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Alternative Dispute Resolution


The first thing Riverside County Superior Court Judge Michael B. Donner told a courtroom packed with trial-ready lawyers on a ...


Law Practice


Immunity Law Alters Thrust of Wiretap Case

Aug. 23, 2008
By John Roemer

U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of San Francisco will decide whether Congress acted constitutionally in granting telecoms...


When a person is vindicated and receives compensation for unlawful incarceration, recent IRS releases suggest it may be taxabl...


Arbitrator Profile


Neutral Robert A. Merring played in the Rose Bowl twice, on New Year's Day 1971 and 1972. ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Aug. 22, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

San Diego's Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch has added three attorneys to its business and technology team.


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Deal With It

Aug. 22, 2008
By Alexia Garamfalvin

Shareholder activism hits a bump in the road.


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Letters to the Editor

Aug. 22, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Hypocrisy is on display in calling for boxer to sign off on federal judge’s nomination


Appellate Practice


Webster Burke Kinnaird, aka Buzz, has spent the last three decades reinventing the once lowly position of a court attorney. ...


Law Practice


Lawyers Peer Into the Future of Carbon

Aug. 22, 2008
By Fiona Smith

The amount of greenhouse gases a company produces doesn't carry a price tag now, but it will soon. ...


Law Practice


Prominent antitrust litigator Darryl Snider jumped from Heller Ehrman to the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Federal Court Rejects Medi-Cal Cuts

Aug. 22, 2008
By Evan George

A federal judge has halted the state's most recent Medi-Cal cuts by issuing an injunction that restores the reimbursement rate...


Law Practice


Billionaire's Testimony a Relative Bust

Aug. 22, 2008
By Alan Mittelstaedtn

Despite the anticipation surrounding the wealthiest Angeleno's appearance in federal court Wednesday, Kirk Kerkorian's actual ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Energizing Everything Under the Sun

Aug. 22, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The challenge for all levels of government is to figure out how to promote the development of solar energy in a responsible ma...


Web Exclusive - A federal appeals court stepped into a long-running fight between environmentalists and the state over air qua...


Law Practice


Web Exclusive - In a first-of-its kind ruling, a federal judge in San Jose says the U.S. government's selective targeting of m...


Litigation


The lead attorney for Mattel urged a federal jury Wednesday to force a competitor to pay his client nearly $2 billion in damag...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


The sacrifices of a 1970s farmworker eventually established a procedure that has been used to protect the rights of political ...


Law Practice


Boycott Disrupts Law School Event

Aug. 22, 2008
By Pat Broderick

A boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt has spurred the Association of American Law Schools to move all of its annual conferen...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Fixing Our Immigration Courts: Child's Play?

Aug. 22, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

If the Justice Department won’t clean up its own immigration mess, then lawyers zealously representing aggrieved immigration c...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Aug. 21, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Four Thelen Reid project finance partners have joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff in San Francisco.


Judicial Profile


The Survivor

Aug. 21, 2008
By Noah Barronn

Whether he's restoring Civil War rifles or rebuilding his home from the ashes of an accidental fire, Judge Wayne R. Parrish br...


For the second time in less than a year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rebuked a prominent Los Angeles immigration...


Law Practice


An Unlikely Alliance of Guns and Gay Rights

Aug. 21, 2008
By Rebecca Beyer

Noemi Robinson is a member of the Pink Pistols, a gay advocacy group for guns as self-defense. She has children and keeps her ...


Litigation


Middle-aged and elderly television writers who accused studios and talent agencies of age discrimination have reached the firs...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A former San Jose mayor, an assemblywoman and the general counsel for a Silicon Valley tech giant all came to the defense of e...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


SAFETY First

Aug. 21, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The SAFETY Act represents a rare opportunity to minimize or eliminate the potentially devastating liability associated with te...


Law Practice


Wiretap Expert Unsure If Tapes Were Doctored

Aug. 21, 2008
By Alan Mittelstaedtn

A renowned forensic audio expert testified Tuesday that he could not determine if the recorded conversations between attorney ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A Different Kind of Hero

Aug. 21, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The attorneys who stood up to the government's appalling military commissions should be applauded for taking on great risk to ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A state appellate court was right to recognize that no child should have wait for the day when his or her birth father is reha...


Law Practice


Government Supports Bid for Porn Retrial

Aug. 21, 2008
By Nicolas Taborekn

Prosecutors have opposed a double jeopardy claim by accused pornographer Ira Isaacs, whose federal obscenity case resulted in...