FOCUS COLUMN - By Chad J. Levy and Erica S. Alterwitz - Evidence of actual confusion, or the lack thereof, is often the dispos...
FORUM COLUMN - By Joshua Spivak - With California on a post-election political ascendancy, the state Legislature's leaders ar...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Jack W. Morgan. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In his first effort to disband gangs through civil injunctions, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has...
LOS ANGELES - Former Jones Day temporary worker Stephen Heller - considered a whistle-blower by some and a thief by prosecutor...
Judges and Judiciary
Witnesses Say Their Statements Were Works of P.I.'s Fiction
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Private Investigator David Vacca's official account of his work on an Orange County death-penalty case read li...
Technology & Science
L.A. Jury Finds LCD Patents Were Willfully Infringed Upon
By Anna Oberthurn
A federal court jury in Los Angeles awarded a major manufacturer of LCD technology $50 million in damages Tuesday in a patent ...
SACRAMENTO - Hoping to capitalize on some of the prime real estate it owns, the California judiciary is exploring the formatio...
Government
Voters Won't Know Results of Dead DA's Race as Court Calls for New Election
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - From beyond the grave, the late District Attorney Norman Vroman is still shaking up Mendocino County. ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - As we pause this holiday season over our heaping plates of turkey and pumpkin pie, ma...
LOS ANGELES - On the cusp of its merger with Thelen Reid & Priest, Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner lost two m...
Law Practice
Decoding Wedding Announcements to Determine Law-Firm Status
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Mark Steinberg - I am an avid reader of the Sunday New York Times Style Section. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - If you were in downtown Oakland last week, and thought that was Wonder Woman you saw speeding down the block i...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Will Consolidate Its Diversity Panels
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite pleas to save the groups, the State Bar has decided to disband its diversity committees - some of whic...
The California Supreme Court made it easier Monday for parents to justify fleeing with their children if they believe the pare...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Jed Wakefield - Intellectual property cases often require extensive upfront investigation. ...
LOS ANGELES - The wiretapping and conspiracy trial against one-time private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano, high-profile a...
FORUM COLUMN - By Areva Martin - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa did not get a chance to weigh in on the selection of the new super...
LOS ANGELES - George S. Cardona already held two of the top three positions in the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Billion-Dollar Reversal Lets Banks Tap Social Security Funds
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Banks can dip into customers' directly deposited Social Security income to cover bounced checks, a state appel...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Boot Camp Separates Survivors From Fainthearted
By Victoria Fine
LOS ANGELES - Howrey summer associates spend three weeks being wined and dined at offices across the country. Then comes boot ...
Individual Internet users and providers may not be sued for posting libelous material that was written by someone else, a unan...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Opposes Using Uncorroborated Testimony From Informants
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - California should bar uncorroborated testimony by a jailhouse informant from being used to convict a criminal de...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Will Sequel Be 'Terminator 2' or 'Independence Day'?
By Contributor
The Bar Exam results are out, and you're not on the list. Being punched in the gut would feel better than this. ...