, technical distinctions have provoked a deb...
Web Exclusive - A West Hollywood lawyer was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted lewd acts on a child a year after he a...
Wildman Harrold snags Foley & Lardner media and entertainment chair.
Law Practice
Senate Leader Calls for Plans to Ensure Public Access to Trials
By Dhyana Leveyn
Yolo County deputy sheriffs sparked outrage by locking the courthouse in Woodland during the arraignment of a man suspected of...
The ongoing battle, spearhead by Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Los Angeles, against the rise of mandatory arbitration agreements has g...
The government's tax evasion case against "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis moved to Los Angeles on Monday as the producer...
San Diego County will receive the lion's share of the appointments - eight. The governor's office named 22 other attorneys to ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Mediation 'Magic' Happens When Neutrals Revitalize Justice Issues
By Sara Libbyn
Mediation, though a sidecar to the Harley of litigation, is not a legal proceeding. It is a consensual, collaborative, interes...
Los Angeles is in the center of the nation's water wars because it imports such a large percentage of its water from far-away ...
Vanessa Wells, who represents insurance companies in California administrative and regulatory matters, jumped from Heller Ehrm...
A South Bay litigator, beachcomber and community figure died last week from liver failure. ...
Mediation communications are inadmissible as evidence even when parties voluntarily discuss them in court, the state Supreme C...
Entering high school at 12 and law school at 50, Commissioner Elizabeth Munisoglu carved out a unique route from rural New Jer...