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Entertainment & Sports


What happens when a production unexpectedly loses its star? By Mary Craig Calkins and Daniel H. Rylaarsdam ...


Community News


Judges, attorneys and city officials gathered Tuesday to celebrate a group of defense lawyers who represent indigent defendant...


U.S. District Court Judge Manuel L. Real shot down all seven securities fraud charges brought by the SEC against Basin Water I...


Community News


San Francisco-based public interest law firm Youth Law Center held its 2013 Loren Warboys Unsung Heroes reception Monday at Bi...


Community News


Fenwick & West LLP's San Francisco office hosted an Association of Business Trial Lawyers event Dec. 3 on life beyond the ...


Community News


Family law firm Phillips Lerner ALC held its annual Adopt-A-Center event for the Los Angeles Youth Network at Lucky Strike, a ...


Solo and Small Firms


Newport Trial Group

Dec. 14, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

With 16 full-time attorneys, the firm expects to break $10 million in revenue this year, a success it attributes to its "relen...


Community News


The Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig LLP took home the Corporate Diversity Award at the 2013 Compete Sports Diversity A...


Community News


More than 40 legal administrators and partners from Orange County law firms gathered on Dec. 3 at the Center Club in Costa Mes...


Community News


Business litigation attorney John B. Hurlbut Jr. of Rutan & Tucker LLP received the Orange County Bar Foundation's "Sammy"...


Corporate


Infoblox names new general counsel

Dec. 14, 2013
By Caitlin Johnson

Stephen Yu, also named executive vice president at the company, joins from Santa Clara-based Rovi Corp., where he served as ...


Community News


The Orange County Trial Lawyers Association held its annual Top Gun Awards Dinner and Charity Auction at the Montage Laguna Be...


Corporate


Orrick, Allen Matkins guide record retail deal

Dec. 14, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

The 865,783-square-foot Pacific Commons Shopping Center in Fremont is the largest retail property in the Bay Area to sell this...


Community News


The South Asian Bar Association of Southern California held a special reception for two of its members on Dec. 6, honoring the...


Community News


Friends, family and colleagues gathered Dec. 4 for Loyola Law School's swearing-in ceremony for alumni newly admitted to the S...


Corporate


GC must be 'more than a lawyer,' study finds

Dec. 14, 2013
By Caitlin Johnson

Both in-house counsel and company directors expect business savvy to become a top concern over the next five to 10 years, acco...


Since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first made these voluntary permits available in 2009, no company has tried to get one...


Litigation


Personal injury attorneys are increasingly advertising their services to bicyclists. Even minor collisions can result in subst...


Perspective


Complicating the duties of in-house counsel

Dec. 14, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

A recent case seems to complicate the duties of counsel representing an employer where an employee is a witness in the case. B...


Law Practice


The sustained decline is the first decrease to be measured since the National Association for Law Placement survey began in 19...


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Dec. 13, 2013
By Seena Nikravan

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


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Dec. 13, 2013
By Dominic Fracassan

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Prosecutors and law enforcement have been cautious in assessing Bitcoin's appropriation in illicit transactions and practicall...


Corporate Counsel


Jonathan D. Alexander

Dec. 13, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

General Counsel for Western Growers Assurance Trust Irvine ...


Judicial Profile


David M. Chapman

Dec. 13, 2013
By Katie Lucia

Attorneys say Judge David Chapman has brought collegiality and fairness to Indio and Palm Springs.



Alive and well in the 9th Circuit: anti-SLAPP

Dec. 13, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Questions regarding the applicability of anti-SLAPP statute in federal courts were finally resolved, for now, when the 9th Cir...


Litigation


A woman whose legs became paralyzed after a semi-truck crashed into the bus she was driving has won Sacramento County's larges...


Criminal


The arrest is the first of its kind, the office said, and comes on the heels of a recently passed law barring sexually explici...


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


Municipalities can require cell phone companies to win voter approval before erecting mobile telephone antennas on city-owned ...


Judges and Judiciary


She and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye told stories about their backgrounds but also emphasized the ...