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Community News


SDVLP holds award ceremony

Sep. 29, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program held its annual Justice For All Celebration on Sept. 13. Those honored at the event were (f...


Solo and Small Firms


Aerlex Law Group is an all-encompassing service for any aviation related legal matter, representing private charter companies ...


Community News


Lawyers, clients and friends of the firm gathered at Fenwick & West LLP’s headquarters in Mountain View last week to celeb...


Arbitrator Profile


James P. Lingl

Sep. 29, 2012
By Ben Adlin

Neutral James P. Lingl considers himself a stubbornly sincere holdout for the possibility of compromise between litigants -- e...


Community News


Best Best & Krieger LLP hosts open house

Sep. 29, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

Attorneys at Best Best & Krieger’s Riverside office held an open house on Sept. 13 to celebrate its new location at the Ci...


California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. held an awards ceremony last Saturday and honored the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Mille...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Ontario lawyer Gary David Tracy mislead distressed homeowners, according to the bar. Among his abuses included filing shell pe...


Intellectual Property


Striving to carve away part of Apple Inc.'s trademark lawsuit over use of the term "App Store," defendant Amazon.com Inc. on W...


Large Firms


Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP welcomed a commercial litigator specializing in complex business disputes and anti...


Government


As part of a broader effort to increase efficiency and accountability in the judicial branch, council leaders are working to r...


Government


With Monday's one-year anniversary of realignment, the ACLU is one of many organizations looking at initial results of the law...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Sep. 28, 2012
By Andrew Mcintyre

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


State Bar & Bar Associations


John K. Rubiner, president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, doesn't intend to lose sight of the bar's true center of grav...


Perspective


Playing down the plight of egg farm fowl

Sep. 28, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

The humorous opening, "how much room does a chicken need to do a pirouette?" frames the issue from the egg industry's perspect...


Follow these rules and you'll reduce your chances of coming to grief from the Internal Revenue Service - in your practice and ...


International


US manufacturers and sellers exiting China

Sep. 28, 2012
By Michael Leen

Adidas is closing its factory in China, Starbucks will move manufacturing of its mugs back to the U.S., and Home Depot plans t...


Labor/Employment


A federal judge granted certification to two putative classes of female Costco Wholesale Corporation employees on Tuesday, re...


Judges and Judiciary


The election of assistant presiding judge of Los Angeles County Superior Court has turned increasingly contentious as the coun...


Three prominent defense attorneys based in San Francisco have been accused of making "demonstrably false" claims in an ongoing...


Litigation


A federal judge said Hewlett-Packard Co.'s shareholders did not prove directors gave an excessive severance package to former ...


California Supreme Court


Employment - and its parameters, limitations and conditions - is one dominant theme among the civil cases pending before the s...


Corporate


OpenX Technologies Inc., a Los Angeles-based provider of digital and mobile advertising technology, has appointed its first ch...


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


Children of lawful immigrants whose bids to accompany their parents to the United States were stalled by paperwork delays got ...


Large Firms


Ex-Luce Forward lawyers sacked as McKenna downsizes

Sep. 28, 2012
By Alexandra Schwappach

Six months after merging with Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP has shed 15 lawyers nat...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Sep. 27, 2012
By Connie Lopezn

The Stonecrest office building, located at 9640 Granite Ridge Drive in San Diego, scored $4.2 million in first mortgage refina...


Corporate


Online games publisher announces new GC

Sep. 27, 2012
By David Mc Afee

Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a Redwood City-based online games publisher, announced Tuesday the appointment of its first ...


The Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate is seeking to hire Jones Day partner Bruce Bennett to pursue a cut of the legal fees from t...


Internet company 3taps Inc. responded this week to Craigslist Inc.'s claims of copyright infringement by calling the lawsuit a...


Litigation


A Los Angeles County judge on Tuesday struck down film financier David Bergstein's $100 million complaint against two law firm...


Law Practice


Organization retains law firm as counsel

Sep. 27, 2012
By David Mc Afee

The California Center for Sustainable Energy has selected Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as its outside general counsel. ...