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Unless you follow all the latest tech news, you may not have heard of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Heck, you might not even know how to pronounce the company’s name. (It’s wah-way.) But what started out as a foreign company specializing in building telephone and data networks abroad, has branched into smartphone sales, rivaling Apple and Samsung in sheer volume. For a moment, it looked like Huawei was on the verge of an American breakthrough, bringing their coolest phones to the U....

Perhaps the last thing anyone wants on their cell phone is a strip club text message. Or you know, 280 of them in one year. That’s just what happened to Bret Lusskin, lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit filed against the parent company of Tootsie’s Cabaret, a strip club in Miami Gardens, Fla. He, and perhaps hundreds of others, received a constant stream of text messages from the strip joint after entering a contest....

No biting. That’s one of the first lessons children are taught. Miquel McNorton, 49, was reminded of that recently after jurors convicted him on a misdemeanor charge. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, McNorton was found guilty of misdemeanor charge for battery on an officer and two counts of resisting arrest stemming from an Aug. 18 run-in with two officers, one of whom he bit on the wrist. Prosecutors say McNorton has been arrested 16 times since 1988 for attacking officers, eight of whom he bit....

The NBA has dismissed and disqualified free agent guard O.J. Mayo under the league’s anti-drug program. According to a press release, Mayo will be eligible to apply for reinstatement in two years. The league said it was “prohibited from publicly disclosing information regarding the testing or treatment of any NBA player under the Anti-Drug Program,” and announced only the suspension and reinstatement restriction. So what did Mayo test positive for, and what does it mean for him?...

Martin Ginsburg’s posthumous Supreme Court cookbook will allow you to eat as heartily as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Sure, Justice Ginsburg wasn’t exactly young in her years when she first took her place on the bench. But that doesn’t mean she subsisted on a high-fiber diet of prunes with a nutritious side of Ensure. No, it actually seems that Justice Ginsburg ate better than most of us. Her late husband, Martin Ginsburg, was not only a tax lawyer but an amateur chef....

Tokyo’s The Amrita, a nude pop-up restaurant, doesn’t even open its doors until next month, and it’s already causing quite a controversy. No, not because it purports to offer diners a “naked” eating experience. It’s because the restaurant will supposedly ban old, overweight, and inked-up patrons. A similar prohibition in the U.S. might invite a few discrimination lawsuits. But those could be the least of a nude restaurant’s worries. Here are a few other legal concerns for naked dining establishments:...

Pro-bono service is a very important part of a lawyer’s career, so it is good to see the trailblazers in this area be recognized for their services. A law firm that has been at the forefront of the growing pro-bono movement in Los Angeles since the 1930’s will be honored this year by the American Bar Association. O’Melveny & Myers LLP will be recognized with one of five 2011 Pro Bono Publico Awards from the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service on August 8, at the Pro Bono Publico Awards Assembly Luncheon during the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto....

A district court in Pennsylvania is apparently fed up with underdressed court visitors and money pulled from places the sun don’t shine. A pair of signs recently posted in York County District Court Judge Ronald J. Haskell Jr.’s courtroom made the court’s feelings on the matter clear, reports The York Daily Record. One sign reads, in Spanish we well as English “Money from undergarments will not be accepted in this office....

Conviction of defendant for murder and related crimes and sentence to an aggregate prison term of 145 years to life is affirmed for the most part but reversed in part where the evidence was insufficient to show beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant harbored the specific intent to kill the attempted murder victim. Therefore, conviction for attempted murder is reversed and defendant’s sentence is reduced by 40 years. Read People v....

Waiting for bar examiners to post exam results in the District of Columbia is like waiting for Congress to fund the government on the eve of a shutdown: you don’t know when it’s going to happen but it feels like they’re not taking the consequences seriously. It has been especially stressful for hopeful admittees because the DC bar has not posted its February results but says the regular deadline for applying for the July exam has already passed (the late filing deadline is May 18th)....

