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Intellectual Property


Focus Column - By Sarah M. King - This week, in eBay v. MercExchange, the Supreme Court stepped definitively into the patent r...


Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - Popular cable channel VH1 runs a regular segment called "Best Week Ever," which typically f...


Employment Column - By John A. Vogt - Obtaining summary judgment in defense of a discrimination claim is difficult, to say the...


Appellate Practice


Panel Upholds Post-Marital Pact of Burkles

May 20, 2006
By Leslie Simmonsn

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

May 20, 2006
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...


Employee Benefits


Legal Union Gets Contract With State

May 20, 2006
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a two-year labor contract Thursday with a union representing state lawyers and ...


Real Estate/Development


SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland public-interest group is filing suit today to keep the Federal Emergency Management Agency from cut...


Litigation


In New Economy, Patents Untended Are Assets Wasted

May 20, 2006
By Kevin Livingstonn

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday could drastically change how lower courts handle patent ...


The state's high court concluded Thursday that a former Alameda County prosecutor lied about colluding with a judge to kick Je...


Firm Watch


U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Milberg Weiss

May 20, 2006
By Peter Zuckerman

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


SANTA ANA - Judge Wendy S. Lindley doesn't refer to most of the convicted felons who appear in her court as defendants. To L...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Pro Bono Has 'Benefits Beyond the Heart'

May 19, 2006
By Anat Rubinn

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...


Administrative/Regulatory


Justice With a Smile

May 19, 2006
By Paria Kooklann

Her father was a cook. Her mother was a homemaker. But Dalila Corral Lyons became a judge. When Lyons enrolled at the Univers...


Large Firms


Indictment of Milberg Could Be Imminent

May 19, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - After several days of intense negotiations in Washington, D.C., attorneys working to stave off the indictment of...


Criminal


Jury Rejects Claim Against Ex-Officer

May 19, 2006
By Dennis Opatrnyn

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous federal jury on Wednesday rejected a claim for damages against former San Francisco police officer...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - It's not just fly-by-night bandits who make unauthorized copies of computer software. The Los Angeles County ...


Corporate


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...


Government


Minor Ruling Stirs Suspense In AT&T Case

May 19, 2006
By Amelia Hansen

SAN FRANCISCO_Sometime in the middle of the night last Friday, the federal government asserted the formidable state secrets pr...


Administrative/Regulatory


SAN FRANCISCO - Not long after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, court business in Louisiana and Mississippi struggled...


Firm Watch


SACRAMENTO - Patterson Wheeler, a new lobbying firm, has sprouted near the state's Capitol with a single client: California Bu...


Discipline


Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - At the conclusion of most depositions the table is littered with documents produced by o...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Heather N. Mewes and Darren E. Donnelly - Patentees enter every jury trial with one distinct advantage: an of...


Corporate


AT&T Seeks Closed Courtroom for Hearing

May 18, 2006
By Amelia Hansenn

SAN FRANCISCO - Telecommunications giant AT&T Tuesday asked a federal judge to close his courtroom during the first hearin...


Judges and Judiciary


James Warren Will Leave Bench

May 18, 2006
By Donna Dominon

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren, whose high-profile cases included the same-sex marriage lawsu...


Administrative/Regulatory


LOS ANGELES - Robert B. Taylor liked to jokingly tell friends he was downsizing when he retired from the Los Angeles Police De...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - As their embattled law firm works to stave off a federal indictment, David Bershad and Steven Schulman, two name...


Corporate


Vioxx-Case Defenders Push for Dismissal

May 18, 2006
By Bobbi Murrayn

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


WASHINGTON - Conservative activists vented their frustration Tuesday when the Republican-led Senate rubberstamped the nominati...