Entertainment & Sports
Pooh's New Lawyers Suggest Children's Character Trial of Century
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The plaintiffs' new legal team in the high-profile Winnie the Pooh royalty case reportedly will inclu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hemorrhaging money as a result of falling advertising revenue and high staff costs, the San Francisco Chronicl...
Law Practice
Reporter's Notebook: Adachi Says Filing System Is a Virtual Fossil
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi wants to operate a paperless office one day and is starting by destroying old misd...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ralph Baxter wants to get personal with his firm's marketing campaign, so for the first time in recent memory,...
Judges and Judiciary
Presiding Judge's Re-Election Is First in 40 Years
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - For the first time in four decades, the presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court was re-elected, givin...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided Monday that the court has no jurisdiction over a legal dispute over o...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - In Chavez v. Martinez , the U.S. Supreme Court was presented with a golden opportunit...
Column - Legal Technology - By Linda G. Sharp and Michele C.S. Lange - The terms "electronic evidence," "e-discovery" and "com...
A tented reception in downtown Los Angeles' Music Center Plaza raised the curtain on the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law'...
A family operated maker of Christmas tree stands stood up to Home Depot, the nation's largest home improvement retailer, and w...
Ten major Wall Street firms have agreed to settle conflict-of-interest charges for $1.4 billion, but investors still are fumin...
Don't expect to see flashy but vacuous ads coming out of Morrison & Foerster's marketing department any time soon, says Ke...
Column - Litigation Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - Jurors are more forgiving of lay witnesses than of any other participants...
San Diego continues to show its strength as a center of biotech activity. Santarus Inc. has raised $51 million in a fourth rou...
Intellectual property litigator Louis Bovasso has joined the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig, the firm announced in Ma...
As Told By Pierce O'Donnell - The Daily Journal has discovered additional tape recordings of secret interrogations conducted 5...
Technology & Science
Typing Into the Future: Tiny Laptop Has Big-Time Appeal
By Contributing Writer
Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - I'm home when I get this call. "Paul, there's a big - and I mean big - package t...
A little-known Web site is now big news, thanks to Barbra Streisand. The California Coastal Records Project Web site displays ...
The U.S. government is partially responsible for the deaths of four intoxicated teenagers who crashed in a car after attending...
After spending 23 years as an executive in the entertainment industry, Fred Bernstein, a former president of Columbia TriStar ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Hostile Takeover Bid Interrupts Billion-Dollar Software Merger
By Toni Vranjes
Earlier this month, PeopleSoft Inc. agreed to buy J.D. Edwards & Co. in a $1.7 billion deal that would create the world's ...
In February, Alan Blankenheimer and a handful of lawyers joined Boston's Fish & Richardson from Phoenix's Brown & Bain...
Column - Business Development - By Karen Kaplowitz - You want to be a rainmaker. Where do speaking and writing fit in your gam...
Myra Pasek spent 2-1/2 years in charge of litigation at Santa Clara's Affymetrix Inc. Managing patent disputes over the firm's...
The legal battle between two of the biggest stars in the amateur telescope universe rages on. In 2001, Meade Instruments Corp....
A week after closing offices in Palo Alto and Newport Beach, the partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly were still cons...
Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has lured a big shot intellectual property lawyer to its offices there...
RAINMAKERS - The economy on the rebound? At the very least business must be good for California law firms. According to our so...
When Kenneth Chiate graduated from Columbia Law School in 1966, he was sure he'd spend the rest of his career with the same gr...
San Diego's Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson has added a veteran litigator to its ranks. Bruce Bailey joined last month fr...