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Government


Court: CHP Can Be Liable for Gruesome Pics

Feb. 3, 2010
By Don Debenedictisn

Plaintiffs want to hold the highway patrol and two dispatchers liable for gruesome auto-accident photos of a teenager's decapi...


Constitutional Law


Viewing Citizens United At 30,000 Feet

Feb. 3, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Glenn Smith of California Western School of Law says Citizens United v. FEC is an example of recurring issues facing constitut...


Law Practice


Attorney Networking: Making It Personal

Feb. 3, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Legal career specialist Todd Drucker says effective networking requires lessening the distinctions between work and play, labo...


Perspective


Separating Tax Myths From Reality

Feb. 3, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

David Howard of Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel explains the truth behind three common tax myths that just won't die. ...


Immigration


Stricter Immigration Laws Strain Courts

Feb. 3, 2010
By Sandra Hernandezn

Ramped up immigration enforcement has led to growing dockets and strained resources in the nation's immigration and federal co...


Government


Obama Seeks Increase in DOJ Budget

Feb. 3, 2010
By Robert Iafolla

The 5.4 percent proposed increase for fiscal 2011 includes enough money to add more than 200 new lawyers mainly devoted to pro...


Sex offender parolees on Monday lost their bid to get out of restrictions in Jessica's Law that forbid them from living within...


Judicial Profile


Fumiko Hachiya Wasserman

Feb. 3, 2010
By Sandra Hernandezn

Fumiko Hachiya Wasserman brings an innate sense of fairness to her role as an appellate judge.


Law Practice


Blind Woman Wins Fight To Pursue Her Dream

Feb. 2, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

A federal judge on Friday indicated he would grant a blind UCLA School of Law graduate's request to take the California bar ex...


Corporate Counsel


David Friedman

Feb. 2, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Summit EntertainmentSanta Monica ...


Entertainment & Sports


Jury Finds Vivendi Liable

Feb. 2, 2010
By Lisa Kestenbaumn

A jury in Manhattan federal court Friday found that French conglomerate Vivendi SA, which owns both the world's largest music ...


Entertainment & Sports


MGM Gets Delay on Debt Payment

Feb. 2, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

Debt-burdened movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced Friday that its lenders would extend by two months a forbearance peri...


Government


Chapman Law Dean to Run for State A.G.

Feb. 2, 2010
By Don Debenedictisn

John C. Eastman said Friday he is stepping down as dean of the Chapman University School of Law to run for state attorney gene...


U.S. Supreme Court


Trial Lawyer Turns to High Court

Feb. 2, 2010
By Lawrence Hurleyn

Los Angeles trial lawyer Pierce O'Donnell is still hoping that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will affirm a lower court...


Discipline


Milbank Sued for Negligence

Feb. 2, 2010
By Sara Randazzon

Two investment firms are suing Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy for professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and b...


Government


Attorney Jeffrey Lowe says the filibuster rule has led many to believe that the Senate can no longer function as an effective ...


Perspective


The Inmate Export Enterprise

Feb. 2, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of the Law asks whether out-of-state incarceration will really reduce expenditure per inma...


Labor/Employment


When counseling an employee with a history of unacceptable performance, careful documentation is key, writes John McLachlan of...


Government


It's a tense atmosphere in the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office as the 979-member office stares down a proposed 10 percent b...


Investments


Wilson Advises Tesla on $100 Million IPO

Feb. 2, 2010
By Jill Redhage

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lawyers filed initial public offering papers Friday to take luxury electric carmaker Tesl...


Energy Law


Nicholas Targ and Elizabeth Lake of Holland & Knight discuss the issue of solar energy development opportunities in the Mo...


Community News


Feb. 1, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

David A. DeGroot, left, and John C. Yoo at an event of the San Francisco Lawyers Chapter of The Federalist Society Thursday ni...


Law Practice


On the Move

Feb. 1, 2010
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...


Perspective


Boycott Threatens Independent Judiciary

Jan. 30, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

District Attorney Dolores Carr appears to have forgotten that justice is not about winning or losing, write Kathleen Ridolfi a...


Perspective


Decreasing Employment-Related Litigation

Jan. 30, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Salvatore Picariello of Pepper Hamilton advises on how to improve an employee's work experience while also protecting the empl...


Perspective


How Does Gender Play Into Mediation?

Jan. 30, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Mediator and neutral David Miller tackles the issue of gender stereotypes and its role in the mediation process. ...


Perspective


Jessica Vapnek of DPK Consulting provides a first person account of what it felt like in Haiti during and after the earthquake...


California Supreme Court


Sex Offenders Sentences Questioned

Jan. 30, 2010
By Laura Ernden

The California Supreme Court signaled Thursday that locking up sexually violent predators indefinitely might be unconstitution...


What price victory? That's the focus of a 15-year-old case pitting the Metropolitan Transportation Agency against an engineeri...


Community News


Jan. 29, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

At the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights' annual Martin Luther King Jr. award luncheon in San Francisco, keynote speaker and...