Law Practice
Tech-Savvy Capitol Hill Takes New Interest in Patent Office
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Most Capitol Hill staffers appear surgically attached to their BlackBerry devices. Fellow pedestrians, stop signs...
SAN DIEGO -The law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP signed a 10-year lease valued at $27 million for 54,187 s...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - You could call this column an open letter to Justice Anthony Kennedy. On Jan. 7, 2002, t...
LOS ANGELES - Meyers Nave, an Oakland-based public entity law firm, is expanding into Southern California and recruiting vete...
Focus Column - By Kirk A Pasich - Some insurance carriers recently have challenged whether their liability policies provide co...
WASHINGTON - There was no shortage of journalists on hand in the Supreme Court two months ago when Justice David H. Souter mad...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wrestling with the equities of barkeep grooming standards, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 7-4 Fri...
LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Rosenthal, a longtime Bay Area real estate attorney, has joined Cox, Castle & Nicholson as a part...
LOS ANGELES - Morgan Lewis & Bockius recently wrangled litigator Carla Feldman from Loeb & Loeb to join its labor and...
LOS ANGELES - Robert "R.J." Comer, a fixture on the Los Angeles political scene as an attorney representing developers, has le...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has reversed the conviction of a Catholic priest on sexual abuse charges, citing prosecutoria...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four and a half years after standing trial for the murder of his wife, Northern California doctor Louis Pelfin...
LOS ANGELES - You've gotta get 'em into the tent, as old-time revivalist preachers might say. And that is one reason for the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Experts say a federal appeals court ruling outlawing harsh treatment of the homeless in Los Angeles is a warni...
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge assigned to the explosive privacy lawsuit alleging that AT&T helped the federal government spy o...
Los Angeles-based entertainment law firm Myman Abell Fineman Greenspan & Light has made David M. Fox a name partner.
SAN FRANCISCO - Unrelenting rains flushing raw sewage into Oakland's Lake Merritt; high tides washing away Santa Monica's fame...
Labor/Employment
9th Circuit Draws Line Between Competing Beliefs and Workplace Hostility
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By Kere Tickner and Joshua Bordin-Wosk - In the world of employment law, one of the most controversial and...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Avid Mystery Reader Applies Detective Skills to Mediation
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Jack E. Goertzen loves a good mystery. The retired appellate court justice enjoys separating the clues from the ...
Focus Column - By Catherine K. La Tempa - California courts have consistently held that the appearance of impropriety is not a...
Administrative/Regulatory
'Operation Safe Streets' Article Is Misleading
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - Your article "Police Frown on S.F. DA's Drug Arrest Plan" (April 7 San Francisco Daily Journal) fails t...
Corporate
SEC Must Revise Its Rules on Section 404 Compliance for Smaller Concerns
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Hillel Cohn - Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in response to the perception that cases like E...
LOS ANGELES - The list of lawyers at the center of rampant Hollywood speculaton about who might be charged in connection with ...
LOS ANGELES - One side sees it as a boring contract dispute brought by a former law firm partner; the other sees a salacious l...
LOS ANGELES - The case involved multiple real estate transactions and touched on rules of professional conduct. But according ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to allow the citation of so-called "unpublished" opinions in all federal courts...
INDUSTRY - Commercial Cooling Par Engineering Inc. purchased a 60,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at 17855 Arenth Ave. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Roberts' Dissent in 'Randolph' Reveals Shrinking View of Privacy
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Edward Loya - In a commentary published in the Daily Journal last fall ("Search Case Will Shed Light on Robe...
Intellectual Property
'Bad Girl' Wins Round in Platypus Infringement Suit
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - The author of the "Bad Girl's Guides" figured that if anyone sued her, it would be over the more provocative sug...
Environmental
In Land Battles, It Ain't Easy Being Green or Red-Legged
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal wildlife regulators Thursday significantly reduced the amount of land designated as essential to the s...