LOS ANGELES - The months-long runup to the California Vioxx trials could reach a turning point today with a Los Angeles County...
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has acquired Reed Intellectual Property Law Group, a Palo Alto-based boutique ...
LOS ANGELES - GE Real Estate provided $130 million in financing for a Class A, 1 million-square-foot office/retail building at...
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has come up with a new take on "three strikes, you're out" - allowing suspected ...
Education
Critics Fear Bill's Affect on Unaccredited Law SchoolsRaising School Standards Has Downside, for Some
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Chris Clay, a consultant to the state Assembly's Insurance Committee, considers his license to practice law "a...
Government
After It All, President Bush Did Win the 2000 Election
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor I read with humor the Daily Journal's March 27 column by Marianne Means ("Roberts' Sharp Words Give a Ta...
Forum Column By Natasha Minsker "I will never forget the face of the man who threatened to kill my baby." Those were the word...
Letter to the Editor In Georgia v. Randolph , 126 S.Ct. 413 (March 22, 2006), the U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled that the ...
Corporate
U.S. Judge Tosses Shareholders' Class Suit Against Perot Systems
By Peter Zuckerman
Perot Systems Corp. has won a class action brought by shareholders alleging that stock prices dropped because the company cons...
Even Los Angeles County Superior Court judges get sick sometimes. And when they do, traffic court must still go on. Unlawful d...
LOS ANGELES - Robert A. Holtzman would be the first to admit that a strict interpretation of the law doesn't always yield desi...
Appellate Practice
L.A. Judge Erred in Penalizing Defendant for Lawyer's Actions
By Leslie Simmons
A Los Angeles judge was wrong to punish a civil fraud defendant with a $1.3 million default judgment just because his attorne...
How can a law firm turn a slam-dunk defeat into a victory? By saying so, perhaps. When lawyers with Los Angeles' Jeffer, Mang...
Entertainment & Sports
High Court Call: Schools Aren't Liable if Pitchers Aim for Head
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - If you're hurt in a college sporting event and believe the school's negligence led to your injury, you can sue...
LOS ANGELES - The Enron fraud trial may be taking place half a continent away, but it has got California written all over it. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Variety in Calendar Absorbs Humanitarian Lover of Trials
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge John L. Davidson had just finished presiding over a murder trial when a case with a blind def...
LOS ANGELES - The nation's top immigration judge is stepping down days after an official acknowledged that U.S. Attorney Gener...
DISBARMENTS Hartwell, Leslie Layton, Hollywood INTERIM SUSPENSIONS Hamlin, Richard William, Placerville ETHICS SUSPENSIONS Bat...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Mary Kay Kane took over Hastings College of the Law 13 years ago, California's largest and oldest law sch...
Entertainment & Sports
Courts Need to Constrain Fiduciary Duty to Narrow Class of Relationships
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marty Katz and Lisa Stutz - For 40 years, the entertainment industry was plagued by dicta - from cases that ...
Focus Column - By John A. Reding, Edward Han, and Sean D. Unger - On Jan. 4, the California Supreme Court granted review of Gr...
LOS ANGELES - Shai N. Halbe has left his position as a partner at Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman, Machtinger & Kinsell...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the issue of employer liability for workers harassed by outsid...
SANTA ANA - In an unusual development in an unusual trial, the former federal prosecutor who put together the massive case aga...
SANTA ANA - A jury awarded a Los Angeles prosecutor $1.5 million Wednesday finding that City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo illegal...
Litigation
Judge Declares Officers' Rights Were Violated in Locker Room
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - What the heck were they thinking? U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips didn't use those precise words. But she...
Commercial Law
Going Once, Going Twice - Patents Going on the Block
By Kevin Livingston
SAN FRANCISCO - Will companies start auctioning their patents on eBay? It's not a likely scenario given the complexity of most...
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling hailed as a major victory for cities over superstores, the Central Valley town of Turlock has prevai...
Pittsburgh-based law firm Reed Smith announced Wednesday that it has signed a letter of intent to merge with Richards Butler, ...
House Speaker Tom DeLay's decision Monday to bow out of politics shocked people on both sides of the political spectrum. Few w...