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These days many fights for Evander Holyfield are happening outside of the boxing ring. The former heavyweight boxing champ is facing a legal bout and his wife has filed for a temporary protective order against him. According to the Associated Press, Candi Holyfield, 30, filed documents accusing her husband of hitting her in the back of the head on Feb. 1, after she refused to show him check stubs of her financial contributions to the church....

Trial court’s order directing plaintiff to pay monetary sanctions to defendant-bank is reversed as plaintiff failed to provide the required notice of its motion for sanctions as required under Code of Civ. Proc. section 128.7(c)(1). Read Galleria Plus, Inc. v. Hanmi Bank, No. B213099 [HTML] Read Galleria Plus, Inc. v. Hanmi Bank, No. B213099 [PDF] Appellate Information Filed November 19, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Epstein CounselFor Appellant: David D. Kim & Associates, David D....

Who would have guessed the Hells Angels even knew what a trademark is? It seems the leather-wearing, Harley-riding motorcycle gang has a solid understanding of how to protect their intellectual property. Case in point: the bad boy bikers have filed suit against the label bearing the name of the bad boy of haute couture: Alexander McQueen. The Hells Angeles filed their trademark suit against McQueen for his use of the death’s head insignia on rings, purses and dresses, according to The Los Angeles Times....

Amidst economic downsizing, resizing, and other tricks of the tailor trade, law associates may find that they have one more thing in common with their in-house counterparts. Yes, the cubicle. If your firm, agency, or non-profit is making the shift to cube farms, we want to help you ease into the transition. So you can be the cool new cube kid on the block…the associate that everyone wants to meet, the one who knows all the best new legal jokes, and who can charm the fellas or ladies with ease....

Judgment of a juvenile court terminating a mother’s parental rights and selecting adoption as the permanent plan concerning her children is affirmed where: 1) there was substantial evidence supporting the juvenile court’s finding that the child was likely to be adopted; and 2) substantial evidence supports that the notices sent by the county department were sufficient and substantially complied with the ICWA so that any deficiencies in the notices were de minimis and not prejudicial....

Editor’s note, October 8, 2018: This article originally stated that “Jay K. Joshi” was The Real Dr. Joshi. However, Jay K. Joshi is the impostor, according to the lawsuit. The article has since been corrected. Will the real Dr. Joshi please stand up? In an odd case of misappropriated identity, “The Real Dr. Joshi” is suing the imitator Dr. Joshi, born Jay K. Joshi, in Illinois federal court. The Real Dr....

No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, no later than 21 years after some life in being at the creation of the interest. If you understand this statement, go find yourself a fertile octogenarian to bother. The rest of you? Read on. Apparently the Rule Against Perpetuities is actually a semi-useful tool. Useful that is, if you, or your client, hate all of your living relatives....

Depositions can get heated. Sometimes witnesses just get under the skin of attorneys, and sometimes it’s one of the other attorneys in the room making the questioning attorney’s life miserable. However, for one Illinois attorney, it has just become painfully obvious that while the standards of the American public may have gone right down the drain pipe, lawyers are still expected to maintain professional, courteous relationships with their adversaries. Currently, that lawyer is facing potential discipline due to the barrage of insults he hurled, on the record, during a deposition, at his opposing counsel....

As “Shark Week” is coming to a close, and as we’ve spent most of “Legal Shark Week” co-opting the term, part of me wonders why lawyers can’t be analogized to more sympathetic creatures, like kittens or koala bears. So let’s take a bite out of the “lawyer shark” stereotype. Here are our Top 5 choices for other animals – some wise, some magical – that we’d rather be called than sharks:...

Bastian Schweinsteiger is a German soccer player. It would be fair to say that Bastian Schweinsteiger looks very German. Teutonic, even. Is Bastian Schweinsteiger the most German looking person ever? Possibly. Does Bastian Schweinsteiger look like a Nazi soldier? Um, that depends on who you ask. A Chinese toy company introduced a new Nazi soldier to its WWII collection. The Nazi soldier’s name is Bastian. He looks … very German. Does Bastian the Nazi toy soldier look like Bastian Schweinsteiger?...

