Judges and Judiciary
Panel Tosses Drug Conviction, Says Judge Coerced Defendant
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has overturned a drug defendant's conviction, finding that the San Bernardino trial judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ronald M. Sabraw, who earned the esteem of the state's legal community for...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Considers Letting Consumers Sue Phone Firms
By kristinakg@kgmllp.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Taking up one of its most important antitrust cases in years, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday wrestled wit...
As a high-school student, Thomas C. Hendrix dreamed of becoming an Air Force pilot. Instead, he became a Marine tank platoon l...
RIVERSIDE - It supposedly started as an agreement between two rival gangs to "jump out," or beat up, a member so he could leav...
Appellate Practice
On Appeal, Criminal Cases Can Get a Little Weird Sometimes
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors give a judge a birthday gift. A prosecutor refers to a defendant as Dennis the Menace. A drunken driver...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Eclipse, O'Connor Merger Creates Full-Service IP Boutique
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - Sometimes, when firms start looking for a merger partner, they call in consultants, draw up lists of specificati...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Gregory Bergman and Kenneth Moscaret - Imagine this current-day courtroom scenario for a moment. A client is...
SACRAMENTO - Assembly Republican Whip Todd Spitzer said last week that Democrats boxed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger into a corne...
Discipline
Have a Dead Client? Be Careful With Attorney-Client Privilege
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Terence S. Nunan - Most attorneys who deal with the rules of evidence think they have a good intuitive under...
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker announced the opening of a Chicago office. Steve Catlett and Rick Chesley joined the Chi...
Corporate
Tide Turning Against Privilege Waivers for Prosecutors in Corporate Cases
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Jan L. Handzlik - The wave of corporate corruption scandals starting with the 2001 failure of Enron has led...
The Sacramento office of McKenna Long & Aldridge is so new that on a recent afternoon, the receptionist at McKenna's San F...
LOS ANGELES - Grace Reiner, the assistant executive director of the Writers Guild of America West whose expertise on writers' ...
Intellectual Property
Supreme Court Will Consider Altering Obviousness Patent Test
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - It isn't always obvious whether something is obvious - at least not in patent law.
Judges and Judiciary
Complex Litigation Doesn't Faze This Los Angeles Judge
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - As managing judge at Central Civil West, Carolyn B. Kuhl oversees Los Angeles County Superior Court's innovative...
WASHINGTON - Congress could have disqualified U.S. District Court Judge Alcee Hastings from ever holding federal office when h...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eva Paterson may be known for decades of work promoting civil rights, but lately she has been daydreaming of a...
Corporate
Do Not Punish Entire Investigation Trade for HP's Deviant Probe
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Keith Rohman - Politicians, legal experts and journalists have professed to be appalled and scandalized by H...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - I am writing to comment on an article that appeared in the Sept. 15 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Jour...
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Jason A. Weiss - As incidents of harassment, discrimination and retaliation continue to infect the work...
LOS ANGELES - Bruce Karatz, class of '70, has built considerable goodwill at USC's Gould School.
WASHINGTON - It was 20 years ago when Michigan lawmakers, facing a mortgage scandal that saw investors and borrowers lose mill...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who befriended a lonely and isolated zoo chimpanzee can sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture over th...
LOS ANGELES - A Latino group is hoping a recent U.S. Supreme Court will bolster its argument that the district boundaries for ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Matthew C. Mickelson - A true story, except for the name: Cassandra was a senior associate at a medium-sized...
SAN FRANCISCO - The incoming presiding judge of San Francisco County Superior Court has decided that a colleague who sits in t...
As a young university professor in the 1970s, Norman Brand had only fleeting thoughts of a legal education — until he got hims...
SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lawrence G. "Gary" Antolini's refusal in October to bar portions of a NBC pro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Not far from the Central Valley city of Stockton, an ambitious developer wants to create a new community near ...