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Law Practice


9th Circuit Reinstates Medi-Cal Drug Cuts

Jul. 19, 2008
By Evan George

Web Exclusive - Web Exclusive - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a 10 percent reduction in drug reimbursme...


Appellate Practice


Jurors Side With Mattel in Bratz Case

Jul. 19, 2008
By Jason W. Armstrong

A federal court jury Thursday agreed with Mattel Inc. that one of its former designers created the concept for the successful ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Deal With It

Jul. 18, 2008
By Alexia Garamfalvin

Drumming Up Business in a Down Market


Law Practice


High Court Invalidates Logging Plan

Jul. 18, 2008
By Fiona Smith

The California Supreme Court Thursday dealt a blow to Pacific Lumber's logging plans for its vast forests in Humboldt County.


Firm Watch


On the Move

Jul. 18, 2008
By Jill Redhage

Los Angeles entertainment and real estate law firm Greenberg Glusker named a new leader of its litigation practice, Lee A. Dre...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


We deserve a real energy policy that recognizes that markets and contracts produce power. Regulators and rhetoric do not, writ...


Criminal


Jury Selected for Christensen Trial

Jul. 18, 2008
By Zack Vaneyckn

A federal judge empaneled a jury of seven men and five women for the trial of attorney Terry N. Christensen and former celebri...


Judicial Profile


Turning a Corner

Jul. 18, 2008
By Sandra Hernandezn

Former highway patrolman Edward H. Bullard traded his badge for a robe and now the sits on the bench in Santa Maria's Superior...


Banking


Plaintiffs' lawyers suing IndyMac Bancorp in a securities-fraud class action filed a motion Wednesday, asking a judge not to d...


Law Practice


An Association of Corporate Counsel event this month seeks to broaden the horizons of attorneys dissatisfied in their careers ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Out of Focus

Jul. 18, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The specific fact pattern necessary to trigger an insured's right to Cumis counsel and 2860's rate cap and arbitration provisi...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


L.A. Sues Blue Shield, Slams State

Jul. 18, 2008
By Evan George

Blue Shield of California has illegally canceled the medical coverage of least 850 of its sick policyholders since 2002, accor...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Minding the Cap

Jul. 18, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The specific fact pattern necessary to trigger an insured's right to Cumis counsel and 2860's rate cap and arbitration provisi...


Litigation


An Insider Helps Hollywood's Perplexed

Jul. 18, 2008
By Nicolas Taborekn

Amid filmdom's labor turmoil, former Screen Actors Guild general counsel David White is providing advice to lawyers with actor...


Law Practice


The California Supreme Court Wednesday refused to block a November ballot initiative aimed at overturning the court's landmark...


Law Practice


Plan for Bar Discipline Draws Ire

Jul. 18, 2008
By Amy Yarbroughn

Critics say unproven and even false accusations would remain public for the duration of a case, a process that could last year...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Jul. 17, 2008
By Jill Redhage

John R. Epperson, special counsel at Farella Braun + Martel in San Francisco, was appointed to the executive committee of the ...


Media


The trial for Terry N. Christensen is set to begin today with jury selection. Christensen is the sole lawyer charged in connec...


Litigation


Reality TV's Bid for Respect Gets Legal Lift

Jul. 17, 2008
By Nicolas Taborekn

Reality TV workers brought their fight for better benefits and improved on-the-job conditions to San Francisco on Tuesday, and...


Corporate


Congress joined the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday in examining antitrust concerns raised by an advertising deal between Goo...


Environmental


As the state hammers out the details of its plan to combat climate change, a move to set a strict cap on greenhouse gas emissi...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


You've Got Distractions

Jul. 17, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

To write well, one needs uninterrupted time. That is difficult to achieve in the e-mail era, writes Robert D. Brain - Forum Co...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Faced with an increasingly painless death penalty and an increasingly harsh prison alternative, decision-makers in capital cas...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Filling the Gaps

Jul. 17, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

An umbrella policy can be an extremely valuable policy for an insured because it may fill gaps that otherwise exist in a prima...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Los Angeles construction and real estate ADR panel Arbitration Mediation Conciliation Center has beefed up its practice by mer...


Law Practice


Discovery Law Puts AG at Odds With DAs

Jul. 17, 2008
By Laura Ernden

Attorney General Jerry Brown's office usually works side-by-side with prosecutors defending criminal convictions on appeal. No...


Education


President Abraham Lincoln - on trial for exceeding his Constitutional powers - was found not guilty earlier this month on all ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Jul. 16, 2008
By Jill Redhage

Reed Smith snatched Fenwick & West's Sergio Garcia to be a partner in its San Francisco office. Previously, Garcia co-chai...


California Supreme Court


Questions Abound Around Same-Sex 'I Dos'

Jul. 16, 2008
By David Houstonn

Deb Wald has news for Wisconsin's lesbian and gay couples planning to come to California to get hitched: You could face nine m...


California Supreme Court


The California Supreme Court Monday made it harder for local governments to raise money for everything from preserving open sp...