U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Philip Morris Says Cigarette-Sale Ban Violates Its Free Speech Rights
By Dhyana Levey
Using a novel legal argument, Philip Morris USA said the city of San Francisco violated the tobacco giant's free speech rights...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Health Clinics Pile on Budget Lawsuits Against Governor
By Evan George
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has scribbled outside the legal lines with his blue pencil, according to a lawsuit filed late Wedne...
Law Practice
State Bar Joins Crackdown on Mortgage-Modification Fraud
By Jason W. Armstrong
Efforts to address mortgage modification fraud continued Wednesday with State Bar resignations and Attorney General initiative...
All lawyers should develop a healthy respect for Bryan Garner and "Black's Law Dictionary," writes Jacquelyn Gentry. ...
A prime candidate for increased enforcement is tax collection on income of globally mobile employees, writes Sinead Kelly. ...
A ruling against a Wal-Mart environmental impact report was unprecedented, but shouldn't have come as a surprise, writes Jeffr...
In a quick one-two punch a San Francisco federal judge and a state appellate panel may have dealt a deathblow to the DVD copyi...
Entertainment & Sports
In a First, Talent Agency Licenses With SEC
By Jean Luc Renault
The head of the film finance department at Creative Artists Agency has received a license from the Securities and Exchange Com...
Denis Binder examines the current state of litigation involving lead paint.
4th District Court of Appeals' branch issues tentative rulings, but other courts won't follow suit. ...
Bankruptcy Judge Edward Jellen wants those who appear before him to feel heard as he dispenses justice with efficiency and com...
A Roundup of General Counsels for California's Largest Companies ...
Over the past year, as part of our Corporate Counsel Q&A series, Daily Journal reporters have sat down with more than 60 l...
James Strother, General Counsel, Wells Fargo & Co. ...
Brian E. Cabrera, General Counsel, Synopsys Inc. ...
Arthur Chong, General Counsel of Broadcom ...
James F. Brelsford, General Counsel, SanDisk Corp. ...
It's been a rough economic year and company executives face difficulties with the bottom line. ...
Stephen W. Clark, General Counsel, J. Paul Getty Trust ...
James R. Gilson, General Counsel, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ...
Corporate Counsel
Constitutional Questions and Congressional Cooperation
By Mindy Farabeen
Adine K. Varah, Deputy City Attorney ...
Fredric H. Goldstein, General Counsel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ...
What if on your next visit to say, the Getty Museum, you made a detour into the general counsel's office? What kinds of issues...
The Art of the Company Counsel ...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
More Managed Care Deals Killed in Battle Over Who Pays
By Evan George
Until this spring, Emanuel Medical Center delivered most newborns in its rural, farming town of Turlock. But when the small Ch...
The federal criminal conviction of former plaintiffs' lawyer Bill Lerach has come back to haunt Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman &...
Law Practice
All Pros, No Cons for Innovative Specialty Courts at Symposium
By Don Debenedictisn
A daylong symposium at Chapman University law school in Orange County billed as a pro and con about collaborative courts had t...
America needs a court system that specializes in patent disputes in order to quell the threat of patent trolls, write Mark Kri...
The Federal Circuit's resolution of the written description issue would have a tremendous impact on chemical and biotechnology...
Privacy and information security issues are not new, but mass attention and compliance efforts are at an all time high, Andrew...