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Litigation


eHarmony to Include Gay Dating

Jan. 28, 2010
By Cat Ho

Online dating site eHarmony must make its Web site more welcoming to gays and lesbians under a proposed settlement filed in Lo...


Law Practice


Firms Find Opportunity In Legal Education

Jan. 27, 2010
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Many companies have cut funding for the continuing education of their in-house attorneys. Now, enterprising law firms are seek...


Top Verdicts


Top Arbitration

Jan. 27, 2010
By Lisa Kestenbaumn

Here are the five top arbitration awards.


Top Verdicts


Top Impact

Jan. 27, 2010
By Lisa Kestenbaumn

Here are the 10 verdicts with the greatest impact.


Top Verdicts


Top Dollar Verdicts

Jan. 27, 2010
By Lisa Kestenbaumn

Here are the 10 largest verdicts by dollar amount.


Top Verdicts


Top Plaintiff Verdicts

Jan. 27, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

Read our list of Top Plaintiff Verdicts for 2009, broken down by largest dollar amount, highest impact and largest arbitration...


Intellectual Property


Google Wins Verdict

Jan. 27, 2010
By Craig Anderson

Google Inc., represented by a team of Bay Area-based lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, won a defense ve...


Intellectual Property


Patent Case Moves to Delaware

Jan. 27, 2010
By Craig Anderson

Hewlett-Packard Co. and several other Silicon Valley corporations will get to fight out a patent dispute in Delaware after a T...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Yu-Gi-Oh Case Is Yu-Gi-Over

Jan. 27, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

The Upper Deck Co. reached a settlement Tuesday with Japan-based Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., where the Carlsbad-headqua...


Government


ABA Opposes Legal Aid Nominee

Jan. 27, 2010
By Robert Iafolla

The American Bar Association and a coalition of more than 70 civil rights and other legal organizations urged a Senate panel t...


Environmental


Regional EPA Chief Outlines Priorities

Jan. 27, 2010
By Fiona Smith

The federal Envirionmental Protection Agency's new West Coast chief vowed Wednesday to make it a top priority to help poor and...


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


9th Circuit Allows Reporter Firings

Jan. 27, 2010
By John Roemer

A bitter struggle over journalistic standards and union organizing at the Santa Barbara News-Press tilted toward the publisher...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Governor Says Bar Is Reforming

Jan. 27, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

Three months after he vetoed the State Bar's dues bill, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation this week that will allo...


Robert Wood of Wood & Porter discusses methods by which tax can be deferred or eliminated when contemplating sale of prope...


Litigation


Blockbuster Punitive Awards Fell Off in 2009

Jan. 27, 2010
By Laura Ernden

Attorneys say the lack of blockbuster awards last year was probably more of an anomaly than a sign that we've seen the last of...


Perspective


Back Into the Closet: Prop 8's Trial Broadcast

Jan. 27, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says conservative judges are using procedural excuses to deal with the issue o...


Perspective


Best Practices for Employee Internet Use

Jan. 27, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

With new FTC guidelines in effect, Kate Gold and Paul Gelb of Drinker Biddle & Reath suggest that employers update policie...


Labor/Employment


Gary Watt of The McNamara Law Firm and Teresa Li of UC Hastings analyze the intricacies behind obtaining relief for an injured...


Litigation


Riverside Civil Courts Reverse Backlog

Jan. 27, 2010
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win

Two years ago, Riverside County's civil courts were on life support. Attorneys commonly tabled hearings for several weeks or m...


Civil Rights


Prop. 8 Defense Stresses Stability

Jan. 27, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

On Day Two of their case, attorneys defending Proposition 8 questioned an expert witness whose testimony they are offering as ...


Family


Prop. 8 Backers Defend Ballot Box

Jan. 26, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

Even as the attorneys defending Proposition 8 officially opened their case Monday, a good portion of their work was already fi...


Intellectual Property


Patent Deemed Unenforceable

Jan. 26, 2010
By Craig Anderson

A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed a ruling that an Abbott Laboratories patent for technology used in a blood-glucose ...


Employee Benefits


Pension Board Dodges Felony Charges

Jan. 26, 2010
By Pat Broderick

Five former members of San Diego's pension board are off the hook on felony charges that they violated the state's conflict of...


Criminal


'Money Man' Spared Jail Time

Jan. 26, 2010
By Don Debenedictisn

Donald Haidl, the alleged "money man" for convicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, who testified for 10 days against his f...


Environmental


EPA Regulates NO2

Jan. 26, 2010
By Fiona Smith

The federal Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will place new curbs on smog-forming nitrogen dioxide for the first...


Corporate


Judge Dismisses Slander Case

Jan. 26, 2010
By Don Debenedictisn

An Orange County law group accused of defrauding homeowners seeking mortgage modifications cannot sue Bank of America for slan...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Prop. 63 Fails To Foster Youth, Study Says

Jan. 26, 2010
By Even George

The Mental Health Services Act has failed to aid vulnerable foster youth it was intended to help, while paying millions of dol...


Criminal


Mayor, Ex-Judge, Pleads Guilty

Jan. 26, 2010
By Greg Katzn

Longtime judge and Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn pleaded guilty Monday to a conflict of interest charge in connection with an...


Intellectual Property


Injunction Likely Against Web Host

Jan. 26, 2010
By Craig Anderson

In the wake of a $32 million jury verdict against an Internet service provider found liable for hosting Web sites that sold kn...


Entertainment & Sports


Trading Card Dispute Starts Trial

Jan. 26, 2010
By Christian Berthelsenn

Trial is set to begin today to determine how much trading card maker The Upper Deck Co. owes its former business partner for c...