Yale might be ranked as the number one law school in America (you’re trash, Harvard), but when it comes to passing the bar on the first try, graduates of the much less celebrated law schools far outrank Yale, Harvard, Stanford and many other prestigious law schools. That’s right, if you want to pass the bar, go to law school at the University of Alabama or Wisconsin, not the Ivy League. Roll tide, cheeseheads....

A Wyoming woman has been charged with felony assault and battery after stabbing a human-sized teddy bear. Carly Marra of Casper is accused of being less than cuddly when she allegedly stabbed the 5-foot-tall teddy bear with a kitchen knife during a fight with her boyfriend, reports the Casper Star-Tribune. Could Marra be facing prison for attempted bear-icide? Marra’s alleged assault on her teddy began as an argument with her boyfriend, the father of her 16-month-old child....

Court testimony has revealed new details about how Penn State’s ex-football coach Joe Paterno handled an initial report that Jerry Sandusky was caught molesting a boy in a Penn State shower room. Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary testified that he said he witnessed Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in 2002. But McQueary stopped short of calling the incident “rape.” In his first public account of the incident, McQueary testified that when he described the scene to his boss Joe Paterno, the coach said, “Well, I’m sorry you had to see that....

As Scotland prepares to vote whether to end its 307-year affiliation with the United Kingdom, we’re left to wonder what could have been if California were put to the same question. As you might know, Tim Draper, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sponsored a ballot initiative to split our beloved Golden State into six different states: a northern state called “Jefferson” from Chico to Oregon, a band surrounding Sacramento from the ocean to Nevada (“North California”), a “Central California” state, a Los Angeles-centric state called “West California,” a Bay Area and coastal state (“Silicon Valley” – really?...

The most important skill an attorney can have may be the ability to bring in clients. If you’re a rainmaker, you will be successful. Yet, many attorneys make plenty of mistakes and overlook the critical skills of bringing in clients. Whether it is arrogance or sloppiness, many attorneys miss out on coveted business opportunities simply because they don’t know how to close a deal. This is especially true for new and younger lawyers....

David Smith thinks his lost legal career is worth $5 million. Too bad the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals thinks that he can’t bring his federal claims. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals disbarred Smith in 1996. In reciprocal disciplinary proceedings, the federal district court and the Colorado Supreme Court also disbarred him. In 2007, the Tenth Circuit reinstated Smith. Based on that reinstatement, Smith sought to be reinstated to the federal district court....

Yogis and yoginis in Berkeley can be zen once again. Police have arrested a suspected yoga class burglar who’s accused of stealing from four yoga studios, a capoeira gym, and a restaurant – all while students and customers were distracted. Christopher D. Newton, 20, has been charged with six felony commercial burglary counts for stealing unattended wallets from yoga students while they were being mindful in class, according to Berkeleyside....

If you thought law school was really just one big vocabulary lesson, then you’re not alone. You don’t leave law school with many practical tips, merely the language of law. You can talk the talk, but can’t quite walk the walk. Here’s an example: Welcome to the world of BigLaw, where you have corner offices, company cars and rainmakers. Rain what? Rain who? Hold up, you thought you’d be in the legal industry, not forecasting weather trends....

Brigham Young University’s No. 3 ranked basketball team suffered a major setback after forward Brandon Davies’ honor code violation got him dismissed from the team for the remainder of the season. There is no indication that Davies was arrested, and BYU officials confirmed Wednesday that Davies wasn’t involved in a criminal incident, ESPN reports. So what did Brandon Davies do? School officials aren’t saying, but it is worth noting that BYU has one of the strictest, if not the strictest honor codes in the country....

Cab drivers and gun owners – two groups not known for their heroic patience – are anxious to have their cases decided by the D.C. federal courts. The cabbies are honking mad over a new slew of taxi regulations that may put a strain on the District’s most veteran drivers. And the gun owners have fired off a petition to the D.C. Circuit appellate court, hoping it will force the D....