The California Bankruptcy Forum honored 17 judges at its annual conference held in Rancho Mirage May 16-18. The U.S. Bankruptc...
In December, an Australian court ruled that a local businessman could sue U.S.-based publisher Dow Jones & Co. in Australi...
Column - Intellectual Property - By Reese Pecot - Changes are afoot for trademark practitioners. On Nov. 2, the U.S. Patent &a...
The saga continues for a San Jose couple that wanted to get a good deal on a car four years ago. In 1999, Trini and Ramon Chav...
LOS ANGELES - Tough guys don't cry. Though Albert Joseph Garcia promotes a tough-guy image, he doesn't quite fit the adage. Th...
A Los Angeles-based film company won a five-year legal battle over rights to Soviet-era animated films produced before the fal...
For Matt Kirmayer, it was all about location. "For what I do, San Francisco is the center of the world," says Kirmayer, a corp...
The nation's largest online real estate advertising service is challenging the constitutionality of California regulations tha...
A $132 million jury verdict was music to the ears of independent record company TVT Records. TVT won its legal battle against ...
World Savings Bank has defeated all claims in a suit brought by a homeowner who purchased one of its properties. Los Angeles S...
One of medicine's great challenges is finding new, more efficient ways to deliver drugs into the body. The traditional methods...
A Berkeley family lawyer has developed a Web site that allows him to practice law from the Internet. Robert Kroll dreams of di...
Buyers of Best Buy products, beware, a lawsuit suggests. A class action filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges Microsoft ...
Column - Trial Strategy - By Kirk A. Pasich - The closing argument in a punitive damages case is an argument unto itself. Beca...
Among the 10,000 people expected at yesterday's Orange County AIDS Walk at the University of California, Irvine, was Ken Babco...
Commercial Law
Understanding of History of Contract Interpretation Can Benefit Attorneys
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Focus Column - Business Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - "A page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v...
When Marshall Grossman and Larry Stein decided to merge their firms in 1999, the pundits wondered how the two attorneys would ...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that a person in extremis who is questioned by poli...
Focus Column - Securities Law - By Thomas C. Klein - Enron, Global Crossing and many other companies are embroiled in securiti...
SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday ordered the manufacturer of a diet aid linked to the death of a baseball player to pay consumers...
LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Dorothy L. Shubin's former colleagues at the U.S. attorney's office used to joke she was so...
Forum Column - By V.M. Raguz - The Bush administration has determined how it will protect U.S. citizens from potential politic...
Forum Column - By David D. Caron - Amid discussions about ending the U.N. sanctions on Iraq, there also is talk of forgiving s...
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - A deadly disease originates in China, where it is misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Public-...
Entertainment & Sports
'Grokster' Court Holds Some File-Sharing Systems Are Legal
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - The online music industry is undergoing another period of rapid an...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel may use the case of two former prison guards convicted of orchestrating inmate ...
LOS ANGELES - A judge has dismissed misdemeanor criminal charges for the second time against a man beaten into a coma last sum...
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group attorneys, suspended from practicing law for allegedly misusing the state's unfair-competition ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney G. Grant Gifford has died in Los Angeles following an illness. He was 58. Gifford, who died April 27, w...
LOS ANGELES - A judge's order that San Diego and San Bernardino priest sex-abuse lawsuits must be combined with similar mass l...