SAN FRANCISCO - Consumer attorneys will be watching closely as the California Supreme Court takes yet another look at Proposit...
Judges and Judiciary
Vernon Smith, 24-Year Veteran of Marin Bench, Will Retire
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County Superior Court's senior judge, Vernon F. Smith, will retire his gavel in January after 24 years o...
Litigation
Vioxx Judge May Issue Template Rulings for Controlling 4,000 Cases
By Meagan Yellottn
LOS ANGELES - With the number of Vioxx liability lawsuits against Merck & Co. climbing past 23,800 nationwide and the comp...
DISBARMENTS
SAN FRANCISCO - Minority female attorneys nationwide said they face exclusion from informal networks, inadequate institutional...
FORUM COLUMN - By Norm Kjono - German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it ...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Grants Disability Retirement to Two Judges
By Paria Kooklann
LOS ANGELES - The state Commission on Judicial Performance has granted disability retirement to Los Angeles County Superior Co...
LOS ANGELES - In 1997, the first year the Minority Corporate Counsel Association gathered statistics, Fortune 500 companies co...
FORUM COLUMN - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Currently, California is one of 13 states that still make a distinction in sentencing betw...
Intellectual Property
Court Will Wrestle With Standard for Obviousness in Patent Cases
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Jeffrey A. McKinney and Julianne M. Sullivan - 'Obviousness," "motivation to combine," "teaching-suggestion-...
Large Firms
Law Firms Discover That Job Fairs Expand Ethnic, Gender Candidate Pool
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - They're on recruiting calendars everywhere - the Vault Legal Diversity Job Fair, the Sunbelt Minority Recruitmen...
SAN FRANCISCO - The mother of a young woman who died after using a popular birth-control patch sued the pharmaceutical company...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Patent Agent Wins Bar Group's Scholarship
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - The Federal Circuit Bar Association honored Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati patent agent Sharmila Pandharip...
ALHAMBRA - For a few days in January, Commissioner Michael J. Duffy's courtroom was packed with nuns in habits. ...
A state appellate court has slammed a Los Angeles attorney for derailing what should have been a simple divorce by inflaming t...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Lets Mendocino DA Race Continue; Results Will Be Sealed
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - The Mendocino County district attorney's race may proceed Tuesday, but the results will be sealed pending furt...
Zoning, Planning and Use
School District Will Pay $3.4 Million for Widow's Land
By Jim Adamekn
REDLANDS - An 84-year-old widow will receive $3.4 million in exchange for her home site in rural San Bernardino County that a ...
A state appellate court Wednesday refused to release a Fresno sex-offender who had declared himself cured because he had been ...
LOS ANGELES - Some jurors in Judge Michael Solner's courtroom marvel at the resemblance between the Los Angeles County Superio...
One lawyer's experience with debtor's prison. By Robert Selna ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Spoo is a copyright litigator, a Green Bay Packers fan, the father of 8-year-old twins - and a James Jo...
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth W. Starr, a former U.S. solicitor general, and Eric H. Holder Jr., a former deputy attorney general, are...
Judges and Judiciary
Congress Wrestles With Patchy Judicial Expertise in Patent Cases
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Michael M. Rosen - Recently, patent reform has become a topic of choice in the corridors of our Capitol, the...
A "mean-spirited" Long Beach man was justified when he reached out from the grave to punish three of his daughters because one...
LOS ANGELES - A new survey released Tuesday shows that median salaries for in-house lawyers increased this year by up to 9.5 p...
Entertainment & Sports
Fighting for the Right to Use Your Own Rock Band's Name
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - When the '80s pop-dance group Expose disbanded in 1996, they went down in history as the first girl group to hav...
Regarding "Clothes Could Make or Break the Lawyer, for Jurors at Least," (Daily Journal, Oct. 24), although in general trial l...
SAN FRANCISCO - On Tuesday, voters must decide whether to retain California's newest Supreme Court justice and its longest-ser...
Judges and Judiciary
Doing Little Things Well Aids Clients and Impresses Judges
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Bryan E. Smith - 'Nao pode ensinar o padre rezar missa." This popular Portuguese phrase translates to: "Who ...
LOS ANGELES - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman announced Tuesday that it has received a license to practice law in China. ...