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Firm Watch


Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Jeffrey D. Goldman, an entertainment litigator whose clients include Universal Music Group,...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Family law attorneys have to help emotionally crippled clients maintain real-world sensibi...


Firm Watch


They're Reunited and It Feels So Good

Feb. 20, 2008
By Rebecca U. Cho

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - A turbulent eight years after departing the now-defunct Lyon & Lyon, patent litigator...


Law Practice


Chicago-Based Bell Loyd Opens in San Diego

Feb. 20, 2008
By Pat Broderick

Industry Watch - By Pat Broderick - On Wednesday, a dozen attorneys and technical specialists from Chicago-based Bell, Boyd &a...


Judges and Judiciary


Budget Woes Put New Judge Positions on Hold

Feb. 20, 2008
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - The cavalry will be quite a bit slower in getting to California's trial courts, thanks to the state's budget w...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Pros vs. Joes

Feb. 20, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Focus Column - By Jay Folberg - Becoming a savvy and professional negotiator requires establishing rapport with other parties ...


U.S. Supreme Court


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a high-stakes energy case today that will determine whether California gets ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judging the Nuremberg Trials: Jurist Was There

Feb. 20, 2008
By Pat Broderick

Norbert Ehrenfreund, a retired San Diego County Superior Court judge, has written an eyewitness account of the Nuremberg trial...


Litigation


Airlines Settle Price-Fixing Class Action

Feb. 20, 2008
By Gabe Friedmann

In what the lead plaintiffs' lawyer is calling "only the tip of the iceberg," two British airlines will hand over $200 million...


Judicial Profile


Sometimes, Justice William W. Bedsworth has trouble being taken seriously. That's despite the fact that Bedsworth is widely co...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Lost in Translation

Feb. 19, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Forum Column - By Richard Brent Reed - Establishing a separate court system for Muslim family law disputes - a proposal being ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Feb. 19, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...


Law Practice


Disciplinary Actions

Feb. 19, 2008
By Jim Adamekn

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


Firm Watch


With Honors

Feb. 19, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Retirements, promotions? Check out our listing of lawyers and judges who have gained recognition for their work.


Judicial Profile


Rockin' the Bench

Feb. 19, 2008
By Anat Rubinn

Those who have worked for years with Los Angeles Supervising Judge Brian Gasdia are familiar with the sound of the bass emanat...


Criminal


Pro Bono Lawyers Clash With DA

Feb. 16, 2008
By Ryan Olivern

Bingham McCutchen attorneys Joshua Safran and Nadia Costa in Walnut Creek are working to acquit Deborah Peagler under a law al...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


LOS ANGELES - One night in early 2006, a worried mother rushed through the sliding glass doors of the Sherman Oaks Hospital em...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Toking the Line

Feb. 16, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Medical-marijuana users might be able to legally use the drug, but employers aren'...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Extracurricular Aid

Feb. 16, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Forum Column - By Janice Kamenir-Reznik - Lawyers’ involvement in helping Darfur reflects positively on the profession. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Ground Rules

Feb. 16, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Focus Column - By Jim Martin and Zareh Jaltorossian - A recent 9th Circuit case examined the procedure for challenging evidenc...


Judges and Judiciary


Attorney Drops Out of Santa Clara Judicial Race

Feb. 16, 2008
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - There's a little more breathing room in the race for Santa Clara County's sole open judicial seat. This week,...


Immigration


Lawyers Challenge Immigration Raid

Feb. 16, 2008
By Sandra Hernandezn

LOS ANGELES - Immigration and civil rights attorneys are mounting legal challenges to last week's raid of a Van Nuys company t...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Neutral, 82, Is Leader of Evolving ADR Trends

Feb. 16, 2008
By Alexa Hylandn

LOS ANGELES - Sitting in his Century City office, Gerald F. Phillips flips through a black binder filled with articles detaili...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Roberto Javier Frisancho - The widely held belief that the Second Amendment was adopted to provide an indivi...


Verdicts


SANTA ANA - Orange County has settled a lawsuit growing out of the first killing in a county jail in 20 years. Left unexplain...


Mergers & Acquisitions


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court just made it tougher for plaintiffs' attorneys to bring shareholder derivative la...


Immigration


9th Curcuit Senior Judge John T. Noonan Jr. has accused the immigration courts of trying to shield adverse decisions in asylum...


Government


House OKs Contempt Citations

Feb. 16, 2008
By Alexia Garamfalvin

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives took a step closer to a constitutional showdown with the White House Thursday over t...


Large Firms


Congress Probes Deportation of Disabled U.S. Citizen

Feb. 15, 2008
By Alexia Garamfalvin

Outrage over the deportation to Mexico last year of a developmentally disabled U.S. citizen from Los Angeles reached Washingto...


SAN FRANCISCO - Senior Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed III, who served on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since President Nixon...