Alternative Dispute Resolution
Identifying and Managing Histrionic Personality Clients
By Alexander Phersonn
How to support a client with histrionic personality disorder while maintaining control of your case. By Paul Fisher of Pepperd...
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP nabbed patent litigator Andrea Weiss Jeffries from Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in...
Partners at the Peitzman Weg & Kempinsky LLP bankruptcy boutique attribute their 12-year success rate to conservative grow...
Penalties U.S. taxpayers should know about if they fail to file a foreign bank account report. By Dennis Brager of Brager Tax ...
Winston & Strawn LLP is holding an all-hands partnership meeting today, according to an attorney familiar with the matter,...
Kendall Coffey shares lessons learned from his high-profile trials, and a behind the scenes look at tactics and strategies. By...
A recent decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to grant attorney fees in a longshore workers' comp case could put ...
When Justice Carlos R. Moreno leaves the state Supreme Court next week he'll start work at Irell & Manella, a respected Lo...
Tension between many trial court judges and the Judicial Council has risen to an all-time high, highlighted by the introductio...
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a case against Bank of America Corp., rejecting investors' claims that the bank failed t...
Are poison pills becoming a tool for boards to limit shareholders from exercising their rights? By David M. Grinberg of Manatt...
It may not be the secret weapon to advancement in the cutthroat world of law firms, but some women have found having a stay-at...
The Center for Food Safety has filed another lawsuit challenging a decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow the...
Claims seeking to reassert copyright and trademark protections on the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop were denied by a thre...
Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson LLP, a new, partners-only intellectual property litigation boutique, announced Wednesday i...
UCI School of Law 1Ls already know the importance of public service. Tuesday, they learned the ins and outs of dinner service ...
The federal government filed civil charges alleging two former Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP and a finance specialist used...
Corporate
Businesses and Plaintiffs Beware: The Defense Perspective on Kwikset
By Alexander Phersonn
The fight over standing requirements for bringing consumer class actions is not over, defendants still have ammunition. By Dan...
Perspective
Professional H-1B Visas Now Subject to Legal Assessment on Federal Export Control Rules
By Alexander Phersonn
Starting now, hiring foreign nationals will require more interaction between a company's legal and human resources department....
A leading Jewish charity failed to prove the late Ameriquest Mortgage founder Roland E. Arnall promised to give it $18 million...
Muslim leaders and the ACLU have filed a lawsuit accusing the FBI of violating the First Amendment by paying an informant to ...
The law has not kept up with employment trends, so how can you? Here are three essential guidelines that have emerged. By Garr...
The U.S. Supreme Court struggled over setting a standard for the inducement of patent infringement that protects intellectual-...
Appellate Practice
Can Denial of Summary Judgment Based on Qualified Immunity Be Reviewed?
By Alexander Phersonn
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling reinforces an important principle in issue preservation that no civil litigator should forget. By ...
In a decision that's bound to disappoint criminal defense attorneys, the U.S. Supreme Court approved California's non-specific...
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that following safety standards does not insulate Mazda Motor Corp. from liability fo...
President Barack Obama legally abandoned the federal ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday, but legal experts said the shift will...
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The number of law school applications received nationwide is down by nearly 13 percent, preliminary data shows, though some Ca...
Lucas & Haverkamp, a firm that specializes in litigation on behalf of corporations and public entities, signed a lease for...