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Technology & Science


Patent Co. Sues HTC and YouMail

Apr. 28, 2010
By Jill Redhage

Klausner Technologies Inc. on Monday amended an infringement lawsuit it filed in November in federal court in the Eastern Dist...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Launches Settlement Program

Apr. 28, 2010
By Rebecca U. Cho

The Los Angeles Superior Court has created a new settlement program to lighten the burden that trial courts are feeling and li...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Appeals Court Clears Patent Litigators

Apr. 28, 2010
By Craig Anderson

Two Silicon Valley patent litigation stars escaped a black cloud Monday after a federal appeals court panel concluded that a C...


U.S. Supreme Court


Jailed L.A. Lawyer Must Stay Put

Apr. 28, 2010
By Lawrence Hurleyn

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to order the release of disbarred Los Angeles attorney Richard I. Fine, who has been ja...


Entertainment & Sports


Court to Mull Video Game Violence

Apr. 28, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to review a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors sets the...


U.S. Supreme Court


Arguing Arbitration Enforcement

Apr. 28, 2010
By Lawrence Hurleyn

Touching on a primordial issue of arbitration law, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday weighed whether federal courts or arbitrators...


Intellectual Property


Ranks of IP Prosecutors to Increase

Apr. 28, 2010
By Robert Iafolla

The Justice Department will send new federal prosecutors and FBI agents to California dedicated to combating intellectual prop...


Perspective


Diane Uchimiya of the University of La Verne College of Law says the new Arizona immigration bill undermines federal law, enda...


Lisa Angelo of Murchison & Cumming addresses the debate over whether written witness statements are protected by the work ...


Perspective


Justice John Paul Stevens' Automythology

Apr. 28, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Joerg Knipprath of Southwestern Law School challenges Justice John Paul Stevens' self-invention as a rock steady conservative ...


Perspective


Tyler Ochoa of Santa Clara University School of Law writes in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Statute of Anne, the first...


Perspective


Jeffrey Freedman of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore examines a New Jersey Supreme Court decision finding that a company violated its ...


Labor/Employment


Arbitration Review by Courts Expands

Apr. 28, 2010
By Laura Ernden

Ruling in favor of employees who allege they were discriminated against, a sharply divided California Supreme Court on Monday ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


By the slimmest of margins, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday approved certification of the nation's biggest-eve...


Judicial Profile


James A. Kaddo

Apr. 28, 2010
By Pat Alston

James A. Kaddo of the Superior Court in Van Nuys always gives attorneys time to present their case.


Entertainment & Sports


Law Impedes Documentarians

Apr. 27, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

Over the last decade, documentary filmmakers say a section of copyright law has impeded a crucial component of their work: the...


Environmental


Utilities Reach Settlements

Apr. 27, 2010
By Pat Broderick

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday approved two settlements resolving its investigations into the Witch, Rice...


Criminal


D.A. Responds to Backlash

Apr. 27, 2010
By Dhyana Levey

As the scandal over the handling of evidence at a crime laboratory here snowballs, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harr...


Perspective


Mastering the New Conduct Credits Law

Apr. 27, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Mark Willman of the Los Angeles Superior Court provides an in-depth review of how conduct custody credit is earned and calcula...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Lawyer Group Wants Respect

Apr. 27, 2010
By Pat Broderick

Brian P. Funk, the new president of the San Diego Criminal Defense Bar Association, would like to burnish the image of defense...


Solo and Small Firms


Building Byte by Byte

Apr. 27, 2010
By Susan Mcraen

Gerald L. Sauer and Eve H. Wagner credit their ease starting a litigation boutique to being on the cusp of the technological r...


Law Practice


Trial Lawyers Roll Out the Red Carpet

Apr. 27, 2010
By Dhyana Levey

After being nominated four times, Michael A. Kelly of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger was named Trial Lawyer of the ...


Perspective


William Brian Jr. and Nathaniel Parker of K&L Gates explain why time is of the essence for preserving the value of develop...


Perspective


Putting Plaintiffs on the Defense

Apr. 27, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

One of the most difficult things to stomach in the legal profession is watching defendants bear the burden of meritless lawsui...


Books


The Legal Profession Under Investigation

Apr. 27, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

In the sequel to his legal bestseller of 1996 entitled "The Future of Law," Richard Susskin explores the extent to which the r...


Corporate Counsel


Tom McGuire

Apr. 27, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

Tom McGuire, Acting General Counsel and Head of Business Affairs of William Morris EndeavorBeverly Hills, Calif. ...


Perspective


Max Factor III of PMA and Alice Graham of Graham Law Corp. discuss three common public policy reasons for the expansive eviden...


Government


Study: CCMS Lacks Cost Controls

Apr. 27, 2010
By Greg Kanen

The state's top technology official has recommended that the Administrative Office of the Courts develop detailed spending and...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Council Rejects Proposal

Apr. 27, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

The Judicial Council on Friday shot down a request by Los Angeles court administrators to tap into court construction funds to...


Securities


Maxim CFO Liable In Securities Fraud Case

Apr. 27, 2010
By Craig Anderson

A former chief financial officer of a Sunnyvale-based technology company was found liable for securities fraud and other count...