SAN FRANCISCO - Inmates in San Francisco's county jails have discovered a scam that tricks criminal defense attorneys into pay...
Personal Injury & Torts
Impact Litigation Lives: It Still Has a Significant, Useful Role to Play
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Forum Column - By Jack Londen - Reflecting on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education raises a question. Ha...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Inconsequential' Accord Prioritizes Facilities, Ignores Issue of Class Size
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Forum Column - By Daniel Moulthrop - If there's a teacher in San Francisco who ought to be pleased about the Williams v. Ca...
Appellate Practice
High Court Should Support Hawaii's Use of Takings Clause
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Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - Accusations that courts are "Lochner-izing" are bandied about so casually these ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Adapt Preliminary Hearing in Arbitration to Help All Parties
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - A recent trend in larger commercial arbitrations is deve...
SAN FRANCISCO - Reed Smith has hired two partners for its San Francisco office, one a former managing partner at Preston, Gate...
SANTA ANA - A lawyer who rose to national prominence suing on behalf of couples who claimed that a fertility clinic sold their...
Civil Rights
Gay Couple in Orange County Sues in Federal Court to Marry
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Shunning a coordinated effort by nonprofits to challenge the state's ban on gay marriage, an Orange County coupl...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - One of the most troubling aspects of California's three-strikes sentencing law is how it is used ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just one week before the start of trial, Air Force prosecutors have acknowledged that nearly all of the docume...
Optical networking component giant JDS Uniphase Corp. has purchased Advanced Digital Optics Inc., a Westlake Village-based mak...
Intellectual Property
Meade Instruments and Celestron Settle Patent Battle
By Amy Spees
A galactic patent battle between two telescope manufacturers has ended in a settlement. Meade Instruments Corp. and Celestron ...
Patent litigation partner John Giust has jumped from Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich to intellectual property boutique Fish &...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Contact Lens Giants Cooper, Ocular Sciences Merge
By Megan Thorpe
The Cooper Companies Inc. and Ocular Sciences Inc. announced an agreement for Cooper to acquire Ocular Sciences in a stock and...
Law Practice
Bohm Francis Absorbs GBX Law, Establishes Santa Monica Outpost
By Lorelei Laird
The Costa Mesa firm of Bohm, Francis, Kegel & Aguilera expanded into the Los Angeles area with the opening of a new Santa ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The ability of long-distance airline travelers who develop blood clots during flights to seek compensation fro...
Column - Closer - By Frank X. Curci - The technology industry has come to rely heavily on standards to bring new technology an...
Patent litigator and partner Terry Kearney left Fish & Neave in Palo Alto last month to join Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &...
A former Riverside commissioner alleges in a lawsuit that two male judges, one of whom was the court's presiding judge at the ...
LOS ANGELES - Just in case visitors to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bob T. Hight's chambers in the Torrance Courthouse som...
Column - Trial Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - Most clients are nervous to some degree when taking the stand. After all, it's...
Firm Watch
Preston Gates Lawyer Is Mysterious Figure in Living-Art Spectacle
By Tina Spee
Night after night this summer, Irvine corporate lawyer David Perry donned a crushed, paint-speckled muslin jacket and climbed ...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Denise doesn't seem like a typical foster kid - she is a slender, vivacious college s...
Labor/Employment
Employers Don't Have to Defer To Workers' Political Expression
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Travis P. Brennan - At the water cooler, Phil from the file room e...
SAN DIEGO - At the request of District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a judge on Friday dismissed charges against a San Diego man wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Farmers Insurance Group has agreed to pay about $210 million to end a long-running dispute with thousands of i...
SAN FRANCISCO - John E. Cantwell, a long-time labor attorney, died at his home in Walnut Creek following a long illness. He wa...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Draeger Martinez - With pollsters split on whether George W. Bush or John Kerry will win the ...
SAN DIEGO - A pistol-packing district attorney's investigator out for some off-road fun claims in an unusual federal lawsuit t...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has given Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony until Nov. 5 to submit to a deposition by attorne...