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VIDEO: Concerns swell over green chemistry

Dec. 15, 2012
By Rei Estrada

An untested program that fails at the outset would overwhelm the DTSC and impacted parties and would undoubtedly do extensive ...


Community News


Youth Law Center honors "Unsung Heroes"

Dec. 15, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

The Youth Law Center honored five individuals with the "Loren Warboys Unsung Hero" award on Dec. 3 in a ceremony and reception...


Community News


Landau Lawyers League Fall Softball Playoffs

Dec. 15, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP were crowned champions at the conclusio...


Community News


On Dec. 7, the San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA) hosted "Stepping Up to the Bar," its annual holiday reception and inst...


Inner City Law Center hosted a holiday celebration for clients and their family members, which included over 100 children. The...


Solo and Small Firms


Small firm wears Asia practice on its sleeve

Dec. 15, 2012
By Ryne Hodkowski

Dedication to Asian clients and businesses comes naturally to Margolis & Tisman LLP. Two of the firm's 14 attorneys are b...


Litigation


An Orange County jury has returned a defense verdict in a personal injury case in which the plaintiff claimed $27.6 million in...


On Dec. 7, the Lawyers Club of San Diego, hosted its annual Twilight Holiday Gathering honoring the North County judiciary and...


Community News


The Anti-Defamation League kicked off its centennial year with its Annual Dinner Celebration on Dec. 11 at the Beverly Hilton ...


Law Practice


Civil rights lawyer Barrett S. Litt, known for taking on the Los Angeles County Jail system and whose clients have included th...


A federal district judge on Wednesday denied a second request from Paul Hastings LLP to move a lawsuit from bankruptcy court t...


California Supreme Court


When is a judgment deemed final for purposes of appeal? That's a question many lawyers are debating, while courts across the c...


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


California can slash Medi-Cal spending on poor residents, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panels held Thursday in an opini...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Dec. 14, 2012
By David Ruiz

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


Entertainment & Sports


Hedge funds are slowly returning to the film finance market as the economy continues its tepid recovery, but terms have become...


Corporate Counsel


Adam Wergeles

Dec. 14, 2012
By Andrew Mc Intyre

General Counsel of ReachLocal Inc. Woodland Hills ...


Criminal


The incident should reignite the debate over how the media should cover these killers, who frequently claim that they committe...


Litigation


Judge denies Avon's request to toss suit

Dec. 14, 2012
By Ben Adlin

A federal judge denied cosmetics company Avon Products Inc.'s effort to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of testing foreign-marke...


Government


San Diego Superior Court Judge Luis Vargas is scheduled to retire Jan. 6 after 20 years on the bench and will immediately star...


Cooley LLP represented the newest "big data" venture fund devoted to seed funding and Series A financing as the industry pulls...


Law Practice


Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP has bucked a lot of law firm trends. The firm doesn't have a summer associate program. It hi...


Government


Stanford Law School graduate Wade A. Robertson Jr. could be disbarred for allegedly misappropriating $3.5 million from a Maryl...


Education


Van Cleave chosen as Golden Gate's new dean

Dec. 14, 2012
By Saul Sugarman

Golden Gate University School of Law on Wednesday announced Rachel Van Cleave as its new dean. ...


Bankruptcy


Bankruptcy judges see authority sapped

Dec. 14, 2012
By Kevin Lee

In a decision closely followed by lawyers involved in major law firm bankruptcies, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC got the job of working for the Foster City-based company, the first acquisition the fi...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Dec. 13, 2012
By Connie Lopezn

Invesco Advisors purchased a 278,000-square-foot industrial building in La Mirada for $27.5 million. Shaw Industries previousl...


Labor/Employment


With the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, employers are playing with a strengthened hand...


Education


School districts have admitted that using tracking devices allows them to retain more state funding, which is tied to attendan...


These issues are likely to come to a head over the next few years, as the U.S. Supreme Court, 9th Circuit and state Supreme Co...


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


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday voted to review en banc a whistleblower case involving a Burbank police detec...