LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Regarding Howard Privette's "Sentencing Guidelines Encourage Draconian Punishments for Securities Fraud...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jeffrey W. Shopoff, name partner of San Francisco civil litigation boutique Shopoff & Cavallo, set off to ...
Firm Watch
Principals of Fox & Sohagi Will Close Firm, Go Separate Ways
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - For nearly two decades, Deborah Fox and Margaret Sohagi have worked together in the firm Fox & Sohagi. ...
Intellectual Property
Rival Attorneys Get Stoked for 'Surf City' IP Battle
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - What began as a lively debate between two beach towns claiming bragging rights to the title Surf City USA has ...
Litigation
Comcast Thwarts Patent Suit in Plaintiff-Friendly Texas Venue
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - A patent infringement claim against Comcast Cable Corp. has gone in favor of the defendants in spite of being ...
Intellectual Property
Copyright Office Ruling on Ringtones Gives Songwriters Static
By Andrew Harmon
LOS ANGELES - It used to be simple. Take a recognizable ditty - "Guantanamera," perhaps, or "Camptown Races" - synthesize the ...
LOS ANGELES - So what is the value of having one of the Enron prosecutors or a U.S. attorney in an office down the hall? ...
Richard Zelichov joined Katten Muchin Rosenman as partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.
LOS ANGELES - His military haircut may have just been enough to get Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge C.H. Rehm noticed ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Carol Overton spent a large part of her legal career battling street gangs ...
IRVINE - Sometimes, when a Muslim in Southern California contacts the Council on American Islamic Relations with a business, i...
Labor/Employment
The Former Employee's Demand Letter Has Arrived - Now What?
By Eric Berkowitzn
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Jonathan Fraser Light - Your client just received a demand letter from an attorney for a former employe...
LOS ANGELES - Ted Marx has had another reversal of fortune. ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Kirk A. Pasich - Most insurance coverage litigation starts with a fundamental dispute over what an insurance...
Criminal
Confidential Jailhouse Snitch Deals Serve Criminals Before Justice
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Alexandra Natapoff - The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice is considering an issue...
It is said that in the court of Jeffrey Huffaker, decorum reigns. This is no small accomplishment for a Contra Costa Court com...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service has been scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 19 for a noted Bay Area consumer advocate, public-inter...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - In your Oct. 31 article titled "Landmark Tries to Suppress Video, Group Asserts," Landmark Education, a...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for an 89-year-old man convicted of killing 10 people when he crashed his car into a Santa Monica farm...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation in Mix Makes a More Satisfying Career
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - Howard M. Garfield was well on his way toward a graduate degree in the philosophy of religion from Harvard Uni...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Lawyers' Groups Urge Saving of State Bar's Diversity Panels
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Two influential statewide lawyer groups have joined the fight to save the State Bar's long-standing diversity ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The last year wasn't the slowest in recent memory for the U.S. attorney's office here. ...
Government
GOP Losses May Move Immigration Reform Through Congress
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - President George W. Bush may feel like Republicans got a thumping this week, but his party's loss may signal a v...
WASHINGTON - An effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants could be the first test of the Democrats' resolve ...
LOS ANGELES - A company that manages a Palm Springs outpatient cancer center has agreed to pay the federal government $900,000...