WASHINGTON - The future of church-state litigation will remain in turmoil after the Supreme Court issued two conflicting opini...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - "Having a place to live is everything! You can't go to school or work or have a norma...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has come out West. A little more than a year after Hale and Dorr merged ...
Law Practice
Increasingly, Appellate Lawyers Advise at Trials, Laying Appeals Groundwork
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - As an appellate attorney, Robert Wright should be seeing the inside of a courtroom only about three times a year...
Judges and Judiciary
Rehnquist Could Resign During Summer, Making Way for New Chief Justice
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - After a day of major decisions, Chief Justice William Rehnquist left the U.S. Supreme Court building Monday with...
Communications
Court Denies Internet Service Providers' Bid for Cable Access
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Cable companies do not have to give competing Internet service providers open access to their high-speed cable li...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Justices Will Review Ruling Letting Service-Station Owners Sue Oil Firms
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that service station own...
Constitutional Law
Supreme Court Declines to Review Ruling Upholding Contempt Citations Against Journalists
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Staying out of the debate over whether journalists are legally protected from revealing their confidential source...
LOS ANGELES - In a setback for the Los Angeles city attorney's office, a federal judge Monday gave lawyers for the family of ...
Law Practice
Punk-Rock Host of 'Barely Legal' Provides Friendly Savvy
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Sitting below a poster of a topless and tattooed Suicide Girl, entertainment attorney Joe Escalante coolly gives...
LOS ANGELES - A Compton judge must appear before a state appellate court to explain her actions if she continues to block a d...
Intellectual Property
Ruling Drops Curtain on Grokster's Activities
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - As Hollywood crowed and the Silicon Valley grumbled about the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Monday in MG...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a major air pollution settlement between government regulators ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California consumers are free to file class actions in interstate contract disputes despite contrary provisio...
Judges and Judiciary
Chatsworth Judge Encourages Family Atmosphere in Court
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael J. Farrell was born into one of those Irish-Catholic families that hav...
SAN FRANCISCO - An image of the Ten Commandments in the official seal of the highest court in the West appears to be safe - a...
WASHINGTON - In a decision celebrated by the entertainment industry, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that Internet file-sharing...
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California has honored several attorneys for their work in areas suc...
LOS ANGELES - With discontent growing in the professional mediation community, a prominent attorney resigned Wednesday from th...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Event Rentals Inc., doing business as Classic Party Rentals, signed a 10-year, $4.6 million lease for 7...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Restrictions in U.S. Software Contracts Can Hit Euro-Snag
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark Ostrau - Following its expansion last year, the European Union now comprises 25...
SAN FRANCISCO - Old friendships die hard, and for Daniel Deshon, the newest partner of Nixon Peabody's San Francisco office, ...
Corporate
Board Directors Learn Glory and Horror of Regulation, Litigation
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law professor Joseph Grundfest took the opportunity during this year's installment of his annual Dir...
LOS ANGELES - No space in the budget or not enough work for a full-time general counsel? For Michael Oswald and Stuart Blake,...
LOS ANGELES - Rosie O'Donnell's got one so she can share her poetry with the world. Your neighbor's uncle probably has one fo...
LOS ANGELES - Even when Michael Leibovitz was an international tax law partner in Baker & McKenzie's downtown San Diego o...
LOS ANGELES - McDermott Will & Emery snatched litigator Dana Levitt from Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan for its tri...
Family
Panel Chastises Imperial Judge Over His Handling of Juvenile Cases
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in six weeks, a state appeals court has criticized an Imperial Superior Court judge for fai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Is it the State Bar Board of Governors' job to endorse a filmmaker's project, even if it deals with an aspect...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The federal trial of the wrongful-death civil suit stemming from the murder of rap mogul Notorious ...