The women of the judiciary rely on each other, even when they disagree on the issues. ...
Responding to Arthur Gilbert's May 7 column "What's in a number?" By Harry Elias of the San Diego County Superior Court ...
Litigation
Ninth Circuit rejects 'selective waiver’ of attorney-client privilege
By Michael Leen
Involuntary production does not waive the privilege, but producing subphoenaed documents is not necessarily involuntary. By Ch...
A few pointers for effectively levying property to satisfy judgments. By Ira M. Friedman and Abby Friedman of Friedman & F...
The Court's twisted reasoning attempts to distinguish "actions" and "actions for damages." By Jessica Weisel and Gary M. McLau...
A federal judge Tuesday reaffirmed his order requiring court officials to provide discovery about whether Hispanics are underr...
Corporations with global supply chains often do business with companies that are potentially violating labor laws. By Anne Ric...
Administrative/Regulatory
Mad Cow in Central Cal: Is USDA program adequate?
By Michael Leen
Recent discovery of mad cow disease in California questions the effectiveness of USDA safeguards. By Leslie T. Krasny of Kelle...
An effort to limit disability access lawsuits against California businesses passed its first legislative hurdle Tuesday. ...
A memo written 25 years ago by an earnest associate led to an annual fund-raising effort at Munger, Tolles & Olson that th...
The trustees of a nutrition entrepreneur's vast estate have successfully defended a lawsuit seeking more than $350 million in ...
Criminal
Death penalty: putting the fiancial viability of courts in doubt
By Michael Leen
It turns out that simply replacing the death penalty with permanent imprisonment can save significant money and court resource...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday announced insider trading charges against a Hollywood movie producer an...
Robert E. Coyle, the icon of federal courthouse construction, died late Monday night. He was 82. ...
Chief Circuit Judge Emeritus James Robert Browning, an iconic jurist who moved the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals into the...
A conference call Tuesday coordinated by management at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP alerted lawyers their last paychecks are coming...
Google Inc. did not infringe two Oracle Corp. -owned patents , its attorney argued Tuesday in opening statements of the second...
Capitol sources said the chances of the courthouse construction dollars being used to plug the state's budget hole now seems a...
Since companies have long limited how often workers can make personal calls, curbing smartphone use seems a logical next step....
Intellectual Property
Judge rules against Oracle on fair use question in Google trial
By Jill Redhage
With the decision, Oracle's potential damages in the copyright phase could shrink from hundreds of millions of dollars to stat...
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