Intellectual Property
Secondary Liability Expansion Raises Significant Legal Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Lisa A. Freitas - As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to refine the scope of secondar...
Administrative/Regulatory
Google Resolves Dispute With SEC Over Staff Stock Options
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Internet search giant Google Inc. won't pay a penny for charges by regulators that it failed to register more th...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for imprisoned private investigator Anthony Pellicano told a federal appellate panel Thursday that FBI ...
LOS ANGELES - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Thursday filed a federal age-discrimination lawsuit against promi...
LOS ANGELES - Juvenile Court Referee Anthony Trendacosta will replace newly elected Judge Donna Groman as Los Angeles Superior...
LOS ANGELES - On Monday, the Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center will receive a visit from a handful of lawyers and staff mem...
LOS ANGELES - It was the day the young couple had been planning for months. With a packed room behind them to witness this new...
Government
Now U.S. Attorney's Office Tackles 'Pay to Play' Scandal in L.A.
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Shame on local government, success for federal prosecutors. That's one way to sum up 2004, a stellar year for a...
Personal Injury & Torts
Injured Library Patron Settles With County for $300,000
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - A library patron who was rendered unconscious for three days after allegedly being assaulted by a library aide ...
INDUSTRIAL BAKERSFIELD - Rex Martin, Jason Martin and Brett Prather purchased a 5,000-square-foot industrial building on a 43,...
Letter to the Editor - In the Nov. 26, 2004, edition of the Daily Journal on the first page, there was an article concerning a...
Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - All the palaver concerning the CBS News scandal, sometimes referred to as Memogate o...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Lose weight. Recognize inner beauty. Learn employment law. A triumvira...
Appellate Practice
Research Files Find No Takers Among Next Generation of Appellate Lawyers
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Forum Column - By Katherine J. Hamilton - The wall calendar, improvised on the back of December 2004 to avoid investing in a 2...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has opened an office in Taipei, Taiwan, to serve about a dozen existing cl...
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, and his 2000 campaign treasurer have agreed to pay a $6,000 fine by the st...
The clearest consensus that emerged in the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated portions of the U.S. Sentencing Gui...
LOS ANGELES - An explosion of pro-per litigants is the "largest challenge" to the county's judicial system, William MacLaughli...
SANTA ANA - A prominent Santa Ana law firm has been hit with $24,000 in sanctions for filing a frivolous appeal, an unusual ru...
Corporate
Just Shoot Me So I Don't Have to Read More on Taser's Problems
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Taser International, the manufacturer of an electric stun gun that is used by thousands of police a...
INDUSTRIAL CORONA - JLCL Inc. signed a five-year, $809,049 lease for a 25,707-square-foot industrial building at 2420 Railroa...
Environmental
Courts Must Resolve Safety of Former Nuclear Research Site for Public Use
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Forum Column - By Bennett Ramberg - Although the Cold War ended a decade ago, its environmental legacy lives on. How to resolv...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Until she was 7, Jackie lived happily with her mother and grandparents. Grandma took ...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Vasquez' Urges Fact-Specific Examination of Duty, Causes
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Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Recently, the 4th District Court of Appeal provided some important guidance...
Law Practice
Litigator Got State Supreme Court to Speed Its Opinions
By Allison Schifani
LOS ANGELES - A celebration of the life of longtime insurance defense litigator Stanley M. Sapiro will take place later this ...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner in Hayward Keeps Traffic Court Moving
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Professional sporting events have played a pivotal role in Karen Rodrigue's life. In 1974 she skipped the phys...
Administrative/Regulatory
Panel Says Cops Don't Always Have To Knock
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In the movies, the cops usually knock first when they make a home visit. But if the police park outside your ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles and New Orleans police officials arrested a man Tuesday near the French Quarter who was wanted in a ...
RIVERSIDE - A murdered toddler's siblings cannot sue the county Department of Public Social Services for failing to stop their...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday shelved a plan to hand out raises to its members, the distri...