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...
SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly 10 years of presiding over murders and other high-stakes cases, Laurel Brady may soon face the bi...
WILLOWS - In 1994, when Glenn County Fair officials needed to replace the official steer "weigh master" following a controvers...
Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - If the California Legislature drafted a statute authorizing Superior Court judges to rewrite t...
Focus Column - By John J. Manier - Under a recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, an employer may violate the Amer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Paul P. Burdick to a seat on the Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Thur...
Environmental
Panel Upholds State's Plans to Protect Delta's Water Quality
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeals court Thursday upheld major elements of the state's plans for protecting water quality in the ...
LOS ANGELES - A San Jose jury has awarded $700,000 to the family of a child with Asperger's syndrome who claimed she was abuse...
SAN FRANCISCO - A day after Dewey Ballantine came within one partner of losing its Silicon Valley office, the New York firm wa...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Is Entertainment Law's 'Elder Statesman'
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Lou Meisinger has spent years around Mickey Mouse and dozens of characters beloved by children. But Meisinger's ...