LOS ANGELES - As soon as juvenile law attorney L. Ernestine Fields began to realize her dream of providing every foster kid in...
Intellectual Property
To Receive Damages, Link Lost Profits to Infringement
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Donald M. Gindy - In a long-running squabble with Timex Corp., Montana-based film co...
Public Interest
Public-Interest Pledge May Keep Law Students on Right Path
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Forum Column - By Paul Von Blum - In a few days, the fall quarter at UCLA begins and, with it, a new season for the law-school...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the government's recent agreement to release another American-born "enemy combatant," the lawyer for Jo...
LOS ANGELES - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. remained hospitalized Tuesday at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was u...
SAN FRANCISCO - Barbara Hou is beginning her second year on the idyllic, leafy campus at the University of Michigan Law School...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ross Nadel, chief of the criminal division under U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan, stepped down abruptly Tuesday from ...
LOS ANGELES - It's been a few years now since legal experts tackled the questions of what the definition of the word "is" is. ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Malibu Will Appeal Ruling on Development Plan
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - The Malibu City Council decided late Monday to take its fight against the state Coastal Commission to the state ...
Law Practice
Not All Law Clerks Can Justify Spilling Confidential Data
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - The October issue of Vanity Fair has set off a fascinating quarrel among law clerks over how much...
SAN FRANCISCO - California can tax tobacco companies to fund the state's forceful anti-smoking advertising campaigns, a divide...
SAN FRANCISCO - Capping a federal effort to break up a violent Hispanic prison gang, eight members of the Nuestra Familia gang...
LOS ANGELES - When the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Courthouse opened in 1992, it was hailed as a haven for abused and neglect...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - If they happened elsewhere, we might call them violations of human rights. But these ...
Entertainment & Sports
'Grosso' Helps Hollywood Writers, Upholds Implied Contract
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Forum Column - By Yakub Hazzard and Jonathan E. Stern - Now that wasn't so hard after all. Thanks to the recent 9th U.S. Circu...
Focus Column - International Law - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson and Peter J. Engstrom - In China National Metal Products Import/...
SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Barbara County winegrowers wanted to create a new appellation and give it the historic name of their cor...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that gives victims of child sex abuse more time to file civil claims...
LOS ANGELES - A panel at the world's highest court for sport heard testimony Monday from U.S. gymnast Paul Hamm and his South ...
SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court ruled Monday that a former prosecutor possibly doesn't have absolute immunity from a civ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has ordered Pacific Lumber Co. and the state to pay more than $6 million in fees and expenses to the a...
LOS ANGELES - A grand jury indictment allowing prosecutors to forgo a preliminary hearing in the murder case against Phil Spec...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has suspended 1,221 California lawyers for not paying their 2004 State Bar dues, the bar...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jailed Witness Delays Trial of Notorious B.I.G. Wrongful-Death Lawsuit
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - If you have been holding your breath for the start in Los Angeles federal district court next week of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Several prominent nonprofit groups have complained to the California Supreme Court that a July appellate rulin...
Solo and Small Firms
Appellate Specialist Moves To Develop Practice Group
By Lorelei Laird
Appellate specialist James Friedhofer recently jumped from downtown San Diego's Correll, Garchie & Edwards to Hatch & ...
A recent appellate opinion calls into question the strength of the autonomy enjoyed by American Indian tribes when confronted ...
Solo and Small Firms
San Diego Employment Boutique Opens Outpost in San Bernardino
By Lorelei Laird
San Diego employment boutique Trovillion Inveiss Ponticello & Demakis has branched out with opening of a San Bernardino of...
Dennis Herrera didn't realize what he was creating when he gave Mayor Gavin Newsom the go-ahead to conduct marriages for same-...
Technology & Science
Domain Ruler ICANN Wins First Round Against VeriSign
By Amy Spees
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a global nonprofit that regulates Internet space and accredits agenci...