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Flashback to the year 1968 when "The Jetsons" promised a future of flying cars and interactive televisions. It's 40 years late...


Law Practice


Navigating the Tricky Waters of Social Networking

Jul. 24, 2008
By Hannah Naughtonhn

One of the most significant developments on the Internet in recent years has been the rise of online communities. ...


Talk to any information professional today, and they will tell you that their biggest challenge is taming the information glut...


Law Practice


The following is excerpted from the book "Who's Your City?" by Richard Florida. Reprinted by arrangement with Basic Books (www...


Law Practice


Leading law firm managers pose questions to Richard Florida, author of "Who's Your City" and "The Rise of the Creative Class."...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Voids Fine for Tardy Lawyer

Jul. 24, 2008
By Jason W. Armstrong

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...


Law Practice


Andrew M. Katzenstein has joined Proskauer Rose in Los Angeles as a partner, leaving behind his firm of nearly 10 years, Katte...


Litigation


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


Forging a dead person's signature on a patent application is quick way to get on a judge's bad side. ...


Litigation


After watching a slideshow about Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping software, a federal jury heard testimony Tuesday from a man w...


Law Practice


Attorneys from Cooley Godward Kronish and Heller Ehrman in Silicon Valley assisted Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Fou...


Litigation


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


Among the firms that have added the back-up elder care program to their battery of benefits are Paul Hastings, Wilson Sonsini ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Piece of Fake

Jul. 24, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Thanks to a recent federal court decision, protecting intellectual property rights on eBay and similar online auction sites ju...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


The silence of a nervous driver should not be considered implied consent for police to continue an unreasonable search, write ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A House Divided

Jul. 24, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Lenders, homeowners and investors took unprecedented risks, and now the government must look to unprecedented solutions, write...


Law Practice


Panel Rejects Class Status For Meal Breaks

Jul. 24, 2008
By Pat Broderick

The 4th District Court of Appeal on Tuesday struck down class status for about 60,000 California restaurant workers who sued o...


California e-discovery rules are coming. And in the wonky world of civil procedure, technical distinctions have provoked a deb...


Law Practice


Lawyer Arrested in Internet Child Sex Sting

Jul. 24, 2008
By Noah Barronn

Web Exclusive - A West Hollywood lawyer was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted lewd acts on a child a year after he a...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Jul. 23, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Wildman Harrold snags Foley & Lardner media and entertainment chair.


Law Practice


Yolo County deputy sheriffs sparked outrage by locking the courthouse in Woodland during the arraignment of a man suspected of...


Law Practice


Arbitration Bills Making Progress in Congress

Jul. 23, 2008
By Lawrence Hurleyn

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...


Law Practice


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, though a sidecar to the Harley of litigation, is not a legal proceeding. It is a consensual, collaborative, interes...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Troubled Waters

Jul. 23, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

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 ...


Law Practice


Vanessa Wells, who represents insurance companies in California administrative and regulatory matters, jumped from Heller Ehrm...


Law Practice


A South Bay litigator, beachcomber and community figure died last week from liver failure. ...


California Supreme Court


Ruling Boosts Confidential Mediation Talk

Jul. 23, 2008
By Greg Katzn

Mediation communications are inadmissible as evidence even when parties voluntarily discuss them in court, the state Supreme C...


Judicial Profile


Long and Winding Road

Jul. 23, 2008
By Evan George

Entering high school at 12 and law school at 50, Commissioner Elizabeth Munisoglu carved out a unique route from rural New Jer...