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Litigation


Focus Column - By Judith A. Rosenberg - State and federal courts are increasingly using monitors to assist with oversight of s...


Law Practice


Forum Column - By Daniel Wolk - A few months ago, having survived what Scott Turow once called the "wholesale drama" of a lega...


Technology & Science


Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar - A boy or a girl? Now parents can decide. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine recently...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - On Friday, Oct. 28, at 12:40 p.m., the same hour that Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indic...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Ethics commissioners split with their own investigators Tuesday and fined City Councilman Jack ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Novartis Will Buy Chiron

Nov. 10, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - With concern over a potential bird-flu pandemic on the rise, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis announced it...


Investments


Once Burned, Internet Investors Aren't Shy Now

Nov. 10, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - For the first time since the dot-com bust, venture capital investments in Internet companies are surging in wha...


Labor/Employment


Store Employee Withdraws Harassment Suit

Nov. 10, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A former branch-store manager of the popular Los Angeles-based clothing manufacturer American Apparel voluntaril...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Finds Conflict in Judge's Tie to Witness

Nov. 10, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A convicted murderer will get to ask a new judge for a new trial after successfully disqualifying the first judg...


Product Liability


SAN FRANCISCO - One of the nation's former top health officials Tuesday ripped a state-proposed warning that would advise cons...


Corporate


LOS ANGELES - Television networks could face a slew of lawsuits from cable channels claiming breach of contract now that NBC ...


Public Interest


LOS ANGELES - This week, four South Los Angeles tenants took their landlord to court, accusing him of a series of violations d...


Labor/Employment


Appeals Panel Wins and Loses At High Court

Nov. 10, 2005
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won one and lost one Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, with the just...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Deals

Nov. 9, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

LOS ANGELES - Autonomy Corp., whose software helps businesses keep track of data, agreed to buy competitor Verity Inc. for $50...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Will Review Bush Tribunals

Nov. 9, 2005
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether President Bush has the authority to establish militar...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Nov. 8

Nov. 9, 2005
By Jack Briggs

INDUSTRIAL CORONA - Star Pipe Products purchased a 110,752-square-foot industrial building at 1223 Sherborn St. for $8.4 milli...


Focus Column - By Thomas C. Klein - In September, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 439, which amends the Californ...


Immigration


Forum Cloumn - By Richard Mac Bride - A few months ago, on the morning of July 26, federal authorities raided the Petit Jean P...


Family


Letter to the Editor - The collective well-thought-out, reasoned and articulate response by Paul J. Fink, Judge Sol Gothard an...


Juvenile


Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - The Select Committee on Special Issues, a bipartisan committee led by Assemblyman Mervyn D...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge in San Luis Obispo Gathers Admirers

Nov. 9, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

SAN LUIS OBISPO - When Gov. Gray Davis appointed Judge Charles Stevens "Steve" Crandall to the San Luis Obispo County Superior...


Corporate


LOS ANGELES - The Internet file sharing outfit Grokster Ltd., in a surprise announcement Tuesday, said it would pay $50 milli...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Richard A. Foxx, a prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer and co-founder of the American Board of Trial Advocates, ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Exporting the Wisdom of Mediation

Nov. 9, 2005
By Eron Yehuda

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles neutral Lee Jay Berman recently returned from India with a bronze statute of Buddha, a symbol of kno...


Immigration


Chinese Christian Gets 2nd Chance at Asylum

Nov. 9, 2005
By Robert Selna

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has overturned an immigration judge's denial of asylum to a Chinese Christian, saying th...


Firm Watch


E-commerce Expert Moves To Greenberg

Nov. 9, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Ian Ballon, a leading commentator on the intersection of Internet, entertainment and intellectual property la...


LOS ANGELES - Flamboyant Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman caused a stir last week when he declared that surgery should be enliste...


Appellate Practice


Briefly

Nov. 8, 2005
By Amelia Hansen

THREATS POSE NO CONFLICT - You can still get a fair trial in Los Angeles even if you threaten a trio of judges, a federal appe...


Criminal


Lawyers Ask Judge to Save Inmate Law Library

Nov. 8, 2005
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Attorneys on Friday asked a federal judge to block a growing trend in which county jails are closing their law lib...


Firm Watch


The Great American Wine-Tasting Kit

Nov. 8, 2005
By Amy Spees

SAN FRANCISCO - John Bullock left San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass in 2002 in pursuit of writing the great Ame...