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Litigation


Veteran sues Boy Scouts over decades-old abuse

Feb. 1, 2013
By Hamed Aleazizn

A 49-year-old U.S. Coast Guard veteran is attempting to use a federal statute protecting military servicemembers to skirt the ...


Escondido trusts and estates lawyer Sydney Claire Kirkland has stipulated with the State Bar that she should be disbarred for ...


Corporate


Tribune taps Lazarus as executive VP and general counsel

Feb. 1, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

Tribune Company appointed a new executive vice president and general counsel, the company announced Tuesday, the latest in a r...


Large Firms


Kilpatrick talks in LA are ongoing

Feb. 1, 2013
By Ameera Buttn

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is in ongoing discussions to open a Los Angeles office with the help of Keats McFarland...


Corporate Counsel


Jenny Wang

Feb. 1, 2013
By Katie Lucian

General Counsel for Exemplis Corp. Cypress ...


Litigation


Potash antitrust case settles for $80 million

Feb. 1, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Plaintiffs in a U.S. District Court antitrust case involving allegations of potash price fixing settled with remaining defenda...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP represented four separate clients on five different financing deals in a week, for a combined v...


Law Practice


Mark Hummels, a partner at Osborn Maledon PA and president of the Phoenix chapter of the Federal Bar Association, was shot at...


Entertainment & Sports


Warner Bros. sued over video royalties

Feb. 1, 2013
By Jean Yung

Late Tuesday, a group of older actors and directors claiming movie studios systematically underpay home-video profits on their...


Intellectual Property


Having already denied Apple Inc. its big-prize injunction against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Ko...


A judge issued a tentative ruling Tuesday throwing out San Bernardino County's central claim in a suit seeking to recoup funds...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Jan. 31, 2013
By Connie Lopezn

Winthrop Couchet PC inked a 5-year, $1.2 million lease with The Irvine Co. The 6,383-square-foot property is located at 660 N...


California Supreme Court


Attorneys on all sides agree the depublications mean the justices want lower courts to use Brinker as precedent rather than th...


Perspective


Each judicial opinion is in itself a mini primer on the subject matter involved. If you want to know about leveraged buy-outs,...


Perspective


Legal funds promote equal access to justice

Jan. 31, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

We need to ignite the fire in our young attorneys to take on even more clients who seek restitution for injury, fraud and trad...


Real Estate/Development


State power projects raise real property issues

Jan. 31, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Power lawyers are seeing a wave of transactions, some of which involve the purchase and sale of existing power facilities. Alm...


Perspective


A court recently held that fraud is a form of theft and that the money a borrower obtains through fraud is therefore stolen pr...


A federal judge sentenced the former president of the Vanguard Public Foundation to 40 months in prison Tuesday for his role i...


The company that administers law school exams, which already faces a federal lawsuit by a California state agency claiming it ...


Arent Fox LLP will open up shop in San Francisco on May 1 in order to meet existing client demand, the firm announced this wee...


Real Estate/Development


California's multifamily and industrial real estate markets are looking up, according to the latest Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderso...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial branch works to reduce committees

Jan. 31, 2013
By Paul Jones

An effort is under way to reduce the number judicial branch committees and working groups and increase Judicial Council oversi...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Latham & Watkins LLP represented San Francisco-based OpenTable Inc. in its $10 million purchase of Foodspotting Inc., Open...


Entertainment & Sports


A California appellate court indicated Tuesday it was inclined to throw out an elderly writer's claim that ABC stole his ideas...


Government


With state prisons already facing federal scrutiny over medical and mental health services for inmates, new reports highlighti...


Immigration


U.S. immigration reform announced Monday is still very much in the abstract and experts said the provisions of the proposal co...


Letter to the Editor


Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Jan. 30, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

By Peter J. Logan ...


Perspective


That is what is happening on the streets and in the courtrooms across the state - the rapist is advised of his right to counse...


A unanimous state Supreme Court issued its decision in Aryeh v. Canon Business Solutions, allowing at least a portion o...


Law Practice


If an opening statement can decide the outcome of a criminal trial, then it behooves lawmakers to implement measures that insu...