Focus Column Litigation By Craig A. Pinedo In the companion cases of Kraus v. Trinity Management Services Inc. , 23 Cal.4th 1...
Law Practice
ABA Probably Will Protest Tribunal Rules for Civilian Lawyers
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association this week probably will come out against Pentagon restrictions on civilian defen...
VICTORVILLE - A high-desert man charged with kidnapping a school district official has accepted a plea agreement rather than ...
Computer chip maker Broadcom has agreed to pay its rival Intel $60 million as part of a settlement of long-running patent dis...
Reporter's Notebook By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutor Nicole Ward and criminal defense attorney Mike Daley were spar...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday turned back another bid to halt Gov. Gray Davis' recall election. ...
WASHINGTON - Beverly Hills civil rights attorney Leo Terrell has quit the NAACP after a dispute with the organization over hi...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's never too late to go back to school - even for a Supreme Court justice. Which might explain why Janice R...
SAN FRANCISCO - When does a lawyer's duty to society override his or her duties to a client? Delegates to the American Bar As...
RIVERSIDE - Brian Kritz, law books and mosquito repellent packed in his suitcase, is a man on a mission. He hopped on a plane...
WASHINGTON - In the wake of Attorney General John Ashcroft's mandate requiring prosecutors to report on federal judges who "d...
SACRAMENTO - Walk too fast through the plaza of the federal courthouse and you could almost miss them: a bear, two eagles, fo...
Intellectual Property
Companies Can Protect Assets With a Strong Patent Portfolio
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Focus Column Intellectual Property By John Carson, Eric Nelson and Nathaniel Durrance A patent portfolio can be the most effe...
Labor/Employment
Interview 'Closing Argument': Making Good Last Impression
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Employment Column By Valerie A. Fontaine Making a good last impression in an interview is almost as important to making a goo...
LOS ANGELES - The petitioner and the respondent sat at the counsel table, clutching tattered folders filled with handwritten ...
Forum Column By Kenneth J. Theisen The U.S. military generally has been subject to environmental-protection laws that were en...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Thursday for courts to modify the sentences of juveniles who commit a...
SAN DIEGO - A former employee in the San Diego office of a foster-care agency was fired because she refused to overlook discr...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court announced Thursday that from now on it will reject habeas corpus pleadings filed by...
SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed a federal prosecutor, two attorneys and a commissioner to fill four vacanci...
SAN FRANCISCO - The lid is off campaign spending in the San Francisco district attorney's race, candidates said Thursday. Tha...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Clerks Vindicate their Boss, William O. Douglas
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't get U.S. District Judge William Alsup started on the recent, critical biography of Supreme Court Justic...
Firm Watch
O'Neill Lysaght Founder Leaves To Head Piper Rudnick Litigation
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Veteran trial lawyer Brian Lysaght is leaving the Santa Monica-based litigation boutique he founded in 1985 to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a dramatic move, the California Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene in the recall election against...
SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann of San Francisco has landed the plum assignment as a lead counsel on the ...
LOS ANGELES - He's not the first Los Angeles police chief to target the scratchy, enigmatic gang-related scribblings that appe...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - We all know that the U.S. military assassinated Uday and Qusai Hussein in a villa in Mosul, ...
Immigration
Counsel Must Attack Designation of Alien's Crime as Aggravated Felony
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Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - Noncitizens inside the United States who commit crimes are at risk of be...
Real Estate/Development
Business Isn't Liable for Injuries Sustained After Rave
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Are all-night dance parties for teenagers, known as "rave" parties, in...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Ruth Graf Urasaki - In the intense media frenzy surrounding the allegations that Kobe Brya...