Litigation
Acts Speak Louder, but Words Can Be Evidence of Prostitution
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A gesture here, a word or two there. Put together, it's enough to convict a person of prostitution, the 2nd Dist...
LOS ANGELES - Two more partners have left Buchalter Nemer, bringing to five the number of partners that have parted ways with ...
Judges and Judiciary
Transactions Specialist Tapped For 9th Circuit
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Torrance-based transactions attorney Milan D. Smith Jr. is the second moderate Republican President George W. Bus...
SANTA ANA - Former Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Lynn Magnandonovan claims she was simply a hard-charging prosecutor out to...
LOS ANGELES - There are two ways to look at Wednesday's federal indictment of leading Los Angeles lawyer Terry Christensen and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Those dour stuffed donkeys adorning U.S. Immigration Judge Dana Leigh Marks' San Francisco chambers aren't the...
Intellectual Property
Fluidity of Test Factors Makes Trademark Cases Hard to Pin
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robert S. Gerber and Nathaniel Bruno - Trademark infringement, the hallmark of which is the "likelihood of c...
Forum Column - By Michael W. Shonafelt - Wireless technologies have taken their place as the sine qua non of communication at ...
Education
Inland Empire Gets First Accredited Law School
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
ONTARIO - University of La Verne College of Law has secured provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association, boos...
SAN FRANCISCO - A deal last year to slap a chain newspaper's name on a legendary San Francisco theater's marquee did not go do...
Appellate Practice
U.S. Case Against Asylum-Seeker Meets Skeptical 9th Circuit Panel
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel Tuesday suggested that U.S. immigration authorities are badly confused about the diffe...
Criminal
Critic Wonder About Lawyers And Affidavits
By Sandra Hernandez And Anat Rubin
LOS ANGELES - As death-row inmate Michael Morales' clemency petition continues to unravel, some legal observers are asking how...
LOS ANGELES - Nortel will sell its blade-server switch business to a new company as the Canadian telecommunications equipment ...
LOS ANGELES - As the Internet slowly eclipses everything from traditional bank statements to newspapers, attorneys are cashin...
LOS ANGELES - After 22 years of civil litigation, newly appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dorothy B. Reyes now...
Civil Rights
For Civil Rights Lawyer, Early Inspiration from Coretta King
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Obie Scott, father of the late, great Coretta Scott King, was known to brag, after it was...
Intellectual Property
U.S. Law Goes Extraterritorial With Circuit's Patent Rulings
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Gary Shapiro - Recent high-profile infringement cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...
Government
Domestic Spying Could Lead to Detention Camps for Citizens Bush Deems Suspicious
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was called before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week...
SAN FRANCISCO - The long-shot effort by two former utility regulators to keep alive their opposition to a deal that helped Pac...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills ophthalmologist, who had accused one of the nation's most prominent law firms of ruining his car...
LOS ANGELES - Remember the color-coding system for rating the nation's vulnerability to terrorist attack? Well, some defense a...
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...