Entertainment & Sports
TV CONTRACT BATTLES JUST ANOTHER L.A. SUMMER RITE
By Contributing Writer
Summertime is rife for TV contract disputes. This year the supporting casts of "The West Wing" and "Becker" caused the firewor...
Despite mass layoffs at Cooley Godward , the firm's San Diego lawyers have decided they need more elbow room. Cooley leased ne...
In 1993, the Legislature established the Unified Program for the purpose of consolidating and coordinating the implementation ...
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Wilson Sonsini: SOLECTRON AGREES TO TRADE SHARES WITH CANADIAN FIRM
By Tanya Rothman
Solectron Corp. has agreed to merge with Montreal's C-MAC Industries Inc. in a $2.7 billion stock swap. Solectron, based in Mi...
A party who voluntarily cleans up is barred from pursuing a CERCLA action if that party is not already a defendant or the subj...
Twenty-three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered the famous decision in Regents of the University of California v. B...
Litigation
Courts Can Serve as Force for Change, Reno Tells Attorneys
By Don De Benedictis
ANAHEIM - Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told a group of female lawyers Thursday that courts can be "one of the great...
SAN FRANCISCO - After 25 years as a French professor at Columbia University, Susan Tiefenbrun recently moved from New York to ...
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Greene Radovsky: MADERA POWER GETS A JOLT FROM NEW PLANT PURCHASE
By Tanya Rothman
Madera Power of Firebaugh has bought a 28-megawatt power plant from San Joaquin Valley Energy Partners and relaunched the faci...
International
Double-Jeopardy Rule Could End in Britain, Barrister Says
By Don De Benedictis
ANAHEIM - The British government has proposed some remarkable changes in the criminal justice system, including getting rid of...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Albert Lee Stephens Jr., who was named to the federal bench in Los Angeles in 1961, died Thursday while on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The extremely limited judicial review of binding arbitration decisions has forced Southern California Gas Co. ...
Government
Plan Tries to Cut Latino Political Clout, Voting Challenge Alleges
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - On behalf of a coalition of Latino and Asian organizations, a voting-rights expert has filed a challenge with th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The story of California's unhappy relationship with MTBE is now unfolding in state courtrooms in a remarkable ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With a judicial stroke of the pen, the 17-year-old federal mandatory minimum sentencing law has been tossed on...
Solo and Small Firms
Widow Loses Saveri & Saveri Family Feud Over Old Fees
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The widow of a San Francisco litigator is not entitled to half the fees from cases he worked on, a judge has r...
Entertainment & Sports
Prayer for a Field Goal Is Now a Prayer to the Court
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - The wonders of TiVo Inc.'s "personal television services" have been promoted aggressively in commercials that tout ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Responding to a rising number of church- and cross-burnings, attacks against gays and racially motivated murd...
We probably all have known someone who left a job only to wish later that he or she had never made the move. We probably also ...
What if that opportunity arose that would allow you to stop being an attorney and start a new career? What would happen if the...
Here's some advice for Americans who are shocked, horrified - and perhaps even a bit puzzled - by the recent surge of shark at...
Almost six months ago, California experienced school shootings in San Diego. At Santana High School, two students were killed ...
LOS ANGELES - A new computer crimes section was created in the U.S. attorney's office to prosecute high-technology and intelle...
Solo and Small Firms
Southern California Patent Attorney Dies at 83
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Keith D. Beecher, a prominent patent attorney who, during a 40-year career, handled trademark claims for many up...
The 9th Circuit's ruling raises several interesting issues regarding carpal-tunnel injuries and the role of computers in today...
Cash flow is the most important financial variable of businesses of all types and sizes, including law firms. Delinquent accou...
SAN FRANCISCO - The union representing San Francisco's municipal lawyers now has the power to endorse political candidates and...
Government
Family of Man Killed By Officers Files Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The family of a man shot and killed by Pomona police officers earlier this year is claiming in a federal lawsuit t...
SANTA ANA - Orange County jurors are expected to begin deliberations early next week in the civil trial brought by alumni and ...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would increase workers' compensation benefits easily cleared its last hurdle in the Legislature on Th...