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Intellectual Property


Milk and Cookies

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

The Federal Trade Commission has promulgated rules for the use of children's personal information on the Internet. ...


Probate


RIVERSIDE - Three attorneys appointed to help the alleged victims of the Riverside County conservatorship fraud recover some o...


Litigation


Doctor Know

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Since the enactment of the Civil Discovery Act of 1986, California attorneys have questioned whether Code of Civil Procedure S...


Entertainment & Sports


On 'Law & Order' this week, the world is a strange, unrecognizable place - inside and outside the courtroom. ...


Entertainment & Sports


Jimmy Berluti on 'The Practice' suggests using the diminished-capacity/social-deviant theory utilized by the Reginald Denny-be...


Litigation


Tying Up Loose Ends

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Attorneys who do not vet even the most renowned expert and closely supervise preparation risk alienating the fact finder. ...


Criminal


By Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg As we have dusted off our keyboards and realized our computers still work, Americans...


Entertainment & Sports


Just because Amy Gray's a lawyer and a judge doesn't make her immune from behaving like the parents she sees in her courtroom....


Intellectual Property


Beneficial Collaboration

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

According to data for 1998 released by the Association of University Technology Managers, $24 billion from public and private ...


Litigation


Techno Talkers

Jan. 22, 2000
By Mark Blumberg

Attorney Susan van Keulen believes she was in the right place and right time based solely on geography and timeliness. In 1988...


Criminal


Judge Issues Order to Parole Board

Jan. 22, 2000
By Michael Harris

Judge Issues Order To Parole Board In the latest chapter in the legal showdown over the parole of a convicted killer, a judge ...


Environmental


Logging Giant Won't Recover Its Defense Costs

Jan. 22, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned back once and for all an attempt by Pacific Lumber Co. to obtain nearly $700...


Litigation


The Sun Also Rises

Jan. 22, 2000
By Mark Blumberg

When Cleveland attorney Alan J. Ross stood before a jury in Sunrise Telecom Inc. v. Electrodata Inc., he mounted a three-prong...


Public Interest


Trading on Traditional Teachings

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Many of the pressing ethical and legal issues that are front-burner today were painstakingly and lovingly considered by Jewish...


Entertainment & Sports


Ally McBeal has an epiphany this week that John Cage is 'The One.' ...


Litigation


Walkie Squalkie

Jan. 22, 2000
By Mark Blumberg

In summer 1997, Sunrise Telecom Inc. co-founder Robert C. Pfeiffer attended the annual SuperComm conference in New Orleans exp...


Litigation


Learning by Example

Jan. 22, 2000
By Mark Blumberg

It was one of those rare discussions in chambers that David W. Rudy says still makes him shudder. ...


Government


Lambda Sues for Access to Reports

Jan. 22, 2000
By Lauren Bartlett

Lambda Sues for Access to Reports The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund sued the city of Los Angeles Thursday for allege...


Law Practice


Blinder Vision

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

The 2nd Appellate District issued a surprising opinion last year in State Compensation Insurance Fund v. WPS, Inc ., 70 Cal.Ap...


Litigation


A 16-year-old breach of contract case appears to have come to an end with the awarding of about $8.9 million to a pharmacist w...


Law Practice


VENTURA - As Riverside County's new public defender reorganizes the troubled office and hires on a new top-level management te...


Law Practice


New Challenge to Bar Classes Faces Rejection

Jan. 22, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court appeared inclined Thursday to reject a lingering challenge to the state's mandatory conti...


Entertainment & Sports


The Eye Finds Vertigo and Gen X at the Ivy

Jan. 22, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The January nights were warm and itchy. The Eye was on the roam for action. First stop, Ivy at the Shore. There sat Larry Stei...


Judges and Judiciary


Inch by Inch, Step by Step

Jan. 22, 2000
By Denise Levin

With the passage of unification, Los Angeles County is at the brink of becoming the largest trial court in the nation. First,...


Litigation


State Supreme Court Grants Review for Gun Case

Jan. 22, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for gun makers, the state Supreme Court said Wednesday it will review the nation's first court d...


Judges and Judiciary


Compton Court Clerk Sues for Harassment

Jan. 22, 2000
By Denise Levin

Fed up with the ogling of two court custodians, "as if she were a piece of meat," a Compton Municipal Court deputy clerk went...


Entertainment & Sports


'Family Law's' Holt & Associates gains a lawyer and loses an assistant this week when Viveca Foster, Lynn Holt's secretary...


Law Practice


GOVERNMENT

Jan. 21, 2000
By Amy Bentley

VENTURA - As Riverside County's new public defender reorganizes the troubled office and hires a new top-level management team,...


Judges and Judiciary


GOVERNMENT

Jan. 21, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - A major liberal advocacy group lashed out at a group of Republican senators Thursday for threatening to shut down...


Large Firms


Newport Beach Firm Gets Partners

Jan. 21, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Newport Beach Firm Gets Partners Patent and intellectual-property litigators Edward F. O'Connor and Jan P. Weir have joined Ne...