SANTA ANA - Former priest John Peter Lenihan has been arrested and charged with 10 felony counts of child molestation, breath...
RIVERSIDE - In a rare foray into state criminal court, controversial civil-rights lawyer Stephen Yagman will defend a mother a...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former DJ-Turned-Mediator Spins Creative Solutions
By Eron Yehuda
If fate had smiled differently on Jack Schwartzman, he could have held the professional title of DJ rather than JD. Schwartzma...
Bay Area software developer Panscopic Corp. has finalized a $10 million second round of financing. New investor Morgenthaler V...
In Closing Column - By Ida Abbott - Performance reviews have an undeserved bad reputation. Most law firms review associates on...
Judges and Judiciary
Newly Retired Orange County Jurist Trains to Run in Boston Marathon
By Mark Cromer
Orange County Superior Court Judge John C. Woolley has retired after 20 years on the bench - a tenure marked by key decisions...
With a budget deficit projected to climb to $35 billion, the Legislature has more to worry about than the immediate needs of t...
Fresh off multimillion-dollar victories in Florida, Arkansas and Mississippi, the plaintiffs' lawyers of Wilkes & McHugh f...
Advisor Column - By Susan Page White - Some jurors have become semi-celebrities in America. They appear on a variety of news p...
Proving that intellectual property litigation is hard to wrap your arms around, a judge in San Francisco ruled last month that...
Two technology companies in Orange County with the same name peacefully co-existed for three decades, until one expanded its b...
Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery acquired intellectual property boutique Campbell & Flores on March 3. The addition o...
Four trademark lawyers and one patent lawyer from recently dissolved Skjerven Morrill have moved, respectively, to Dorsey &...
Mediating major cases, where the damages likely are in the high six- or seven-figure range, is different from mediating smalle...
By John Ryan Count Chicago's Sidley Austin Brown & Wood among the list of firms benefiting from Brobeck, Phleger & Ha...
Keith Bishop has become Los Angeles-based Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger's first corporate partner in its Newport Beac...
An "evolved" intellectual property attorney from Venture Law Group and a patent litigator from dissolved Skjerven Morrill have...
Looking for a diversion from her coursework at Pepperdine University School of Law, Veronica Gray enrolled in a darkroom cours...
Stephen Snyder, Jim Miller, Luther Orton and G. Larry Engel began their careers at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in the 1970...
Daniel Harris remembers a time when computers didn't dominate the landscape and consumers couldn't just bop into any electroni...
Intellectual Property
'Victoria's Secret' Case Illuminates Confusion Over 'Dilution' Definition
By Columnist
Focus Column - By William F. Abrams and Paul E. Thomas - When Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc. , 2003 U.S.Sct.Lexis 1...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and others who entered Department 40 of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Friday mo...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Makes House Calls at Homeless Shelter: A Win-Win Situation
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The small, cramped room in a homeless shelter run by the Emergency Housing Consortium seems an unlikely location fo...
Forum Column - By Dorothy Ehrlich and Sanjeev Bery - The Department of Justice is considering sweeping new legislative proposa...
Law Practice
A Recent Book Recalls the Bad Old Days at Harvard, When Men Were Men and Women Were Ladies
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - When Judith Richards Hope started at Harvard Law School in 1961, her property law professor set aside special...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph F. Biafore is not the sort of jurist who enjoys the limelight. Duri...
Judges and Judiciary
Hitchens' Plan Reasserts Control Over Flow of Cases
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Significant changes are under way in the San Francisco criminal courts, with a new plan to expedite cases and...
Forum Column - By Barbara Schultz - Skid Row has been discovered by loft dwellers, redevelopment boosters and, most recently, ...
Intellectual Property
Invention Record Is Crucial, Even Without Patent Filing
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael J. Sacksteder - When the issue is whether an accused patent infringer came u...
VENTURA - Defense attorney Neil B. Quinn's client is willing to admit to one of the more sensational crimes in recent Ventura...