Intellectual Property
Court Tackles Patent Reform, Pulling Law Toward Mainstream
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Sarah M. King - This week, in eBay v. MercExchange, the Supreme Court stepped definitively into the patent r...
Litigation
Court Cuts Through Years of Misguided Confusion About 'Probate Exception'
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - Popular cable channel VH1 runs a regular segment called "Best Week Ever," which typically f...
Labor/Employment
'Inappropriate Comparator' Defense Can Be Undoing of Discrimination Suits
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By John A. Vogt - Obtaining summary judgment in defense of a discrimination claim is difficult, to say the...
Billionaire investor Ron Burkle has fought to keep his high-profile divorce from the public eye, but on Thursday, an appellate...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Finding Out What Matters - Besides Money
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - A popping sound came from the boys' bathroom. Moments later, a 15-year old boy emerged, spraying more bullets in...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a two-year labor contract Thursday with a union representing state lawyers and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland public-interest group is filing suit today to keep the Federal Emergency Management Agency from cut...
SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday could drastically change how lower courts handle patent ...
Criminal
Top Court Finds No Conspiracy Against Jews - Just a Lying Ex-DA
By Itir Yakarn
The state's high court concluded Thursday that a former Alameda County prosecutor lied about colluding with a judge to kick Je...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday charged one of the world's most successful class action firms, M...
Judicial Profile
Distinguished Jurist of the Year Crusades for Special Courts
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Judge Wendy S. Lindley doesn't refer to most of the convicted felons who appear in her court as defendants. To L...
LOS ANGELES - When a federal judge told Los Angeles County it could not close a rehabilitation center providing specialized me...
Federal Court rulings from March 2006 created conflicts of authority on important issues affecting businesses and government o...
Her father was a cook. Her mother was a homemaker. But Dalila Corral Lyons became a judge. When Lyons enrolled at the Univers...
LOS ANGELES - After several days of intense negotiations in Washington, D.C., attorneys working to stave off the indictment of...
SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous federal jury on Wednesday rejected a claim for damages against former San Francisco police officer...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not just fly-by-night bandits who make unauthorized copies of computer software. The Los Angeles County ...
Pepsi, apparently, goes down easier than Coke. At least that's the implication from the Coca-Cola Co.'s feisty reaction to a ...
LOS ANGELES - Paramount Pictures chief Brad Grey has asked a judge to stay a movie producer's suit seeking to add him as a def...
SAN FRANCISCO_Sometime in the middle of the night last Friday, the federal government asserted the formidable state secrets pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Not long after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, court business in Louisiana and Mississippi struggled...
Firm Watch
Pair of Lobbyists See Their New Firm Take Root Near the Capitol
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - Patterson Wheeler, a new lobbying firm, has sprouted near the state's Capitol with a single client: California Bu...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - At the conclusion of most depositions the table is littered with documents produced by o...
Intellectual Property
Video Explaining Patent Office to Jury Is Flawed But Helpful
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - Heather N. Mewes and Darren E. Donnelly - Patentees enter every jury trial with one distinct advantage: an of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Telecommunications giant AT&T Tuesday asked a federal judge to close his courtroom during the first hearin...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren, whose high-profile cases included the same-sex marriage lawsu...
Administrative/Regulatory
New Probation Chief Envisions Model for Reform
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Robert B. Taylor liked to jokingly tell friends he was downsizing when he retired from the Los Angeles Police De...
Law Practice
Partners Take Leave, Trying to Draw Prosecutor's Eye From Milberg
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - As their embattled law firm works to stave off a federal indictment, David Bershad and Steven Schulman, two name...
LOS ANGELES-One of two Vioxx cases that appeared headed for consolidation into one liability trial in Los Angeles could be dis...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Goes Easy on Moderate, to Annoyance of Conservatives
By Peter Blumberg
WASHINGTON - Conservative activists vented their frustration Tuesday when the Republican-led Senate rubberstamped the nominati...