The recent story involving an Apache woman in a vegetative state who unexpectedly gave birth is disturbing on so many levels. Thankfully, law enforcement and health care workers are committing to solving this violating mystery. But that task could lead down a long and winding road. Details Regarding the Victim A woman at the Hacienda HealthCare facility in Phoenix, Arizona gave birth to a boy on December 29th. She had been in a vegetative state for over a decade, and in the facility since 1992, due to a drowning accident....

Should young lawyers mix some French classes in with their études de droit? Learn to sprechen a bit of Español before sending out their resumes? Yes, of course. No one these days would be worse off for having learned a second language. Lawyers especially will benefit from a mastery of, or even familiarity with, foreign tongues. It’s a Question of Opportunity Sure, a second language is usually necessary for some practices....

Suffolk University Law School is offering a certificate in legal innovation and technology. The good news is that it is an online course. The bad news is that it cost almost $16,000 for the certificate. But since the program targets working professionals – lawyers and nonlawyers – they may be able to afford it without going into debt. And if you want to take just one course in the program, it’s a relative bargain at $3,000....

A getaway plan is the most important part of committing any crime. No, really – what’s the point if you can’t even leave the scene? You’re practically guaranteeing yourself a few days behind bars. To prove this point, this week’s edition of T.G.I.FindLaw! will focus on some of the week’s less prepared criminals. We’re talking botched getaways galore. And for some reason, they all live in Florida. Does this hospital gown make my butt look big?...

It’s one of the biggest disputes in biotech and a billion dollar question: Who owns the intellectual property behind CRISPR-Cas9, the groundbreaking gene-editing technology? The technique allows researchers to edit specific parts of a genome, removing, adding, or altering DNA. It could be the future of biotech, allowing everything from bespoke medical treatments to designer crops or even genetically superior Ubermenschen. But both the University of California, Berkeley and the Broad Institute have claimed the technique as their own....

A New York woman is being called to task for allegedly setting up her adoption by an elderly man in order to get his rent-controlled apartment. Pamela Becker, 62, was legally adopted by 85-year-old Nicholas DeTommaso in 2009. After DeTommasso died that year, Becker took over the lease to DeTommaso’s flat in Queens. The monthly rent: just $100. But last month, Becker was crestfallen to learn that the New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal had ruled that she was not entitled to the extremely cheap apartment, The New York Post reports....

If you have to serve process on a defendant, and that defendant no longer lives in the U.S., you can’t simply serve process on his mom. California courts want you to know that there’s a little thing called the Hague Convention, and you have to show that you either complied with it – or it didn’t apply – in order to bring a case in California against a defendant based in a foreign land....

Want to become rich while working in the California state government? Don’t run for governor, don’t become director of the department of health, don’t put yourself in charge of the state’s water resources control board. Get a job with the California State Bar Association. That’s right. The state bar’s top executives get paid much more than similar employees elsewhere in state government – including the 13 Cal Bar employees who make more than the governor....

Here at FindLaw, we understand the pressures of being a legal professional – most of us are recovering lawyers – so we want to help by tossing you that preferred life preserver of the legal profession, the short list. Today’s offering: National Security Letters. National Security Letters are the “Fight Club” of legal documents. The first rule of National Security Letters is: Do not talk about National Security Letters. But that’s changing....

If you thought violence was only for Lakers fans, you thought wrong. Fans were sent scrambling last night outside Chesapeake Energy Arena just minutes after the Oklahoma City Thunder knocked the Lakers out of the NBA playoffs. One, possibly two, individuals opened fire on the crowd, wounding eight bystanders. Police are questioning two individuals, but are still looking for more information about the OKC shooting. Murder charges may need to be filed....