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Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Jun. 25, 2012
By Seena Nikravan


Firm Watch


On the Move

Jun. 25, 2012
By Ryne Hodkowski

Sausalito-based Glassdoor.com, a social jobs and career community, added Allyson Willoughby as general counsel and senior vice...


Judicial Profile


William A. Fletcher

Jun. 25, 2012
By John Roemer

When he's not enjoying a good tabloid, William A. Fletcher brings a scholarly eye to the circuit.


Judicial Profile


Desiree C. Bruce-Lyle

Jun. 24, 2012
By Pat Alston

Judge Desiree Bruce-Lyle holds re-entry program participants accountable but praises their success.


Environmental


First it was fighting to clean up litter and graffiti. Then it was kick-starting a nationwide campaign to ban trans-fats in fo...


Litigation


A wide swath of counties in California seek more than $50 million in an Alameda County Superior Court lawsuit against national...


Perspective


Cognitive biases can have a profound effect upon the mediation process. By Robert Mann of ADR Services ...


Community News


Public Law Center honors volunteers

Jun. 23, 2012
By Ryne Hodkowski

Orange County's Public Law Center held its Volunteers for Justice Dinner on June 18. More than 815 guests heard keynote remar...


Discipline


Bar recommends disbarment for attorney

Jun. 23, 2012
By Don J. De Benedictis

The lawyer who told evicted homeowners to break back into their foreclosed houses should be disbarred, the State Bar Court rul...


Solo and Small Firms


Jacobsen & McElroy PC

Jun. 23, 2012
By Emily Green

Jacobsen & McElroy had some key goals: flexibility, open and constant communication, ownership of cases, supportive work e...


Labor/Employment


High court issues narrow ruling on union dues

Jun. 23, 2012
By Brian Sumersn

The court dealt a blow to public sector unions Thursday, likely making it more difficult for them to raise dues midyear or iss...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


James M. McKanna

Jun. 23, 2012
By Susan Mcraen

In starting his neutral career from scratch, the former litigator heeded his father's advice: 'It's not how many people you kn...


U.S. Supreme Court


Court rules in crack sentencing-reform case

Jun. 23, 2012
By Robert Iafolla

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a jury must find any facts that a judge uses to increase a criminal fine and that t...


Corporate


California lawyers wed Link_A_Media, Hynix

Jun. 23, 2012
By Andrew Mcintyre

Morrison & Foerster LLP lawyers aided in the sale of Santa Clara-based media storage company Link_A_Media Devices Corp. to...


Community News


The Northern California chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers held a cocktail reception and dinner at the Four ...


Intellectual Property


Judge urges Samsung and Apple to narrow case

Jun. 23, 2012
By Craig Anderson

There will be a June 29 hearing on Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction blocking the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 ...


Law Practice


Prominent appellate practitioner Jon B. Eisenberg is dissolving his two-man shop and returning to his former firm, Horvitz &a...


Real Estate/Development


Jury orders utility to pay property owners

Jun. 23, 2012
By Jason W. Armstrong

In a fiercely litigated eminent domain case, a jury ordered San Diego Gas & Electric to pay a pair of local property owner...


Books


Declining Prospects

Jun. 23, 2012
By Michael Leen

The growth of major law firms in the US and their increased utilization of leverage are two of the most significant changes th...


Litigation


Ruling that the trial judge may not undertake a rehearing with "total objectivity," an appellate court has vacated a $55 milli...


Government


Fannie and Freddie lose a taxing ordeal

Jun. 23, 2012
By Karen Natividadn

A decision out of Michigan has emboldened California jurisdictions to challenge Fannie and Freddie tax exemptions. By Tyler Do...


Government


State budget deal struck

Jun. 23, 2012
By Emily Green

Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislators struck an agreement on the state budget Thursday, setting the stage for a finalized bud...


Law Practice


A San Diego company that hired Holland & Knight LLP for three months of legal services now claims the law firm charged leg...


Judges and Judiciary


Court leaders begin to assess critical report

Jun. 23, 2012
By Evan Georgen

The state Judicial Council on Thursday heard a formal presentation of the wide-ranging criticisms of the courts' administratio...


Labor/Employment


Wal-Mart faces claims it spied on union effort

Jun. 23, 2012
By Brian Sumersn

A simmering feud between Wal-Mart and an influential labor coalition has kicked up unprecedented legal questions - and a publi...


U.S. Supreme Court


The Supreme Court left undisturbed the considerable shadow the FCC casts over broadcasters in a digital age, unanimously strik...


Criminal


Jun. 22, 2012
By Henry Meier

A California attorney was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for extortion and obstruction of justice.


Law Practice


Part Five of a five part series. By Edwin B. Reeser


Government


Though critics paint the crackdown as a top-down political directive from the Obama administration, a closer look shows the pr...


Corporate Counsel


Martin Felli

Jun. 22, 2012
By Paul Jones

General Counsel for Ecotality Inc. San Francisco ...