Digital technology and the Internet are creating a new breed of intellectual property litigants, says Jennifer Granick, execut...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco may be the first to decide the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortio...
Actor Lou Ferrigno, best known for his role as "The Incredible Hulk," and his wife Carla had a not-so-incredible experience in...
Five corporate attorneys have left their positions at indigenous San Diego firm Procopio Cory to join the local outposts of Lo...
SANTA ANA - Exactly how much is a cozy lap dance or a naked lady serving you juice worth? Bill Gammoh for one has been willing...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Awards $168,240 to Kin of Woman Shot by Police
By Eron Yehuda
A jury recently awarded the family of a mentally ill woman $168,240 after finding three Long Beach officers negligent in her s...
Lauren L. Stevens, a patent lawyer with a doctorate in organic chemistry, last month joined the Palo Alto office of intellectu...
San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss has hired Jeffrey Wortman to serve as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former Drummer Controls Rhythm When He Mediates
By Eron Yehuda
As a professional drummer in the early 1980s, Michael R. Diliberto took cues from other band members on when to join in and wh...
Litigation
Principles of War Apply as Well to Courtroom Battles
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By Byron W. Cooper - Many parallels have been drawn between war and litigation. Both require leaders...
Technology transactions partner Glenn Nash has left Cooley Godward to join the Menlo Park office of Latham & Watkins. Nash...
During his days in law school, Bill Hunter says, he used to complain that going into patent law wouldn't give him opportunitie...
Forum Column - By David Wood - Surf through the how-to tips on MarthaStewart.com and you'll notice a common thread. Whether th...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - Rajiv P. Patel - Patents deployed for strategic business purposes in a licensing or lit...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
ERISA Doesn't Pre-empt State Suits Seeking Reimbursement
By Columnist
Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Harvey L. Rochman and Joanna S. McCallum - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals surprised...
SAN FRANCISCO - Terry Francke, the Sacramento lawyer who long championed freedom of the press as general counsel at the Califo...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has issued a preliminary injunction banning 86 men accused of being members of a southeast San Diego crimi...
Appellate Practice
Panel Rebukes Judge for Tossing Suit After Lawyer Stole File
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - In a sharply worded opinion, a state appellate court has rebuked an Orange County judge for throwing out a busin...
WASHINGTON - The light- and dark-green amicus briefs in the Supreme Court's first cases assessing the constitutionality of the...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the men convicted of kidnapping a busload of children outside Chowchilla in 1976 appears to have suffer...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Urges Accommodation of Jewish Test Takers
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Under pressure from outraged state Assembly members, State Bar leaders on Friday issued a broad resolution calli...
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an Orange County sheriff's deputy can be sued for allege...
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers in the offices of San Diego County's public defender and alternate public defender have begun receiving no...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Jury trials, as any judge knows, are fraught with pitfalls. As the Tyco corporate...
SAN FRANCISCO - One threatened to jump off the Bay Bridge, snarling traffic for 13 hours, and the other is accused of killing ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Thursday threw out a closely watched lawsuit filed by a Boalt Hall student to recover a ...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Lorelei Westin and Al Halluin - "Nanotechnology" is a word used by many but actually...
Near Cua Viet, 1967 An old woman knelt Weeping her son Into the earth. "Mother, who did this?" "Men," she said. ...
Forum Column - By Robert A. Pugsley - On April 5, the state Supreme Court upheld a basic principle of criminal law, which unju...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - During her testimony before the Sept. 11 commission, National Security Advisor Condo...