SANTA ANA - In an unusual development in an unusual trial, the former federal prosecutor who put together the massive case aga...
SANTA ANA - A jury awarded a Los Angeles prosecutor $1.5 million Wednesday finding that City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo illegal...
Litigation
Judge Declares Officers' Rights Were Violated in Locker Room
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - What the heck were they thinking? U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips didn't use those precise words. But she...
Commercial Law
Going Once, Going Twice - Patents Going on the Block
By Kevin Livingston
SAN FRANCISCO - Will companies start auctioning their patents on eBay? It's not a likely scenario given the complexity of most...
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling hailed as a major victory for cities over superstores, the Central Valley town of Turlock has prevai...
Pittsburgh-based law firm Reed Smith announced Wednesday that it has signed a letter of intent to merge with Richards Butler, ...
House Speaker Tom DeLay's decision Monday to bow out of politics shocked people on both sides of the political spectrum. Few w...
Echoes of the Boom - Deals surged in California last year, as public companies worked to grow firms and buyout companies put t...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutors took extraordinary steps to protect the anonymity of a jailhouse informant, their st...
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The State Bar is thinking about expanding the classes of members who can vote in electi...
Focus Column - By Michael Mallow - California's unfair competition law, Business and Professions Code Section 17200, et seq., ...
SACRAMENTO - The Westlake Village law firm Masry & Vititoe, made famous by the Oscar-winning movie "Erin Brokovich," could...
LOS ANGELES - No longer can Oakland-based Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson be accused of just tire kicking when it come...
SANTA ANA - One morning, Christopher J. Skorina popped by the law library in the Santa Ana civic center to do a little researc...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Say TV Decision Is Court's, Not Congress'
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Two Supreme Court justices had a message for Congress on Tuesday about a proposal to televise their proceedings: ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carol B. Goodson is adept at dodging the spotlight, but she is far from ...
LOS ANGELES - Jesse Alejo was just looking for a ride. When his friend, Erick Loza, drove up, he was more than happy to jump i...
Intellectual Property
Breaking Intellectual Property's Glass Ceiling
By William Arthur Haynes
Many intellectual property lawyers would concede that women have traditionally been underrepresented in the practice area. Des...
SAN FRANCISCO - A court staffer who blew the whistle on her boss for allegedly steering computer consulting contracts to his r...
SANTA ANA - In January, three sole practitioners in Laguna Beach and San Francisco soundly lost an appeal in a little-noticed ...
Appellate Practice
Knifing a Name-Caller Is Still Murder, Panel Rules
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A murder conviction shouldn't be knocked down to manslaughter just because a man so resented being called a "fag...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two California Supreme Court justices might experience a sense of deja vu during arguments today in a case wit...
LOS ANGELES - Two of the most prominent lawyers at the firm at the center of the wiretapping and racketeering probe of celebri...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide how federal immigration law should treat a legal resident alien wh...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Hollywood director and producer John McTiernan on Monday with a sing...
Juvenile
Legislative Reforms to Help Foster Kids Are Insufficient Without Action
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - When is a change in the law not a change at all? When that change "lives" only on pap...
LOS ANGELES - Betty Broady remembers her husband, Judge Earl C. Broady Sr., as a fair and compassionate jurist. "But the two o...
SAN DIEGO - LabCorp leased a 109,780-square-foot building in the Sabre Springs Business Park at 13112 Evening Creek Drive Sout...
International
'Forum Non Conveniens' Tips on How Court Analyzes Fee Factor
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Bruce Jackson and David Carlson - In the unpublished California Superior Court case Buettner v. Bertelsmann ...
Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - According to G.K. Chesterton, an early 20th century English writer, "Man is most comfo...