Manatt argues for Jim Brown's trademark rights before the Ninth Circuit *

USA - July 16 2012
Last Friday Manatt partner Ron Katz, the Chair of Manatt's Sports Law Practice Group, argued the case of Brown v. Electronic Arts before Judges Sidney Thomas and Jay Bybee of the Ninth Circuit and District Court Judge Gordon Quist sitting by designation.

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Ethics: judges corral horses and ostriches to combat bad lawyering *

USA - May 1 2012
Appeals are generally staid affairs, and appellate justices — jaded by experience — are generally slow to anger.

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Recent ethical disasters: appellate courts' responses to bad lawyering *

USA - January 27 2012
Appellate courts often confront various forms of deficient lawyering, particularly involving questions of dishonesty and frivolity.

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No attorney-client privilege for e-mail sent from employer's computer *

USA - January 14 2011
Yesterday the Third District California Court of Appeal created important new precedent on a controversial issue, finding that where an employee used her employer's computer to send e-mails to her attorney about a potential lawsuit against her employer, the attorney-client privilege did not apply.

Co-authors: Alison Sultan White.

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Manatt represents football legend in appeal against Electronic Arts *

USA - July 13 2010
Last week Manatt lawyers filed an opening brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of football legend Jim Brown.

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