California's medical marijuana law covers pot users on the go, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Corporate
Short Week Turns Out to Be Long on Deals, Setting Another Record
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - Last week, the thinkable happened: The record for the largest leveraged buyout in history fell - ag...
Firm Watch
Escutia Will Join Manatt Next Year to Focus on State, U.S. Government Issues
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Sen. Martha Escutia, who became the first woman to head both the state Senate and the state Assembly Judiciary co...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Thank you for the kind words in your article in Judicial Spotlight ("Thinking for Himself," Oct. 18).
Environmental
Railroads Head to Court Over Regional Pollution Standards
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit that could determine the extent to which regional regulators can control railroad pollution, a major...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer abruptly changed his position Monday to say the state's new sex-offender law app...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Tosses Drug Conviction, Says Judge Coerced Defendant
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has overturned a drug defendant's conviction, finding that the San Bernardino trial judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ronald M. Sabraw, who earned the esteem of the state's legal community for...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Considers Letting Consumers Sue Phone Firms
By kristinakg@kgmllp.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Taking up one of its most important antitrust cases in years, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday wrestled wit...
As a high-school student, Thomas C. Hendrix dreamed of becoming an Air Force pilot. Instead, he became a Marine tank platoon l...
RIVERSIDE - It supposedly started as an agreement between two rival gangs to "jump out," or beat up, a member so he could leav...
Appellate Practice
On Appeal, Criminal Cases Can Get a Little Weird Sometimes
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors give a judge a birthday gift. A prosecutor refers to a defendant as Dennis the Menace. A drunken driver...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Eclipse, O'Connor Merger Creates Full-Service IP Boutique
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - Sometimes, when firms start looking for a merger partner, they call in consultants, draw up lists of specificati...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Gregory Bergman and Kenneth Moscaret - Imagine this current-day courtroom scenario for a moment. A client is...
SACRAMENTO - Assembly Republican Whip Todd Spitzer said last week that Democrats boxed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger into a corne...
Discipline
Have a Dead Client? Be Careful With Attorney-Client Privilege
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Terence S. Nunan - Most attorneys who deal with the rules of evidence think they have a good intuitive under...
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker announced the opening of a Chicago office. Steve Catlett and Rick Chesley joined the Chi...
Corporate
Tide Turning Against Privilege Waivers for Prosecutors in Corporate Cases
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Jan L. Handzlik - The wave of corporate corruption scandals starting with the 2001 failure of Enron has led...
The Sacramento office of McKenna Long & Aldridge is so new that on a recent afternoon, the receptionist at McKenna's San F...
LOS ANGELES - Grace Reiner, the assistant executive director of the Writers Guild of America West whose expertise on writers' ...
Intellectual Property
Supreme Court Will Consider Altering Obviousness Patent Test
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - It isn't always obvious whether something is obvious - at least not in patent law.
Judges and Judiciary
Complex Litigation Doesn't Faze This Los Angeles Judge
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - As managing judge at Central Civil West, Carolyn B. Kuhl oversees Los Angeles County Superior Court's innovative...
WASHINGTON - Congress could have disqualified U.S. District Court Judge Alcee Hastings from ever holding federal office when h...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eva Paterson may be known for decades of work promoting civil rights, but lately she has been daydreaming of a...
Corporate
Do Not Punish Entire Investigation Trade for HP's Deviant Probe
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Keith Rohman - Politicians, legal experts and journalists have professed to be appalled and scandalized by H...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - I am writing to comment on an article that appeared in the Sept. 15 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Jour...
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Jason A. Weiss - As incidents of harassment, discrimination and retaliation continue to infect the work...
LOS ANGELES - Bruce Karatz, class of '70, has built considerable goodwill at USC's Gould School.
WASHINGTON - It was 20 years ago when Michigan lawmakers, facing a mortgage scandal that saw investors and borrowers lose mill...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who befriended a lonely and isolated zoo chimpanzee can sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture over th...