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Intellectual Property


Three steps to an effective open source strategy

Jan. 11, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

It is crucial to remember that it is still a copyrighted work subject to a software license that often comes with strings atta...


Intellectual Property


There are several myths that make the rounds in engineering organizations and generally mar the reputation of the patent proce...


Community News


The Landau Lawyers League capped off its 2013 fall basketball season with playoffs that pitted top teams from each of its "A,"...


Corporate


Software analytics company names first GC

Jan. 11, 2014
By Caitlin Johnson

On the road to an expected 2014 initial public offering, San Francisco-based New Relic Inc. announced on Wednesday the appoint...


Firm Profile


Keeping Vigilant

Jan. 11, 2014
By David Ruiz

Partners at Minami Tamaki LLP have formed seemingly disjointed groups where their work hardly overlaps, but they say their sha...


California Courts of Appeal


Bryan Cave LLP did not have to disclose its relationship with an arbitrator who served on a panel that awarded the law firm mo...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Paul J. Weinberg

Jan. 11, 2014
By Don Debenedictisn

Weinberg has settled a number of cases not so much because of his understanding of the problems involved, he said, but because...


Judges and Judiciary


Kozinski objector case gets a new judge

Jan. 11, 2014
By Hadley Robinson

A federal judge in Washington state has agreed to take on a case involving an objection to a class action settlement by 9th U....


Diamond Foods Inc. agreed to resolve claims it defrauded shareholders by manipulating payments for walnuts, the Securities and...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Now that Google Inc. has lost its bid to find a Wiretap Act escape hatch from the huge class action brewing over its Street Vi...


Community News


Attorneys from Miller Starr Regalia reviewed major developments in land use law from 2013 in the firm's annual land use progra...


Community News


San Diego bar installs new leadership

Jan. 11, 2014
By Ben Adlin

The San Diego County Bar Association inducted its 2014 president, Jon R. Williams, last month at the group's annual "Stepping ...


Community News


The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region hosted its Centennial Gala Celebration Dec. 10 at the Beverly Hilton Hot...


Community News


Jenner & Block attorneys and staff donated gifts this holiday season to foster teenagers enrolled in Walden Family Service...


Corporate


Once largely the purview of public relations departments, such issues have gained the attention of legal compliance officers a...


Labor/Employment


By amassing a large group of plaintiffs and class members ahead of time, plaintiffs' lawyers hope to inundate employers with i...


Criminal


'HIV criminalization' is bad public policy

Jan. 11, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Except in the most extreme cases, the prevention of the transmission of communicable diseases is properly a function of our pu...


Government


Holding a press conference a day early because his budget proposal was leaked, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday called to increase...


Perspective


Managing your dismissive and bully peers

Jan. 10, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

When they get more upset, you become calmer: not just outwardly, but inwardly as well. By Paul Fisher and Juli Adelman


Corporate


Dealmakers

Jan. 10, 2014
By Dominic Fracassan

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Jan. 10, 2014
By Seena Nikravan

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...


In California, law schools accredited by the State Bar and unaccredited schools are much cheaper than the better known schools...


Judicial Profile


Daniel L. Brenner

Jan. 10, 2014
By Henry Meier

Words matter to Judge Daniel Brenner - whether in his role as FCC advisor, judge or stand-up comic.


Law Practice


The Garcia court's opinion and the new law are the direct product of two serious legal errors committed in the legislat...


Perspective


Contractual attorney fees conundrums

Jan. 10, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Civil Code Section 1717 sounds straightforward and if it applied to every single suit involving a contract fee provision, it w...


Environmental


Oil and water don't mix in California

Jan. 10, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

On Jan. 7, nine lawmakers sent a public letter to Gov. Jerry Brown imploring him to impose a complete moratorium against frack...


Corporate Counsel


Treg A. Julander

Jan. 10, 2014
By Alexandra Schwappach

General Counsel of Advent Companies Inc. San Juan Capistrano ...


Government


Judges revamp bid for discipline law

Jan. 10, 2014
By Paul Jones

California Judges Association plans to reformulate its attempt to seek legislation that would give judges more leeway to defen...


Civil Rights


The city has settled a two-year challenge to its at-large election system and will let voters decide whether to usher in a dis...


Litigation


JPMorgan's lawyers unsuccessfully tried to convince a Los Angeles County judge that litigation privilege surrounding the compa...