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Richard Frasch discusses the importance of streamlining venture capital transactions. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A day before draft legislation against human trafficking goes to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates for approva...


Video


Robert Nelson of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP explains why a recent Supreme Court decision is a "potential game ...


Law Practice


Lisa Gilford, who helped Toyota negotiate its $1.6 billion settlement in a class action over sudden unintended acceleration, i...


State Bar & Bar Associations


In an address Saturday evening, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called lawyers of the American Bar Association to a...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Banks: Still too big to fail? Experts at odds

Aug. 12, 2013
By Dominic Fracassan

What is the role of governmental oversight in the banking industry? A recent panel discussion on the subject quickly turned in...


Law Practice


On the Move

Aug. 12, 2013
By Kylie Reynolds

Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is launching a third Germany office in Munich, helping to further ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Patent transactions valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars appear to be slowing even as patent deal volume is on the ri...


Judicial Profile


Thomas E. Hollenhorst

Aug. 12, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

25 years after joining the 4th District, Justice Hollenhorst still likes the work, and he still likes people.


Judicial Profile


Jeffrey King

Aug. 11, 2013
By Blake Edwardsn

Jeffrey King's first love is politics - he served briefly as a mayor before taking the bench


Perspective


Superior courts effectively endorse mediation

Aug. 10, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Courts are crowded, staffs have been greatly reduced and judges are overworked. Getting to trial is likely to be years away an...


Perspective


Why aren't cases settling?

Aug. 10, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

A plaintiffs' attorney asked me this question recently. Although my experience in mediations I am conducting is that the cases...


Books


A 'tough luck' government for everybody

Aug. 10, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

"The Tough Luck Constitution," by Andrew Koppelman, is partly an account of the Affordable Care Act's background, and is partl...


Perspective


Aug. 10 is the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, legislation which provided a formal apology for the...


Government


Plan to seize underwater mortgages not viable

Aug. 10, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

According to Mortgage Resolution Partners, the lender that is owed $300,000 on a performing loan paying 6 percent interest wil...


Environmental


Future conditions properly considered

Aug. 10, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

The state high court recently held that an agency has discretion to study a project's impacts compared to future conditions un...


Community News


Susan Hack, a partner at San Diego-based Higgs Fletcher & Mack, was awarded the prestigious Daniel T. Broderick III award ...


Video


Rachel Van Cleave, dean of Golden Gate University School of Law, talks about the importance of young lawyers becoming active i...


Administrative/Regulatory


Lawyers say advancements in automobile technology are increasingly turning driving a car into operating an online computer on ...


Community News


The American Constitution Society's Bay Area Lawyer Chapter and Keker & Van Nest LLP hosted a reception and speech on Aug....


Solo and Small Firms


All In The Family

Aug. 10, 2013
By Pat Broderick

At San Diego's Ronis & Ronis, three generations of lawyers from the same family handle some of the region's biggest crimin...


A federal judge issued a permanent injunction Wednesday forcing the government to hold bond hearings for immigrant detainees w...


Special Coverage


Lee Jay Berman, of the American Institute of Mediation, talks about training people to be better mediators. ...


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


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found another way to side with environmentalists in a stormwater pollution case, several...


Community News


Zack Simkover, a regional marketing specialist for Reed Smith LLP, recently raced in Les Trois Etapes, a charity cycling race ...


Community News


For the fourth year in a row, all nine Best Best & Krieger LLP offices joined together to provide underprivileged students...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Limiting discovery in civil cases and licensing non-attorneys to aid pro se litigants were among the suggestions made Thursday...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Dennis G. Cole

Aug. 10, 2013
By Katie Lucia

A former cop, lawyer, judge and now neutral with IVAMS Arbitration & Mediation Services, Dennis Cole has developed a stron...


Immigrants who entered the country illegally and took a plea deal without being advised they could be deported because of it r...


Law Practice


California and Washington are embracing a new school of legal thought: that legal services will soon be delivered to the under...