By Erik Cummins For two guys who began their careers in an employment law boutique, moving to a general-practice firm was "li...
By Toni Vranjes Internet portal Yahoo Inc. is strengthening its position in the highly competitive world of Internet advertis...
By Erik Cummins Charles Donovan left Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis earlier this month for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &am...
By Tina Spee Vincent J. Bartolotta Jr. has been recognized on numerous occasions for the monumental verdicts he has won at tr...
Litigation
Homeowner Battles for Right to Fly Old Glory
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LA QUINTA - Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Richard Birdsall hoisted an A...
By Toni Vranjes British company Autonomy Corp. has agreed to buy struggling software firm Virage Inc. for $25 million in cash...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Environmentalists warn that the state's use of insecticides to kill a pest that spreads the grapevine-kill...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - A bedrock concept in Fourth Amendment law is that, before the police can ...
Forum Column - By John Burton - The Washington, D.C. Circuit's decision in Center for National Security Studies v. United S...
LOS ANGELES - Feuding legal titans Browne Greene and Charles O'Reilly met in court Friday for a hearing on forcing arbitratio...
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, but they may not count. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central Distr...
SAN JOSE - The judge poised to release the first child molester to complete the treatment program outlined in California's Se...
LOS ANGELES - The decades-long battle over cleanup of a Carson landfill long considered a prime spot for a National Football ...
Technology & Science
Looking to Build Nanotech, Burns Doane Makes a Hire
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has recruited nanotechnology legal pioneer Kitu Bindra to join the firm's 15...
When legal-industry strategists decided a global presence was the way to ensure long-term success at the highest levels, U.S....
Ask a law firm to pinpoint its main office location, and you're likely to get some incarnation of the following: "We don't ha...
SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...
Health Care & Hospital Law
No Strict Liability in Transplant Of Tissue
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Suppliers of human tissue for medical procedures cannot be sued for strict liability because they provide a h...
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, while most people limited their thoughts about sex to the physical world, Gary Kremen was fantasizin...
LOS ANGELES - When a dozen federal agents came banging on his door at 7 a.m. with guns drawn and a battering ram, Michael Nguy...
Entertainment & Sports
7th Circuit Splits with 9th on Application of 'Betamax' Case
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - With a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision at the end of June, en...
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - Most people are aware that union membership has been declining for decades. In 2001, the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in a procedural battle that could determine the fate of lawsuits seek...
Judges and Judiciary
Governor Puts Quartet on Los Angeles Bench
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of Santa Monica court commissioner Joseph Shiro Biderman and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has landed an exclusive, two-year deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to handle all of th...
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld three contempt sanctions against a Larkspur criminal defense attorney who...
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit challenging a section of the state Elections Code that requires voters to cast a vote on a recall before...
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Opatmy - Floyd Andrews returned to the San Francisco Hall of Justice this week. But it wasn't ...
SOUTH GATE - Albert T. Robles, the former South Gate city treasurer ousted in a January recall election, has been indicted on ...
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed corporate attorney Randa M. Trapp to a vacant seat on the San Diego Superior Court, ...