California firm Rutan & Tucker has elevated six of its attorneys to partner in its Costa Mesa office.
State Bar & Bar Associations
On Deck for the Giants, Still Batting for ABA
By John Roemer
ABA President William H. Neukom, the San Francisco Giants' new managing general partner, took pains to clarify that his baseba...
David B. Gelfound was appointed to the bench after a losing campaign for his judgeship. He had the support of many judges he'd...
Criminal defendants might be getting shortchanged by not always having juries that reflect a fair representation of San Diego'...
A woman will be tried for the second time for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury about her contact with one of Anthony Pe...
No rules of appellate practice are more important than those governing the filing of the notice of appeal, write Margaret Grig...
U.S. Supreme Court
Justices Reverse 9th Circuit in LAX Bombing Plot
By Alexia Garamfalvin
In a victory for the Bush administration, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday reinstated the full conviction against an al-Qaida ope...
As E. Robert Wallach sees it, there's room in San Francisco for two great bar associations. ...
A San Francisco County Superior Court judge trebled a portion of a jury's verdict in favor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian o...
Litigation
Man Who Pleaded 'No Contest' Permitted to Sue for Damages
By Nicolas Taborekn
A man who pleaded "no contest" to resisting arrest can still sue for damages based on the arresting officer's alleged use of e...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Bar Group Seeks to Restructure Court's Mediation Panel
By Greg Katzn
For almost as long as the Los Angeles County Court has had a pro bono panel of mediators to help resolve the deluge of cases i...
Litigation
As Trial Nears, Mattel Settles With Designer in Bratz Doll Case
By Jason W. Armstrong
Barbie manufacturer Mattel announced Monday that it had settled with a former company designer who allegedly sketched out idea...
How one small law school forced the American Bar Association to clarify its accreditation standards. ...
Diane Downs, the firmwide manager for attorney development at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, offers some tips on how t...
Refusing to disrupt long-standing tax policies in California and most other states, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld the s...
Our experts offer sample answers to the six practice questions and two performance tests from the February 2008 California Bar...
Passing the bar is difficult enough when you have nothing to do but study, but how do students who work full-time find time to...
Snapshots of five of California’s unaccredited law schools. ...
Because most new lawyers spend only a few years at their first law firms, it's never too early to start planning for the next ...
Overview of statistics for the Feb. 2007 bar exam. ...
Thanks to legislation that went into effect this year, California’s unaccredited law schools are being regulated by the State ...
If firms are indifferent to LL.M. degrees, why are master's of law programs expanding? ...
Los Angeles-based recruiter Valerie Fontaine weighs in on the pluses and minuses of practicing at small and mid-size firms. ...
In this issue of The New Lawyer, some of the state's top practitioners offer free advice to new lawyers. They describe how t...
California's Supreme Court has a long tradition of leading when it comes to the protection of civil rights and liberties. Some...
To: Joan Clay RE: Draft Brief in Opposition to Demurrer for One-Stop Corp.
1a) Is Lawco Bound by Its Contract With Computerworks?
Community Property/Quasi-Community Property
1. What Arguments Should Church Make in Support of Its Claim, and What Is The Likely Result? Discuss.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has gained two attorneys in its business and finance practice group in San Francisco.