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Perspective


Support Payments, It's a Question of Time

Jan. 8, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Family law attorneys Mitchell Jacobs and Jami Fosgate examine In re Marriage of Kacik and the issue of spousal and chil...


Technology & Science


Prop. 8 Trial to Get Broadcast Over YouTube

Jan. 8, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

One of the nation's highest-profile trials, featuring a challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban, will be broadcast to ...


Government


Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School says the view that a growing public deficit transfers wealth from the young people to the o...


Letter to the Editor


David Rosen of Rose, Klein & Marias explains why he believes litigation increased against the insurance industry after the...


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Jan. 7, 2010
By Lisa Kestenbaumn

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...


Perspective


Credit-Rating Agency Reform?

Jan. 7, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Mark Labaton of Kreindler & Kreindler says criticism that the House's bill does not adequately regulate credit-rating agen...


Judges and Judiciary


Justice Candace Cooper wants to go back to where it all started - Dorsey High School, in the Crenshaw neighborhood where she g...


Law Practice


Orrick Aids Tribeca Purchases

Jan. 7, 2010
By Jill Redhage

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe lawyers led by Mike Liever helped San Francisco private equity investment firm Tribeca Cos....


Mergers & Acquisitions


Latham Advises on Pizza Deal

Jan. 7, 2010
By J Lin

Latham & Watkins partners in Los Angeles advised Nestlé on its acquisition of Kraft Foods' frozen pizza business for $3.7 ...


Judges and Judiciary


Sacramento Judge Hangs on to Job - Barely

Jan. 7, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien narrowly escaped losing his job Tuesday, when the state Commission on Jud...


Obituaries


Nate Cohn

Jan. 7, 2010
By John Roemer

1918-2010 ...


Intellectual Property


China Charged With Stealing Software

Jan. 7, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

A Santa Barbara software company filed a $2.2 billion copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday against the Chinese government, a...


Intellectual Property


Card Maker Guilty of Counterfeiting

Jan. 7, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

The Upper Deck Co., a Carlsbad-based card seller, counterfeited thousands of popular Japanese animation trading cards, a feder...


Intellectual Property


Cisco Fined As Case Against It Dismissed

Jan. 7, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

A patent infringement case that spawned two defamation lawsuits against Cisco and outed the company's formerly anonymous attor...


Energy Law


After Copenhagen - What Now?

Jan. 7, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Deborah Sivas of Stanford Law School discusses responses, post-Copenhagen, to the 'endangerment finding' regarding greenhouse ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Initial roadblocks to Oracle-Sun merger show why antitrust policy convergence should be top priority write Patrick Ryan and La...


Law Practice


Don't Pay Cash for Clunkers

Jan. 7, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Julie Daniels and Robin Kardon of Major, Lindsey & Africa instruct on how to navigate today's overflowing attorney candida...


Labor/Employment


Geoffrey Sheldon and James Oldendorph ask whether formal or informal policy will be the 'operational reality' for policing emp...


Securities


Securities fraud class actions filings declined sharply as credit-crisis litigation dried up in 2009 according to a new study ...


Government


Judge Nominees Face GOP Opposition

Jan. 7, 2010
By Robert Iafolla

While U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen will likely be renominated to the district court bench in San Francisco, his chance...


Judicial Profile


Anne H. Egerton

Jan. 7, 2010
By Sandra Hernandezn

After a career in civil law, Anne H. Egerton was appointed to the bench in 2001 to handle criminal matters. Today, she feels r...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Assembly OKs Bar Dues Bill

Jan. 7, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

The California Assembly passed a bill authorizing the State's Bar's collection of dues on Monday, just days after the bar anno...


Community News


Jan. 6, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

Teams from over two dozen law firms faced off to claim the court during the Landau Lawyers League 2009 Fall Basketball Playoff...


Community News


Jan. 6, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

The 2009 Landau softball season closed with three new division champions. The team from Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard &am...


Personal Injury & Torts


Fee Award Upheld in Cell Phone Case

Jan. 6, 2010
By Laura Ernden

A state appellate court Monday granted $2.5 million in attorney fees to class action lawyers who got Sprint to agree to unlock...


U.S. Supreme Court


Immunity Case Settles

Jan. 6, 2010
By Lawrence Hurleyn

There will be no U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major prosecutorial immunity case after the parties settled, the court clerk a...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Valley Lawyers Lead Pharma Merger

Jan. 6, 2010
By Jill Redhage

Merz Pharma Group, a private German pharmaceutical company, acquired San Mateo-based medical aesthetics company BioForm Medica...


Transportation


Green Groups Sue Port Over Pollution

Jan. 6, 2010
By Fiona Smith

Environmental groups have sued the City of Long Beach and its harbor commission to block a recent settlement between the Port ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Antitrust Probe of Media Deals Urged

Jan. 6, 2010
By Robert Iafolla

Consumer groups pressed Congress and federal authorities Monday to investigate an initiative from media companies that potenti...


Immigration


Detainee Class Stands; Suit Can Proceed

Jan. 6, 2010
By Sandra Hernandezn

A federal appeals court on Monday let stand its earlier decision to grant class certification to foreign nationals who are sui...