Two electronics companies are in heated litigation over six patents for computer and television screens - and according to one...
Five years ago, Stacy Phillips and Carole Handler bumped into each other while visiting a popular Los Angeles salon. While wai...
Riverside's Best Best & Krieger added its first environmental law attorney to its San Diego outpost with the hire of partn...
Stephen Venable Jr., an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Century City office, recently shared a piece of Olympic glo...
Firm Watch
Prosecutor Will Test Her Mettle at Ironman Triathlon
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
As a contestant on the hugely popular CBS reality show "Survivor," Deena Bennett gulped exotic bugs, sliced through the dense ...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - The courts have been busy since this spring's landmark Supreme Court rul...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - To the inexperienced practitioner, legal...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - How would you feel if you were picked up from your office this evening, or from your ...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Last week the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling on a case that will have far-reaching impli...
WASHINGTON - Although the current Supreme Court justices have been together for 10 terms - a modern record - they haven't sett...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Just a few decades ago, the cast of characters was largely the same in courthouse hallways acros...
Appellate Practice
High Court Continues to Focus Its Attention on the 9th Circuit
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After decades of taking a heavy pounding from the Supreme Court, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike a lot of lawyers and jurists, Contra Costa County Commissioner Stephen Houghton has always led a full a...
LOS ANGELES - After a Los Angeles policeman was videotaped beating a suspected car thief with a flashlight, Mayor James K. Hah...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant blow to dozens of former employees, partners and retired partners of Brobeck, Phleger & H...
Real Estate/Development
Historic Preservation Agendas Need to Be Tempered by Reality
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Explaining the recent denial of a land developer's request to rezone property so it coul...
Employment Column - By Sylvia Marks-Barnett - Is horseplay in the workplace tolerable? One arbitrator-created definition for h...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By James D. Nguyen and Michael B. Moore - Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to terminate a bo...
LOS ANGELES - Peter Rosen, a lead attorney in the federal-court battle between World Trade Center leaseholders and insurance c...
A state appellate court Thursday struck down a 2002 San Diego ballot initiative that required a two-thirds vote for any new ta...
A nonbiological mother can claim to be the parent of a child in a same-sex marriage if the woman is viewed as the "presumed fa...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Who Filed Controversial Lawsuit Seeks Disability Retirement
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Walter L. Blackwell III, the San Bernardino County judge who drew fire for a vitriolic lawsuit he filed ear...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors and Los Angeles police officials are investigating officers involved in the June 19 flashlight beati...
LOS ANGELES - In a rare ruling that defies both controlling case law and state statutes, an appellate court has reversed a def...
SAN FRANCISCO - The victim of an accidental shooting hopes the state attorney general's opposition to the sale of a gun compan...
SACRAMENTO - Bankers who lost a legal challenge to California's landmark consumer-privacy law say they will appeal a federal j...
Criminal
Melons or Rocks? Bakewell's Fruit Frenzy Won't Make Political Pie of Flashlight Furor
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Here's a suggestion for the latest furor surrounding the Los Angeles Police Department. Everybody in ...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento federal Judge Morrison England has been on the bench less than two years. But he already has a promine...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for two men accused of assault in the "Fajitagate" case that initially involved low-level cops and e...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Anaheim police officer who claims he was hounded out of his job for reporting misconduct by other officers ...