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Large Firms


Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward Kronish laid off 58 staff members, constituting a 7 percent reduction of its staff workforce na...


Entertainment & Sports


Judge Gives Preliminary OK to Writers' Settlement

Oct. 3, 2009
By Jean Luc Renault

A judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement between screenwriters and the Writers Guild of America West over tens o...


Environmental


EPA Pushes New Emissions Rule

Oct. 2, 2009
By Fiona Smith

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson released a proposed rule Wednesday aimed at curbing climate change. ...


Military Law


Fighting for Veteran Benefits

Oct. 2, 2009
By Sharon Liangn

David Ackerly of Inner City Law Center says the battle between veterans and obtaining service-related disability compensation ...


Military Law


Former Prisoner of War Serves the Troops

Oct. 2, 2009
By Sharon Liangn

Thomas Penfield of Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield tells the story of Lester Tenney, a Japanese prisoner o...


Corporate


Stanford Loses HIV Patent Dispute

Oct. 2, 2009
By Craig Anderson

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against Stanford University in its patent infringement lawsuit on Wednes...


Labor/Employment


Pay for Commuting And 'Off-the-Clock' Work

Oct. 2, 2009
By Sharon Liangn

Jeffrey Freedman and Elizabeth Avedikian of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore address the effect of Rutti v. Lojack Corp., Inc. ...


U.S. Supreme Court


Supreme Court Takes on Guns

Oct. 2, 2009
By Lawrence Hurleyn

The explosive issue of gun rights is back at the U.S. Supreme Court after the justices agreed Wednesday to hear whether the 2n...


Litigation


Court Allows Lawyer's Suit Against Landlord

Oct. 2, 2009
By Dhyana Levey

Lawyers representing a landlord in her fight against a high-profile plaintiff's attorney show they are ready to go all the way...


Criminal


Court Won't Review Assault Case

Oct. 2, 2009
By Laura Ernden

The California Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to hear criminal defense attorney Dennis Riordan's complaint about a flaw i...


Law Practice


O'Melveny Is Shrinking Its L.A. Headquarters

Oct. 2, 2009
By Rebecca U. Cho

O'Melveny & Myers has begun returning four floors in its original Los Angeles headquarters to building owner Tishman Speye...


Bankruptcy


Anna Nicole Smith Was No Jimmy Stewart

Oct. 2, 2009
By Sharon Liangn

Lawrence McQuillan of the Pacific Research Institute says forum shopping and lawsuit abuse has made a game out of the bankrupt...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Mediation Advocacy

Oct. 2, 2009

Marco Turk of California State University Dominguez Hills says creative lawyering skills are needed to resolve disputes in med...


Government


Plea to Senate: New Judges Needed

Oct. 2, 2009
By Robert Iafolla

A California federal judge told a Senate panel Wednesday that the state's Eastern District is the most overloaded in the count...


Criminal


The State Supreme court on Wednesday set a date for oral arguments in a two-year-old challenge to Jessica's Law, after an arti...


Securities


A unanimous U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a district judge's decision to suppress all statements tha...


Criminal


Sex Offenders Avoid Housing Rule

Oct. 1, 2009
By Greg Katzn

Trial judges have quietly been allowing paroled sex offenders to live near places where children gather, as they await directi...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Reining in Digital Books Space

Oct. 1, 2009
By Sharon Liangn

Duane Valz of Chadbourne & Parke addresses the ramifications of the Google settlement and the future of digital book distr...


U.S. Supreme Court


The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear 10 cases for the fall term ...


International


Tiff Over Tire Tariffs

Oct. 1, 2009
By Sharon Liangn

James Wong of Chinney Capital Ltd assesses the China tire tariffs from the Chinese perspective. ...


Government


Bill Aims to Repeal Telecom Immunity

Oct. 1, 2009
By Robert Iafolla

The legislation could revive suits in San Francisco against telecommunications companies over the Bush administration's warran...


Entertainment & Sports


Paul Hastings Ran Offense for Steelers

Oct. 1, 2009
By Pat Broderick

The San Diego office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker represented owners in the reorganization of the Pittsburgh Steel...


Judges and Judiciary


State Gets New Bankruptcy Judges

Oct. 1, 2009
By Pat Alston

Ronald H. Sargis will hear cases in the Eastern District; Catherine E. Bauer and Deborah J. Saltzman will hear cases in the Ce...


Technology & Science


Industry Reacts to Net Neutrality

Oct. 1, 2009
By Sharon Liangn

Joseph Rosenbaum of Reed Smith says an attempt to regulate Internet neutrality may risk unintended consequences. ...


Entertainment & Sports


Judge: Disney Owns Rights to Pooh

Oct. 1, 2009
By Jean Luc Renault

The decision by U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ends an 18-year battle over the rights to the Winnie the Pooh franch...


Immigration


Court Rejects Late Deportee Appeals

Oct. 1, 2009
By Sandra Hernandezn

A federal court has rejected the appeals of two immigrants who tried but failed to get their petitions to a lower court in tim...


Criminal


BioPharm Exec Is Convicted

Oct. 1, 2009
By Rebecca Beyer

In a big win for the Northern District U.S. attorney's office, InterMune's CEO was found guilty of charges stemming from a fal...


Law Practice


On average this year, offers were extended to just 79 percent of summer associates among 14 major law firms surveyed; that's 1...


Judicial Profile


JAG to Judge

Oct. 1, 2009
By Greg Katzn

Bernie C. LaForteza, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge ...


Criminal


Chad Hummel filed motions on behalf of fugitive film director Roman Polanski that may have nudged the L.A. County district att...