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On Aug. 23, the Southern California chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted its second invitation-only Rising S...


California Supreme Court


Two lawyers representing death row clients skirted financial sanctions from the state Supreme Court on Thursday, but the justi...


Community News


This past June, the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Family Law Section competed in its first Bocce Ball Tournament to ben...


Some California prosecutors and law enforcement officials are speaking out against a bill that would allow increased media acc...


Solo and Small Firms


Lawyers with Cohen & Richardson in El Segundo find their practices naturally complement one another and help them work sea...


Law Practice


A court-appointed receiver has been assigned to help wind down operations at The Cochran Firm Los Angeles as the entity's form...


Community News


DLA Piper attorneys return the service

Sep. 1, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

In July, the San Diego office of DLA Piper took part in the 24th annual Stand Down event for homeless veterans. DLA Piper’s pa...


Entertainment & Sports


MGM wins "Raging Bull" fight

Sep. 1, 2012
By Jean Yung

The studio that produced the 1980 boxing film "Raging Bull" can continue to pocket profits on distributions of the award-winni...


Community News


This summer, a team of seven DLA Piper attorneys traveled to Guyana to help modernize the country’s justice sector. The projec...


Community News


This month, the legal communtity came together to encourage attendees at the Los Angeles Paralegal Association’s (LAPA) Pro Bo...


Law Practice


The bankruptcy lawyer representing the Dewey & LeBouef LLP estate wants the court to green light a $71 million partnership...


Federal prosecutors have abruptly dropped their case against a Spain-based website they had accused of criminal copyright infr...


Community News


This year, the Food from the Bar campaign in San Francisco raised a record-breaking $565,969 for the San Francisco and Marin F...


Intellectual Property


In the two biggest intellectual property trials of the year, Morrison & Foerster LLP attorneys used very similar strategie...


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


Marilyn Monroe's estate cannot gain financially by suddenly claiming that California was her legal domicile after decades of i...


Entertainment & Sports


Last week's $50 million damages award for Hollywood financier David Bergstein's malpractice claims serves as a reminder that w...


Corporate Counsel


Shannon Smith

Aug. 31, 2012
By David Mc Afee

General Counsel and Director of Information Governance Globanet Sherman Oaks ...


Perspective


The Supreme Court has repeatedly declared that trial courts are required to enjoin picket line violence and intimidation. By W...


Intellectual Property


In Art of Living, the court did not excuse the fact that the blog was only visited a few hundred times. By Dan Berman a...


Perspective


Don't wait to refine boilerplates

Aug. 31, 2012
By Michael Leen

Most business leaders and many lawyers give only passing thought to the boilerplate provisions in their companies' consumer co...


Constitutional Law


Orange County gadfly must hold his tongue

Aug. 31, 2012
By Ben Adlinn

A man silenced at an Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting lacks standing to challenge a county rule restricting inflamma...


Government


Deposition-limiting bill goes to governor

Aug. 31, 2012
By Paul Jones

A bill that would limit to seven hours the length of time plaintiffs are subject to depositions in many cases passed the state...


Large Firms


The second time's the charm for formerly named Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, the New York-based firm that is once again seekin...


Judges and Judiciary


Sitting judges have been told they won't have to pay increased pension contributions in the state's pension overhaul bill, but...


Corporate


Davis Polk, Simpson Thacher help in HVAC sale

Aug. 31, 2012
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Bay-area attorneys from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP assisted in Daikin Industries Ltd...


The controversial Alliance of California Judges was an important, but not dominant, factor in the election of Orange County Su...


The decision reverses the federal district court as well as the state Supreme Court, which affirmed the conviction 12 years ag...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Aug. 30, 2012
By Connie Lopezn

MV TanVentures LLC inked a five-year lease with E-Holdings LP to open an iTan tanning salon at Eastlake Terraces in Chula Vista.


Government


Two years after Citizens United, the ruling is stirring proposals to add more disclosure requirements in California campaigns ...


Perspective


Precedent for Prometheus

Aug. 30, 2012
By Michael Leen

A new application of a law of nature might be patent-eligible, but it must also be more than the application of the law to a s...