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Firm Watch


Munger Tolles Taps Internet Law Expert

Apr. 7, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Munger Tolles & Olson has added renowned legal scholar Lawrence Lessig to its 150-attorney rost...


Technology & Science


Web Site Spotlights Wacky Inventions That Flopped

Apr. 7, 2001
By Contributing Writer

In these days when biotechnology and high-tech companies live and die based on the breadth of their intellectual property port...


Civil Rights


Climbing to Educational Equality

Apr. 7, 2001
By Columnist

Affirmative action has been back in the news and the subject of talk shows and student demonstrations since University of Cali...


Law Practice


Members of the criminal-defense profession have long recognized the extraordinary achievements of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Harold "Hal" Rosenberg, Van Nuys criminal defense attorney and former president of...


Intellectual Property


Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has dropped its appeal of a case it brought against an Irvine-based manufacturer...


Litigation


Courtroom Karma

Apr. 7, 2001
By Columnist

Every weekday, with the exception of election-snafu litigation, which seems to flourish on the weekends, many of us litigators...


Intellectual Property


Name Game

Apr. 7, 2001
By Columnist

Merely possessing a registered trademark no longer will secure a domain name incorporating the mark. ...


Litigation


The motion to strike, a small but powerful cross-examination tool, too often is ignored by trial counsel. ...


Law Practice


Energy Crisis Mobilizes Legal System

Apr. 7, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - The state's energy crisis has not yet translated to higher bills or crippling blackouts for the county's legal t...


Criminal


Ex-Prosecutors Join Watchdog Agency

Apr. 7, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Two former assistant U.S. attorneys have joined the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners' civilian watchdog...


Criminal


Murder Case Goes Back to Juvie Court

Apr. 7, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Two teen-agers indicted as adults in the May killing of a Glendale High School athlete will return to Juvenile C...


Personal Injury & Torts


Uninsured Motorists Cannot Sue Cities

Apr. 7, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Injured motorists who are uninsured cannot collect pain-and-suffering damages from cities and counties for ne...


Litigation


Teen-agers Sue MTV Over Fecal Spraying

Apr. 7, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - In a lawsuit filed Thursday against the entertainment channel, the girls, represented by attorney Gloria Allred,...


LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Thursday awarded $64.5 million to an Anaheim defense contractor that claimed its business partner...


Entertainment & Sports


Internet media titan Yahoo! Inc. of Santa Clara announced Thursday that it is getting into the often-murky world of online dig...


Intellectual Property


Man or Nature?

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to review the patentability of seeds and other living things.


Labor/Employment


Privacy Probe

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Throughout the nation, drug testing has become increasingly prevalent in recent years as employers seek additional protection ...


Investments


Taking Stock

Apr. 6, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

At one time dot-com executives were shelling out company shares like it was Monopoly money, and lawyers were gobbling them up....


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's "No. 1 love" is not the law - it's opera. The justice proclaimed her passion in a r...


Criminal


Marco is a thief. Marco is a doper. Amazing how that combination seems to run together. With a habit to feed that runs to a $1...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Illegal Split

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Imagine that your client contemplates entering into an industrial or commercial lease for which the leased premises constitute...


Real Estate/Development


Beware!

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Warnings can discharge the duty of those who control property to deal responsibly with foreseeable third-party crime. ...


Litigation


Group Sues Businesses Over Junk Faxes

Apr. 6, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to terminate junk faxing, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has sued Arnold Schwarzen...


Judges and Judiciary


Legal Appeal

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Well, the Girl Scout cookie sale is over. Since the cookies were equally fresh and identically priced, which little girl got y...


Labor/Employment


Key to Justice

Apr. 6, 2001
By Columnist

Before the opinion of the Court of Appeal in Weeks v. Baker & McKenzie, 63 Cal.App.4th 1128 (1998), the plaintiffs'...


Insurance


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Edwin C. Amos Jr., retired senior trial attorney at Woodland Hills' Chernow & ...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Feuer wants to turn the city attorney's office into a 400-lawyer public-interes...


Criminal


Salvadoran Immigrant Wins Appeal

Apr. 6, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Joe Fernandez, the Salvadoran widower who has battled deportation since 1996, has won an appeal to have his case...


Litigation


Former Paralegal Sues Attorney for Expenses

Apr. 6, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A former paralegal for Herbert Hafif has filed suit against the Claremont attorney seeking compensation for year...