Litigation
Principles of War Apply as Well to Courtroom Battles
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By Byron W. Cooper - Many parallels have been drawn between war and litigation. Both require leaders...
Technology transactions partner Glenn Nash has left Cooley Godward to join the Menlo Park office of Latham & Watkins. Nash...
During his days in law school, Bill Hunter says, he used to complain that going into patent law wouldn't give him opportunitie...
Forum Column - By David Wood - Surf through the how-to tips on MarthaStewart.com and you'll notice a common thread. Whether th...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - Rajiv P. Patel - Patents deployed for strategic business purposes in a licensing or lit...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
ERISA Doesn't Pre-empt State Suits Seeking Reimbursement
By Columnist
Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Harvey L. Rochman and Joanna S. McCallum - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals surprised...
SAN FRANCISCO - Terry Francke, the Sacramento lawyer who long championed freedom of the press as general counsel at the Califo...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has issued a preliminary injunction banning 86 men accused of being members of a southeast San Diego crimi...
Appellate Practice
Panel Rebukes Judge for Tossing Suit After Lawyer Stole File
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - In a sharply worded opinion, a state appellate court has rebuked an Orange County judge for throwing out a busin...
WASHINGTON - The light- and dark-green amicus briefs in the Supreme Court's first cases assessing the constitutionality of the...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the men convicted of kidnapping a busload of children outside Chowchilla in 1976 appears to have suffer...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Urges Accommodation of Jewish Test Takers
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Under pressure from outraged state Assembly members, State Bar leaders on Friday issued a broad resolution calli...
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an Orange County sheriff's deputy can be sued for allege...
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers in the offices of San Diego County's public defender and alternate public defender have begun receiving no...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Jury trials, as any judge knows, are fraught with pitfalls. As the Tyco corporate...
SAN FRANCISCO - One threatened to jump off the Bay Bridge, snarling traffic for 13 hours, and the other is accused of killing ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Thursday threw out a closely watched lawsuit filed by a Boalt Hall student to recover a ...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Lorelei Westin and Al Halluin - "Nanotechnology" is a word used by many but actually...
Near Cua Viet, 1967 An old woman knelt Weeping her son Into the earth. "Mother, who did this?" "Men," she said. ...
Forum Column - By Robert A. Pugsley - On April 5, the state Supreme Court upheld a basic principle of criminal law, which unju...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - During her testimony before the Sept. 11 commission, National Security Advisor Condo...
Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Facing multiple interviewers at the same time can be intimidating, but with preparat...
SAN FRANCISCO - An influential advisory panel is poised to release the results of a four-year study into possible improvements...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Santa Clara Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell, the first black female judge in Northern Californ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The head of San Francisco's police union has abruptly backed off his cautious endorsement of District Attorney...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who had been accused of collecting state injury payments while doing heavy...
LOS ANGELES - The attorney for former users of the diabetes medication Rezulin told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday...
Appellate Practice
Influential Lawyers Write Letter Opposing Splitting of 9th Circuit
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Some of California's most influential Democratic and Republican lawyers wrote to the state's congressional deleg...
MODESTO - Stanislaus County residents who hear the name Whiteside usually equate it first with Carol Whiteside, who worked for...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two-strike convict Ronnie E. Young deserved a year off his sentence because he saved the life of a choking pri...