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Municipal Lawyers


Robert A. Blum

Dec. 6, 2012
By Pat Broderick

Hanson Bridgett LLP San Francisco Specialties: tax and employee benefits ...


Municipal Lawyers


Marc A. Levinson

Dec. 6, 2012
By Pat Broderick

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Sacramento Specialtiy: restructuring ...


Municipal Lawyers


Sandra J. Levin

Dec. 6, 2012
By Ben Adlin

Colantuono & Levin PC Los Angeles Specialties: municipal finance, litigation, city attorney matters ...


Municipal Lawyers


Steve M. Berliner

Dec. 6, 2012
By Pat Broderick

Liebert Cassidy Whitmore Los Angeles Specialities: public employee retirement plans, retiree health insurance issues, labor ...


Municipal Lawyers


Manuela Albuquerque

Dec. 6, 2012
By Pat Broderick

Williams & Sorsensen LLP Oakland Specialties: complex public litigation and projects ...


Employee Benefits


Health plan changes proposed

Dec. 6, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

The Affordable Care Act and related health care reform laws amended the rules that apply to wellness programs offered by emplo...


Municipal Lawyers


After three years, 700,000 pages and $1.5 million later in legal fees and costs, the Securities and Exchange Commission contin...


Letter to the Editor


Revisiting the NLRB's 24 Hour Fitness ruling

Dec. 6, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

I read with interest Eli Kantor's article, "NLRB's 24 Hour Fitness Ruling Consistent With Precedent," Nov. 28. ...


Government


Box ban laws apply to more employers

Dec. 6, 2012
By Laura Hautalan

These municipal laws, which have a larger goal of limiting criminal background checks for job applicants, are becoming broader...


Municipal Lawyers


In many ways, 2012 was a trying time for municipalities. Some, we now know, entered the year on the cusp of filing for bankrup...


Appellate Practice


Trial courts' jurisdiction bound on remand

Dec. 6, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

A decision reiterates the rule that an appellate opinion's dispositional language controls the scope of the trial court's juri...


California Supreme Court


State Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic to a plaintiff who was barred from suing a business because he failed to bri...


Government


A number of superior courts across the state have recently announced reductions in service and layoffs as they continue to adj...


Juthamas Judy Suwatanapongched formed the Thai American Bar Association, a Los Angeles-based organization geared at helping me...


Government


Assemblyman Mike Feuer, a candidate for Los Angeles city attorney, is recovering in intensive care after a car accident on Mon...


Law Practice


Quinn Emanuel to open Paris office

Dec. 6, 2012
By Alexandra Schwappach

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will open a Paris office shortly after the beginning of the year, creating its fourt...


While some prosecutors cooperate with innocence investigations, others require the groups to litigate every step of the way, s...


Regional planners in San Diego failed to properly examine the climate change impacts of their long-term transit plan and must ...


A trans-Pacific fee fight between lawyers in Guam and San Francisco is playing out in state court here over legal work stemmin...


Intellectual Property


The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has hired veteran Bay Area IP attorney Neil A. Smith as an administrative law judge in it...


Criminal


Lawyer sentenced in tax fraud case

Dec. 6, 2012
By Don De Benedictis

Santa Monica estate and tax attorney Robert M.L. Baker III must spend three years in federal prison and pay more than $2 milli...


Law Practice


Patent attorney Scott M. Smith has moved to the Palo Alto office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP as partner, a little more than a ...


California Supreme Court


State high court wrestles with whether employers can avoid liability if they admit to discrimination but prove they would have...


Two federal judges issued opposing rulings this week over the constitutionality of a California law banning gay conversion the...


Law firms and corporate counsel can find a new source of revenue while reducing costs to clients by implementing litigation re...


Perspective


Firms adapt to the age of e-discovery

Dec. 5, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Law firms and corporate counsel can find a new source of revenue while reducing costs to clients by implementing litigation re...


The Los Angeles-based law firm built a national client base despite the fact that it never expanded outside of California. ...


Perspective


Automakers take heat for fudging numbers

Dec. 5, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

The EPA recently concluded an investigation that revealed that Hyundai and Kia overstated fuel efficiency numbers on 900,000 o...


Law Practice


I am confident in the assertion that, when it comes to communication, our friends in the business community are no less suscep...


Labor/Employment


An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation of Wet Seal Inc. unearthed discrimination against an African American...