Among the 10,000 people expected at yesterday's Orange County AIDS Walk at the University of California, Irvine, was Ken Babco...
Commercial Law
Understanding of History of Contract Interpretation Can Benefit Attorneys
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Focus Column - Business Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - "A page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v...
When Marshall Grossman and Larry Stein decided to merge their firms in 1999, the pundits wondered how the two attorneys would ...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that a person in extremis who is questioned by poli...
Focus Column - Securities Law - By Thomas C. Klein - Enron, Global Crossing and many other companies are embroiled in securiti...
SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday ordered the manufacturer of a diet aid linked to the death of a baseball player to pay consumers...
LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Dorothy L. Shubin's former colleagues at the U.S. attorney's office used to joke she was so...
Forum Column - By V.M. Raguz - The Bush administration has determined how it will protect U.S. citizens from potential politic...
Forum Column - By David D. Caron - Amid discussions about ending the U.N. sanctions on Iraq, there also is talk of forgiving s...
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - A deadly disease originates in China, where it is misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Public-...
Entertainment & Sports
'Grokster' Court Holds Some File-Sharing Systems Are Legal
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - The online music industry is undergoing another period of rapid an...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel may use the case of two former prison guards convicted of orchestrating inmate ...
LOS ANGELES - A judge has dismissed misdemeanor criminal charges for the second time against a man beaten into a coma last sum...
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group attorneys, suspended from practicing law for allegedly misusing the state's unfair-competition ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney G. Grant Gifford has died in Los Angeles following an illness. He was 58. Gifford, who died April 27, w...
LOS ANGELES - A judge's order that San Diego and San Bernardino priest sex-abuse lawsuits must be combined with similar mass l...
SANTA ANA - The former media relations director for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was interviewed for nearly...
SAN JOSE - A Yellow Cab is just a yellow cab, a federal judge ruled Thursday in denying a Sacramento taxi company's trademark...
SACRAMENTO - The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the largest fine ever levied by the state's Fair Political P...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court once again wrestled Thursday with the question of whether police can search firs...
SAN FRANCISCO - An oil company will pay $620,000 to settle a Bay Area water pollution lawsuit revived last November when the ...
LOS ANGELES - The Fox network's notorious "Breaking the Magician's Code" television specials, which featured a masked magician...
Criminal
Jury Finds Glendora Lawyer Guilty in Conspiracy
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Capping an exhaustive four-year prosecution, an Orange County jury Thursday found a Glendora attorney guilty of pe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers who once struggled to keep pace with initial public offerings are increasingly helping clien...
SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech advocates squared off with the entertainment industry Thursday in a widely watched trade secret d...
LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...
LOS ANGELES - The oldest active member of the State Bar, Robert M. McManigal, has died. He was 102. McManigal died in his slee...
LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...
SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...
Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - At the beginning of the 20th century, a progressive revolt added the rights of initiative, ref...