SAN FRANCISCO - Tanya Neiman, who for almost 25 years pioneered pro bono work in the Bay Area and around the nation and invent...
Law Practice
Finding the Right Vendor Can Be the Toughest Search of All
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Somewhere along the line, Andrew Li, a technical support adviser at Latham & Watkins, made a key realizatio...
LOS ANGELES - Effective ways of presenting evidence unearthed through electronic discovery will be among the topics discussed...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Didier keeps note cards on every case he has tried during his 16-plus...
LOS ANGELES - Over the next two years, total revenues for the electronic discovery and electronic data management industry ar...
Administrative/Regulatory
Acute 'Pellicanoia' Hits Tinseltown Attorneys
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The Hollywood illegal wiretap scandal centering on celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano has spawned a new and...
LOS ANGELES - According to the old saw, money can't buy love - but it can purchase a private judge to preside over a divorce i...
SAN FRANCISCO - White & Case plans to shutter its San Francisco office to focus on its technology and patent litigation pr...
LOS ANGELES - A recent study of litigation trends by Fulbright & Jaworski found that electronic discovery is the No. 1 lit...
LOS ANGELES - With the blessing of the state, some California Indian tribes have built gambling palaces whose profits handsom...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ashford Hospitality Trust purchased the 338-room Pan Pacific San Francisco Hotel from W2001 Pac Realty LLC, a ...
Forum Column - By Stephanie Beckstrom - In an affluent location such as Stanford, there are a thousand lessons for future lawy...
Intellectual Property
Ten Years Later, Damages Trap Continues to Cause Problems
By Columnist
Focus Column - By John T. McNelis - Ten years after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office adopted its 1996 guidelines for exami...
Forum Column - By Margaret Stevenson - In my work as a lawyer, I repeatedly am witness to some of what makes this country grea...
Entertainment & Sports
Limits on Blue Speech at Work Risk Draining Life of All Color
By Columnist
Letter to the Editor - Regarding Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Productions, S125171, the case in which a television-show ...
LOS ANGELES - The Orange County office of Bingham McCutchen just got a little more crowded. In recent weeks, the firm's five ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Martn Sabelli says that right now, 100 percent of his attention is focuse...
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury has awarded a former Oakland police officer nearly $2 million in damages concluding the police departme...
LOS ANGELES - Three months ago, Olympic silver medalist Tanith Belbin didn't know whether she would qualify for the U.S. Olymp...
LOS ANGELES - Gregory G. Gorman and Johnny Darnell Griggs have joined Los Angeles-based Strategic Counsel to launch a litigat...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys representing white men in reverse discrimination lawsuits need to work hard for their money. It took...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Plaintiff Wins Fees for Asbestos Hospital Suit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco hospital already in hot water for exposing visitors and employees to asbestos will have to pay a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco District Attorney's Office announced Friday that a criminal grand jury has refused to indict...
WASHINGTON - Election law will take center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court this week as the justices consider two issues of pr...
LOS ANGELES - When detective-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano emphatically announced his not-guilty plea to charges he ran a ra...
WORK OF FAITH - Julia Ten Eyck's path to becoming a Buddhist has been long and winding - much like her career as an attorney. ...
FREEDOM TO RANT - "Got AIDS Yet?" So reads a T-shirt an evangelical Christian preacher wears to events celebrating tolerance o...
LOS ANGELES - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced Joseph M. Malkin will assume the newly created role of managing par...
RIVERSIDE - Government Properties Trust purchased three two-story office buildings totaling 117,168 square feet, part of the H...
LOS ANGELES - The last time Carlos got out of youth prison he vowed he was not going back. He had been in and out of lockups s...