LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments on Monday confirmed the appointment of U.S. District Judge Nora M. Manel...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - In the famous story "Rashoman," published in 1915 by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, ...
Focus Column - By Henry Z. Carbajal III Trade secret misappropriation litigation presents a paradox. To mount a defense, a de...
Corporate
Small Capital Lobbying Firm Signs Up Drug Giant Pfizer Inc.
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A small lobbying firm has picked up a big pharmaceutical company as a client. Kathleen Mossburg & Associates,...
SACRAMENTO - Fresno County Superior Court Judge Carlos A. Cabrera vividly recalls his life as a young boy in a small Mexican t...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego County man who hoped to cash in on the popularity of Nascar racing says a Colorado company gummed up h...
LOS ANGELES - It was a weekend that saw 17 former inmates solemnly tell audiences about their wrongful convictions and their h...
Immigration
Congressional Break Leaves Mixed-Status Families in Limbo
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - While immigration reform is stalled in Congress as lawmakers take a two-week holiday break, time is running out ...
SAN FRANCISCO - History books say most civilized countries abolished debtors' prisons in the 19th century. But lawyer and Bay ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission has taken the unusual step of removing language from corporate sentencing guidelin...
LOS ANGELES - It could be weeks before the case or cases to be tried in California's Vioxx liability trials are set as both si...
LOS ANGELES - No committees. No bureaucracy. No hands-on all-partners meetings. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chris Clay, a consultant to the state Assembly's Insurance Committee, considers his license to practice law "a...
SAN DIEGO - Hart Realty Advisers purchased the 110,994-square-foot Hibiscus Plaza at 9350 Waxie Way from Japan-based Hibiscus ...
REDDING - An icy wind slashing directly from the nearby snow-covered slopes of the Trinity Alps discourages loitering outside ...
On March 28, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most significant case to date on the limits of President Bush'...
Intellectual Property
Companies Need to Establish Trade-Secrets Protection Plan
By Columnist
Historically, intellectual property assets such as trade secrets have been viewed as enhancing a company's competitive advanta...
Large Firms
Cooley Recruit Will Launch Real Estate Practice in San Diego
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Cooley Godward has recruited Michael Levinson to launch a real estate practice in its San Diego office. Levinson...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for veteran Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jean E. Matusinka. ...
Civil Rights
S.F. Securities Litigator Moves to Sheppard's L.A. Office
By Anna Oberthurn
Securities litigator John Stigi III has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Los Angeles office as a partner after...
SAN FRANCISCO - House Speaker Tom DeLay's decision last Monday to bow out of politics shocked people on both sides of the poli...
Litigation
76,000-Word Appeal Held Up as Everything a Brief Should Not Be
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - "This is an appeal run amok." So begins a 46-page appellate court ruling that castigates a Sacramento attorney ...
LOS ANGELES - Patent attorney R. Michael Ananian has moved his practice to the Menlo Park office of Perkins Coie. He joined th...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal reporter Peter Zuckerman has won one of journalism's highest awards for a series of ar...
Law Practice
Losing Law Firm in Proposition 65 'Bounty Hunters' Case Proclaims Victory in Defeat
By Dennis Pfaff
How can a law firm turn a slam-dunk defeat into a victory? By saying so, perhaps. ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Banjo Player Allows Note of Humor in Courtroom
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Silence is rare in Superior Court Judge Richard W. Lyman's Long Beach courtroom. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for five gang members are asking a Los Angeles federal judge to decide whether a race-based murder is ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with environmental groups by committing the Environmenta...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lots of attorneys write books. Think of Scott Turow and Steve Martini, who became household names through thei...
LOS ANGELES - A co-defendant of celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano pleaded guilty Friday to a charge that he hired the sl...