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In-House Counsel


Staying Social and Private

Aug. 13, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

Karyn R. Smith : Zynga Game Network Inc. ...


In-House Counsel


Creating a More Ethical Culture

Aug. 12, 2010
By Ciaran Mcevoyn

KLA-Tencor : Brian M. Martin


In-House Counsel


In-House Counsel

Aug. 12, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Read our list of the state's Top 10 most innovative in-house lawyers of 2010. Plus, law firm leaders reach across the boardroo...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Movers And Dealmakers

Aug. 12, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

While Archer Norris' new Sacramento office at 301 University Ave. accommodates the firm's expansion into the regional market, ...


Perspective


Perhaps insight into drafting strategies will clarify the controversy over changes to our Rules of Professional Conduct, by Ro...


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


Overreaching by federal agents eager to nail steroid-using baseball players provoked new judge-written electronic evidence rul...


Government


Govenor Appeals Ban on Furloughs

Aug. 12, 2010
By Cat Ho

The Schwarzenegger administration Tuesday appealed an Alameda County judge's decision to temporarily bar new furloughs for sta...


Civil Rights


Group to Appeal Prop. 8 Ruling

Aug. 12, 2010
By John Roemer

Advocates for Faith and Freedom, a Christian legal group representing Imperial County, says it will appeal U.S. District Judge...


Intellectual Property


Google, Yahoo Win in Patent Case

Aug. 12, 2010
By Craig Andersonn

The companies sued a patent holding company that had been one of their most persistent legal adversaries. ...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Patients Push for Fabry Drug Fix

Aug. 12, 2010
By Mandy Jacksonn

Patients who take an enzyme replacement therapy the reduces the symptoms of the genetic disorder want the government to use a ...


Discipline


'Gamble' on Case Ends With Loss

Aug. 12, 2010
By Laura Ernden

A Fresno attorney "gambled and lost" with his client's employment discrimination case, a state appellate court ruled last week...


Entertainment & Sports


Hearing Set on Class in Video Suit

Aug. 12, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

A potential class of gamers who claim they paid excessively high prices for interactive football games they bought from Electr...


Judges and Judiciary


Vote Helps Judges Become Defenders

Aug. 12, 2010
By Sandra Hernandezn

Los Angeles County is seeking legislative changes to allow judges to become public defenders after a Superior Court judge foun...


Entertainment & Sports


Guild Reaches Deal on Foreign Levies

Aug. 12, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

The Screen Actors Guild has reached a tentative settlement with its members who accused the union in a lawsuit of withholding ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


ABA Delegates Support Gay Marriage

Aug. 12, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

of a U.S. judge's landmark ruling striking down a California ban on same-sex marriage. ...


Perspective


Public agencies have a new test to protect against liability for nondisclosure of relevant information to bidders, by Randy Pa...


Perspective


Hitting the "patent lottery" might become harder if Congress passes damages legislation with teeth, by Chris Marchese and Olga...


Labor/Employment


It's a safe bet that the 9th Circuit will expand the use of waiver to grant benefits to ERISA plan participants, by Robert J. ...


Change is in the air for the application of quasi-judicial immunity, by Janet L. Everson and Bryan L. P. Saalfeld of Murphy Pe...


Judges and Judiciary


Law 2020 and Beyond: Perspective Is Everything

Aug. 12, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Technology could help the state's judicial system achieve more with less, by Sanford Jossen. ...


Corporate


Judge Says Overdraft Fees Illegal

Aug. 12, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

Wells Fargo & Co. must pay $203 million to California customers who paid fees based on the bank's policy of processing tra...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Oxygen Chamber Makers War Over Market

Aug. 12, 2010
By Emma Gallegosn

A false advertising dispute between California companies that make hyperbaric chambers could have unintended consequences: hig...


Energy Law


Congress approved legislation Tuesday that will prevent teacher layoffs and extend Medicaid payments to states, but the move c...


Judicial Profile


Jeffrey G. Bennett

Aug. 12, 2010
By Pat Alston

Jeffrey G. Bennett was a cop and a prosecutor before becoming a Ventura County judge. His laid-back surfer looks should not co...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Therapies using controversial embryonic stem cells that made paralyzed rats walk in lab tests now are one step closer to helpi...


Perspective


Careful, anything said in the workplace can and will be used against you. The state Supreme Court makes it harder for plaintif...


Investments


Less than a year after eBay Inc. sold a majority of its stake in real-time telecommunications service Skype A.G. to an investm...


Constitutional Law


While the California Constitution allowed voters to ban same-sex marriage, the federal constitution is not as flexible, by M. ...


U.S. Supreme Court


Appointment For Solicitor General Not Expected Soon

Aug. 11, 2010
By Lawrence Hurleyn

The White House is not likely to rush into appointing a permanent successor to Elena Kagan as solicitor general after her elev...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The group's 550-member house of delegates voted to urge trial and appellate judges to distinguish between "prosecutorial misco...