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...

Memorial services will be held today for Long Beach trial lawyer Robert H. Lund. Lund died Saturday following a long battle w...

SAN DIEGO - The first witness testifying in a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination and retaliation against a former dep...

A joint committee of Los Angeles Municipal and Superior Court judges late Wednesday released its answers to many of the probl...

DENVER - To help decide if a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the murder of JonBennet Ramsey, Colorado G...

SAN DIEGO - Robert C. Baxley's first literary critic was his court reporter. "She laughed," the judge recalled of that fall d...

A San Diego County judge was publicly admonished Thursday by state judicial disciplinary authorities for abusing her contempt...

SAN DIEGO - A former Navy commander who allegedly killed his wife of 48 years with drugs and carbon monoxide in what was firs...

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan Senate Judiciary subcommittee - not the Republican special task force first envisioned several week...

Assured by court leaders that complex cases will not get stuck with judges who can't handle them, trustees of the Los Angeles...

Three months before Jan. 1, 2000, predictions are cheap commodities. Still, it's hard to find anyone willing to hazard a gues...

MARTINEZ - Few lawyers in Contra Costa County have represented clients with the same zest for battle as David C. Coleman III....

SANTA ANA - Former Orange County District Attorney Michael R. Capizzi has announced that he will run for a Superior Court jud...

Making his first judicial appointments since becoming governor 10 months ago, Gray Davis announced Thursday the elevation of ...

^^Law & Order^^ By J. Conboy The consistently talented writers of "Law and Order" may have set a new series record by acc...