SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis shocked privacy advocates last week with his veto of a bill that would require bosses to tell wo...

DENVER - Not satisfied with a congressional report that last year recommended against splitting the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...

Watkins' Case Transferred to O.C. SAN BERNARDINO - The criminal case against lawyers James Brian Watkins and his father, John...

Net Knowledge New Technology Leads to Novel Ways of Practicing Law By Ian C. Ballon Practicing Internet and e-commerce law req...

Frequent Flyer By Tamara Scott Once a week, San Francisco lawyer Charles "Chuck" Birenbaum spends one night and two days in L...

Santa Monica Bar To Install Officers Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Victor E. Chavez will serve as keynote speake...

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Samuel Goldwyn Cochran Cherry FORMER O.J. LAWYER MERGES WITH NEW YOR...

Zipping Lips Technology and a fluid job market have increased the chances for rogue employees and contractors to leak confide...

Bear Essentials A tussle over Winnie-the-Pooh could become a big public access battle now that Walt Disney Co. is accused of ...

Beverly Hills Bar Installs Officers Nicholas R. Allis has been installed as president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. O...

By Gerald F. Uelmen Justice Stanley Mosk, who is about to break the record for longevity of service on the California Supreme...

By Jeffrey Anderson In June, Michael Small received a strange letter. The author, writing on behalf of an "anonymous friend,"...

Tech Emergency! An international coalition of law firms battles the Internet Age's borderless vexations. By Leslie A. Gordon ...

^^Land Use Law^^ Uncharted Territory Takings Cases Don't Always Have to Be Tried Before a Jury The court found that where, as...

By Doug Bandow The federal government is now following the states in seeking to extort billions from the tobacco industry. Ci...

Harry Macey , an intellectual property partner at Morrison & Foerster in Palo Alto, is known within his firm as the Bioni...

Wilson Sonsini SOLECTRON MAKES A SMART SELECTION Milpitas-based Solectron, a worldwide electronics manufacturer, recently pur...

Two billion dollars was of little interest to Nevan Elam, associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and counsel for S...

Peak Experience Premium Law Zenith Man The Guardian The Protector Company Man Norman Beegun has spent the 25 years with Zenit...

^^Securities Law^^ By Elizabeth Mann In 1995 Congress enacted the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, 15 U.S.C. Section...

A confirmation hearing on Gov. Gray Davis' judicial appointments to the 2nd District Court of Appeal has been scheduled for N...

SANTA ANA - They thought they were donating the bodies of loved ones to science. But rather than educating a future doctor or...

Catching Fakes Courts May Grant Ex Parte Seizure Orders in Counterfeit Cases By Edward O. Lear Counterfeiting costs all U.S. ...

^^ The Practice ^^ By M.C. Sungaila It's official - George Vogelman did it. He beheaded Susan Robbin (though he was acquitted...

City Settles Police Explorers Case The Santa Monica City Council has approved a $50,000 settlement for a 15-year-old Police E...

Lawyers Reactivate Westside Group A group of Westside lawyers has reactivated the L.A. West chapter of the American Inns of C...

Judges to Model For Fashion Show Women Lawyers of Long Beach will hold its annual fashion show, featuring District Attorney G...

^^Family Law^^ By Erin O'Bryan These ethically challenged bunch of lawyers are at it again, this time getting romantic with c...

Just Reward Pending Legislation Would Protect Compilers of Databases Database providers have expressed their concern that the...

By Kevin M. "Casey" Christensen According to recent articles, there are not only too few judicial positions to handle Califor...