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IP law association hosts Judge's Night

Mar. 15, 2013
By John Michael

Chief Judge Randal A. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit headlined the annual Judge's Night gala, spon...


Litigation


Plaintiffs in the mental-health portion of a lawsuit surrounding overcrowding in state prisons plan to file a brief Friday in ...


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


A San Diego asylum-seeker turned down for a federal law school student loan lost his suit against the government over the loan...


Community News


Japanese Bar honors alternate public defender

Mar. 15, 2013
By John Michael

The Japanese American Bar Association held its 37th Annual Installation and Awards Gala on Feb. 22 at the Omni Hotel in downto...


Perspective


Yankees: baseball's one and only 'evil empire'

Mar. 15, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

According to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, "In short, the record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and ...


Community News


Beverly Hills Bar honors litigator, judge

Mar. 15, 2013
By John Michael

The Beverly Hills Bar Association held it's 3rd Annual BHBA Litigation Awards Dinner on Feb 20 at the Montage Beverly Hills. ...


California Courts of Appeal


Law firms can sue other law firms for unfair business practices even if they have no direct business dealings, an appellate co...


Duane Morris LLP lured away one of the founding partners of Krieg, Keller, Sloan, Roman & Holland LLP Thursday, bringing o...


Stacy D. Phillips founder and managing principal of Phillips Lerner ALC (center) with guests Richard Fischoff (left) and Dr. A...


Community News


From left: Los Angeles managing partner Eric E. Sagerman, Associate Justice Chin and David L. Aronoff, head of the firm's liti...


Law Practice


Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling LLP scooped up former U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman to be part of the fir...


Budget cuts are hitting federal public defenders' offices across the country worse than anticipated and harder than at other a...


With cooperation from parties in a rash of suits in a 2007 fire, neutrals launched an unusual plan to get broader authority ov...


A senate subcommittee hearing Thursday on judicial branch funding revealed little evidence the legislature intends to pay for ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Mar. 15, 2013
By David Ruiz

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


A fight over moving massive amounts of water from the rural Imperial Valley to Southern California cities has taken a dramatic...


Perspective


Equal pay bill a much needed fix

Mar. 14, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

When women earn less than their fair share, that loss not only harms women, but also weakens families, communities and our ent...


Perspective


When I tell a foreign company that it may be required to file an undertaking in an amount equal to what the defendant reasonab...


International


Under labor dispatch, a company seeking to retain staff in China signs a contract with an authorized labor dispatch agency tha...


Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County and three other organizations plan to file a lawsuit against the Los Angeles...


Judges and Judiciary


New member appointed to Judicial Council

Mar. 14, 2013
By Paul Jones

Four members of the Judicial Council were announced for new terms, including three returning judges reappointed by the chief j...


Litigation


San Bernardino County has given up its fight to recover losses from several government agencies after the parties reached a "w...


Government


A bill by Assembly Republican Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, AB 1313, would authorize additional judgeships each year for courts ...


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


The controversial 2006 conviction of the first man tried for al-Qaeda-linked terrorism in California got the OK Wednesday from...


Entertainment & Sports


The move could see the release of evidence that Michael Jackson's mother and children say links a concert promoter to the sing...


Law Practice


Andrew Stolper, a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the government's failed case against wireless giant Broadcom s...


Government


Riverside County names new public defender

Mar. 14, 2013
By Katie Lucia

Riverside County named criminal defense veteran Steven L. Harmon its new public defender late Tuesday on the heels of a tumult...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Mar. 14, 2013
By Connie Lopezn

Chauncey Swalwell and Matthew Friedrich of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP assisted a portfolio lender in facilitating a...


A last-minute cancellation by Prop. 65 reform bill author Mike Gatto, D-Burbank, from an event by tort reformers could show in...


Federal prosecutors in the Northern District added charges to an economic espionage and trade secret theft case against the fo...