LOS ANGELES - Lowering fees and offering rebates on secondary-student loans is just "good public policy," the U.S. Department ...
SAN FRANCISCO - "Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy" has become a staple media phrase in California's utility crisis, but un...
SANTA BARBARA - All John Roberts knew as he drove to the Simi Valley home of criminal defense attorney Stephen M. Hogg one nig...
LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson may have reached the end of his game. An appellate court Friday rejected the former football star's...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward managing partner Lee Benton is stepping down after four years of leading the Palo Alto firm thr...
Law Practice
Messenger Service's Demise Perhaps Spurred By Union Drive
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Union-organizing efforts by San Francisco legal couriers may have hastened the demise of Express Network Inc.,...
What happens when a defendant decides not to show up for trial or behaves so badly that he or she is ejected from the courtroo...
Technology & Science
Site Preys on TV Shows That Have Lost Their Bite and Taken a Dive
By Andrea Rosas
Jump the Shark Inc. pinpoints the precise moment when nearly 2,000 shows, spanning the last 50 years, took a turn for the wors...
The past year has seen several developments in federal and state legislation related to entertainment law. Among the more nota...
Late last month, the Department of Health and Human Services issued new federal regulations intended to protect the privacy of...
On any given day, a lawyer might pick up the newspaper, read about a bill that impacts his or her practice, and wish he or she...
LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey Rawitz will end his tenure with the U.S. attorney's office in a week to go into private practice. Rawitz...
With a few exceptions, statutes passed during the 2000 California legislative session primarily fine-tuned existing land use l...
The Daily Journal asks lawyers for their forecast of the 2001 legal market. ...
The type of use of another's customer list becomes crucial in deciding advertising-injury claims. ...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has come under much criticism of late. That's largely because a new class of "bu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Instead of passing the torch to his hand-picked successor and facilitating a smooth transition for an office k...
The game hasn't even begun, but Old Economy companies already have scored a touchdown in Sunday's Super Bowl. Last year's game...
Technology & Science
A Modest Proposal to Narrow The Widening Digital Divide
By Columnist
Last week, a call came in from a 14-year-old, the daughter of the previous janitor at our office. Her parents are Salvadoran. ...
SANTA ANA - California's electricity grid is flickering like a failing light bulb, and its two biggest public utilities are te...
SANTA ANA - In a split verdict, Orange County jurors Wednesday found an Anaheim Burger King franchise liable for "outrageous c...
LOS ANGELES - Environmentalists aren't the only ones celebrating an appellate court decision that effectively bans oil drillin...
SANTA ANA - Federal prosecutors are recommending a nine-year prison sentence for former Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno, ...
RIVERSIDE - A prosecutor described medical malpractice lawyer Lingaraj Bahinipaty as a "sophisticated, brazen thief and batter...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel's Ideas For Campaign Reform Likely To Raise Ire
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to curb increasingly rancorous and high-priced judicial elections, a group of national judicial and le...
SAN FRANCISCO - Douglas Young, the new president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, comes to the post with experience fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for corporate defendants, the California Supreme Court made it harder Thursday for class-action c...
The premise behind the law is that DNA testing technology has improved so dramatically in recent years that new testing could ...
Law firm legal secretaries are the unsung heroes of the profession. Even courts depend on them. Most judges do not have person...
Intellectual Property
Re/MAX Gets EBay to Change Its Ad In Settlement of Logo-Infringing Suit
By Staff Writer
DENVER - A nationally aired television commercial for eBay Inc. has been altered after a Colorado-based real estate company ac...