LOS ANGELES - Nortel will sell its blade-server switch business to a new company as the Canadian telecommunications equipment ...
LOS ANGELES - As the Internet slowly eclipses everything from traditional bank statements to newspapers, attorneys are cashin...
LOS ANGELES - After 22 years of civil litigation, newly appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dorothy B. Reyes now...
Civil Rights
For Civil Rights Lawyer, Early Inspiration from Coretta King
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Obie Scott, father of the late, great Coretta Scott King, was known to brag, after it was...
Intellectual Property
U.S. Law Goes Extraterritorial With Circuit's Patent Rulings
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Gary Shapiro - Recent high-profile infringement cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...
Government
Domestic Spying Could Lead to Detention Camps for Citizens Bush Deems Suspicious
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was called before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week...
SAN FRANCISCO - The long-shot effort by two former utility regulators to keep alive their opposition to a deal that helped Pac...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills ophthalmologist, who had accused one of the nation's most prominent law firms of ruining his car...
LOS ANGELES - Remember the color-coding system for rating the nation's vulnerability to terrorist attack? Well, some defense a...
Intellectual Property
Pole Dancing Copyright Is Another Test for IP Laws
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - In a small, dimly lit room in San Francisco, eight women take turns twisting around two floor-to-ceiling poles...
SAN DIEGO - The state must seize a display-rack company's equipment to ensure payment of at least $390,000 in wages owed to i...
COURT OKS BIG DIG - The city of Santa Clarita has lost its decades-long battle to stop the building of a nearby 56.1 million t...
SACRAMENTO - Last month, former state Attorney General John Van de Kamp was named chairman of a commission studying the way Ca...
LOS ANGELES - BlackRock Realty purchased Museum Gardens, an 84,891-square-foot, Class A mixed-use property at 5353 Wilshire Bl...
From the Blogs - SoCal jurist Alex Kozinski in classic form [Feb. 1] on the 9th Circuit. If someone ever asks why he should be...
Letter to the Editor - A commentary in the Feb. 8 Daily Journal ("Californians Need to Constrain Harshness of Three-Strikes La...
Judges and Judiciary
Veteran Manager Will Take Over Region of Courts
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Administrative Office of the Courts veteran Jody Patel was named administrative director for the northern/cent...
Focus Column - By Tazamisha H. Imara - On Dec. 27, 2005, the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia certified as a class action...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Just when you thought it might be slowing down. Just when you thought that the near-univ...
LOS ANGELES - On stage, Gerald M. Murphy goes by "Butch," a guitar-playing, wisecracking character who performs with the band...
LOS ANGELES - Intellectual property litigator James E. Doroshow has joined Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer is in jail after a judge called him an extortionist, held him in contempt of court and or...
Judges and Judiciary
After Decade, Court Allows Judge to Practice Law Again
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years after booting a judge from the bench and yanking her bar card for dishonest and immoral behavior, th...
Firm Watch
Lawyer Goes Down the Block to Develop Her Financial Practice
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - "I went not even a block," Sandra Lee Montgomery said of her move to Bingham McCutchen's Los Angeles offices fro...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Admonishes Judge Who Silenced and Detained Lawyer
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - The state Commission on Judicial Performance has publicly admonished a Los Angeles Superior Court judge for, amo...
LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Brad M. Fox's first stop each morning is the Torrance Annex Court located behind the Southwest Dist...
Appellate Practice
Hastings Professor Goes to McDermott Appellate Practice
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutor, professor, and now - big-firm litigator. Rory K. Little had exactly what McDermott Will &a...
Judges and Judiciary
From His Father's Footstool To the State Appellate Bench
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - There appears to be a judicial gene in the family of William R. McGuiness. His father, William J. McGuiness, b...
LOS ANGELES - Recent salary increases have left law-firm associates feeling fat and happy. But don't expect corporate general ...
LOS ANGELES - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker announced that Ken Krug will join the firm as a partner in the firm's real...