REDDING - An icy wind slashing directly from the nearby snow-covered slopes of the Trinity Alps discourages loitering outside ...
On March 28, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most significant case to date on the limits of President Bush'...
Intellectual Property
Companies Need to Establish Trade-Secrets Protection Plan
By Columnist
Historically, intellectual property assets such as trade secrets have been viewed as enhancing a company's competitive advanta...
Large Firms
Cooley Recruit Will Launch Real Estate Practice in San Diego
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Cooley Godward has recruited Michael Levinson to launch a real estate practice in its San Diego office. Levinso...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for veteran Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jean E. Matusinka. ...
Civil Rights
S.F. Securities Litigator Moves to Sheppard's L.A. Office
By Anna Oberthurn
Securities litigator John Stigi III has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Los Angeles office as a partner after...
SAN FRANCISCO - House Speaker Tom DeLay's decision last Monday to bow out of politics shocked people on both sides of the poli...
Litigation
76,000-Word Appeal Held Up as Everything a Brief Should Not Be
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - "This is an appeal run amok." So begins a 46-page appellate court ruling that castigates a Sacramento attorney...
LOS ANGELES - Patent attorney R. Michael Ananian has moved his practice to the Menlo Park office of Perkins Coie. He joined th...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal reporter Peter Zuckerman has won one of journalism's highest awards for a series of ar...
Law Practice
Losing Law Firm in Proposition 65 'Bounty Hunters' Case Proclaims Victory in Defeat
By Dennis Pfaff
How can a law firm turn a slam-dunk defeat into a victory? By saying so, perhaps. ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Banjo Player Allows Note of Humor in Courtroom
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Silence is rare in Superior Court Judge Richard W. Lyman's Long Beach courtroom. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for five gang members are asking a Los Angeles federal judge to decide whether a race-based murder is ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with environmental groups by committing the Environmenta...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lots of attorneys write books. Think of Scott Turow and Steve Martini, who became household names through thei...
LOS ANGELES - A co-defendant of celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano pleaded guilty Friday to a charge that he hired the sl...
LOS ANGELES - The months-long runup to the California Vioxx trials could reach a turning point today with a Los Angeles County...
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has acquired Reed Intellectual Property Law Group, a Palo Alto-based boutique ...
LOS ANGELES - GE Real Estate provided $130 million in financing for a Class A, 1 million-square-foot office/retail building at...
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has come up with a new take on "three strikes, you're out" - allowing suspected ...
Education
Critics Fear Bill's Affect on Unaccredited Law SchoolsRaising School Standards Has Downside, for Some
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Chris Clay, a consultant to the state Assembly's Insurance Committee, considers his license to practice law "a...
Government
After It All, President Bush Did Win the 2000 Election
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor I read with humor the Daily Journal's March 27 column by Marianne Means ("Roberts' Sharp Words Give a Ta...
Forum Column By Natasha Minsker "I will never forget the face of the man who threatened to kill my baby." Those were the word...
Letter to the Editor In Georgia v. Randolph , 126 S.Ct. 413 (March 22, 2006), the U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled that the ...
Corporate
U.S. Judge Tosses Shareholders' Class Suit Against Perot Systems
By Peter Zuckerman
Perot Systems Corp. has won a class action brought by shareholders alleging that stock prices dropped because the company cons...
Even Los Angeles County Superior Court judges get sick sometimes. And when they do, traffic court must still go on. Unlawful d...
LOS ANGELES - Robert A. Holtzman would be the first to admit that a strict interpretation of the law doesn't always yield desi...
Appellate Practice
L.A. Judge Erred in Penalizing Defendant for Lawyer's Actions
By Leslie Simmons
A Los Angeles judge was wrong to punish a civil fraud defendant with a $1.3 million default judgment just because his attorne...
How can a law firm turn a slam-dunk defeat into a victory? By saying so, perhaps. When lawyers with Los Angeles' Jeffer, Mang...
Entertainment & Sports
High Court Call: Schools Aren't Liable if Pitchers Aim for Head
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - If you're hurt in a college sporting event and believe the school's negligence led to your injury, you can sue...