Litigation
Olson Joins Team Representing Burst.com in Antitrust Lawsuit
By Stefanie Knapp
Douglas Olson of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison announced July 24 that he has joined Spencer Hosie of Hosie Frost Large &...
Litigation
Preston Gates Patent Litigators Get Dismissal in WebGain Case
By Stefanie Knapp
A team of patent litigators at San Francisco's Preston Gates & Ellis wrangled a dismissal on behalf of WebGain Inc. in a p...
While the remaining 80 attorneys at dissolving Lyon & Lyon scatter to find new homes, the New York office is fast at work ...
High-tech giant Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara has acquired Afara Websystems Inc., a privately held San Jose company tha...
Column by Stephen P. Milner and Dennis McNally - Undoubtedly, most auditors are not involved in any sort of conspiracy with th...
On a cold, wintry night in February 2000, 18-year-old Michelle O'Keefe returned to the Antelope Valley after a glamorous day i...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Clara auction house has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle claims it is responsible for a hom...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys are raising alarms about another tire manufactured by Bridgestone/Firestone, despite a vote of confide...
LOS ANGELES - Former members of an Orange County law firm cannot be sued for fraud for taking partnership draws from their fai...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Internal Revenue Service practice of going after individual partners to collect the unpaid taxes assessed ...
Security company IntelliSec and several affiliates have selected Los Angeles-based Irell & Manella to represent them in th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati told associates gathered for a town hall meeting earlier this month that ...
Focus Column - By William E. Simpson - The epidemic of accounting abuses by corporations has shaken investors' confidence in t...
RIVERSIDE - A new girl has come forward and accused Alejandro Avila of molesting her before his arrest in the sexual abuse and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired Vernon Winters, a patent litigation partner with the San Francisco office...
SACRAMENTO - Doors open and close. Names hang in the air a few seconds and fade, replaced by more names. A blur of orange jump...
SAN DIEGO - Jurors ended their second day of deliberations Friday without reaching a decision in the trial of David A. Westerf...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remains the busiest appellate court in the country, with appeals filed i...
Forum Column - By Mark Kozlowski - The battles over the Senate's consideration of President Bush's judicial nominees continue ...
Judges and Judiciary
Citizen Detainees Should Have Lawyers, ABA Says
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association has plunged into the heart of controversies over the legal side of the war on terror...
Focus Column - By William L. Winslow - Structured settlements that use annuity-funded periodic payments are now a regular fea...
LOS ANGELES - It's a big room with a jungle-safari theme - and it's packed with stuffed animals, toys, books and all the color...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has promoted three Los Angeles-area court commissioners to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench:...
SAN FRANCISCO - One month before President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate responsibility, lawyers at Gray Car...
SAN FRANCISCO - Siding with landlords, a federal judge has held that a disabled tenant cannot insist on keeping his pit bull a...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has sued the county in a dispute over his retirement pay. Judge Abraha...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Finds His Magistrate Experience Perfect Training
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers who have appeared before George H. King say that he is the ideal U.S. District Court judge and a prime e...
Insurance
Fraud on One Part of Insurance Claim Will Void Whole Claim
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - By Michael M. Pollak - An insured gives his insurance company a phony receipt. The rest of his claim is valid. ...
LOS ANGELES - Religious and prison authorities, including the former director of the California state prison system, asked the...
Forum Column - By Beong-Soo Kim - Many greeted the Supreme Court's decision last term striking down a Minnesota rule prohibiti...