The New Lawyer Supplement
Program prepares students interested in entertainment
By Erica E. Phillips
USC's Entertainment Law Society is a student-run group that prepares young lawyers interested in the entertainment industry - ...
Law schools are starting to teach students practical legal skills for careers in corporate law as a way to ensure their educat...
After a successful college baseball career and a stint in the minors, Jonathan Ash is ready to take on the law as a first-year...
As clinical education continues to expand, law schools in the California are dedicating more resources to their programs. ...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Perception is reality when managers decide who makes partner
By Casey Sullivan
To make partner or not to make partner. That is the question on the minds of many law firm managing partners looking at batche...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Stanford law students take on real policy issues
By Kevin Lee
The criminal law course taught at Stanford Law School this fall is different than most other research classes, with students ...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Canines help dog-tired students through exams
By Pat Broderick
Jackie Falk, a stressed out first-year student at the University of San Francisco School of Law, needed a breather. So when sh...
Most people don't know what goes on in our dependency court system, and that needs to change. By Sanford Jossen ...
Law Practice
Step it up: 'Tis the season for job search networking
By Karen Natividadn
Networking during the holiday season can lay the groundwork for job search success in the New Year. By Valerie Fontaine of Sel...
Perspective
General principles for advertising injury coverage in IP lawsuits
By Sharon Liangn
Policyholders are increasingly looking to advertising injury to find coverage. By Marc Feldman of Luce Forward Hamilton & ...
An new, unprecedented state law targets forced labor. By Michael L. Gallion and David Van Pelt of Sheppard Mullin Richter &...
A Paso Robles woman was sentenced to six years in federal prison for defrauding the U.S. Department of Education by applying f...
The New Lawyer Supplement
International students generate revenue for law schools
By Saul Sugarmann
Law schools are capitalizing on International students seeking a legal education in the United States, especially in light of ...
San Diego Gas and Electric has proposed to the California Public Utilities Commission that it be allowed to charge solar panel...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit combines Prop. 8 appeals
By John Roemer
The 9th Circuit panel hearing the Proposition 8 appeal agreed Monday to consolidate that case with a related appeal over forme...
California Courts of Appeal
Panel upholds sanctions against attorneys in molestation case
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate court Monday upheld discovery sanctions against attorneys for United States Swimming Inc. for failing to tur...
A hotly contested state Supreme Court case decided Monday could make it even harder for cash-strapped local governments to rol...
Lawyers for foreign plaintiffs who joined the stampede of economic damages claims against Toyota Motor Corp. in federal court ...
A Charles Schwab Corp. executive accused of misleading customers who invested in the YieldPlus Fund has settled civil charges ...
California Courts of Appeal
Panel upholds sanctions against San Francisco firm
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate court rebuked a San Francisco law firm Monday for its handling of a dispute between an Illinois patent attor...
The state appeals court heard arguments Monday in a case that threatens a hard-fought deal to divvy up shrinking Colorado Rive...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gilead leaves California attorneys in the cold for $11 billion buy
By Robert Pierce
In a continuation of a trend in favor of New York attorneys on large deals, none of the lawyers on Gilead's $11 billion purcha...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Limits placed on class-action awards to charity
By John Roemer
Awarding to charity part of a class-action settlement that cannot be distributed to class members is OK as long as the chariti...