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Labor/Employment


It was one prediction Ted Borromeo wishes he had wrong. With stockbrokers, pharmaceutical salespeople and other white-collar w...


Law Practice


Ruling Allows Limited Use of Police Files

Nov. 27, 2007
By Laura Ernden

The California Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to defense attorneys sharing limited information gleaned from police of...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Be Fair to Prosecutors

Nov. 27, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By John Poyner - While recent legislation intended to prevent wrongful convictions in California was well-inten...


Corporate


Second Backdating Trial Has Its Own Twists

Nov. 27, 2007
By David Houstonn

The second criminal backdating case against a former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. executive went before a jury Monday, ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By William L. Troutman - Failure to consider the oil company's efforts to compensate those hurt by the groundin...


Criminal


DNA Could Free Convicted Man

Nov. 27, 2007
By Zack Vaneyckn

With scant physical evidence and no witnesses, it took San Bernardino prosecutors three trials to get William Richards convict...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Vietnam Ventures

Nov. 27, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Oliver Massmann - Though it's only been a few decades since the end of the nation's devastating war, Vietnam...


Law Practice


High Court Won't Review San Diego Home Searches

Nov. 27, 2007
By David Houstonn

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a legal challenge to San Diego County's welfare policy that requires applicants to c...


Law Practice


An Orange County legal assistant who sued her law firm for sexual harassment settled last year for a relatively small sum: $35...


Firm Watch


Industry Watch

Nov. 26, 2007
By Rebecca U. Cho

On the Move


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Let Judges Be Judges

Nov. 26, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Bruce J. Einhorn - The long-awaited victory of the "L.A. Eight" doesn't represent a victory for just immigra...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Prosecutorial Discretion

Nov. 26, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Dolores A. Carr - Readers will learn about the legal and ethical restraints on the people’s representative. ...


Firm Watch


Earthjustice Replaces Its Executive Director

Nov. 26, 2007
By Devan Mcclainen

Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Earthjustice, a nonprofit law firm that represents environmental groups in cases all ove...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Self-Assessment Test

Nov. 26, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Take this test on the latitude available to prosecutors, for MCLE credit, after you read Dolores A. Carr's Focus column, below...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Although respect for active-duty American soldiers is noble, it means little when the publ...


Firm Watch


Establishing Rule of Law in Afghanistan

Nov. 26, 2007
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - The deep pockets of law firms are needed to aid the federal government in developing the ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


Justice Anthony M. Kennedy may have reached new heights of influence as the U.S. Supreme Court's most powerful justice, but if...


Corporate


Bill Would Limit Sharing Customer Data

Nov. 26, 2007
By Hurley

WASHINGTON - Yahoo Inc. may have settled litigation alleging that the Internet company provided the Chinese government with pr...


Law Practice


New Bar Group Leader Will Stress Civility

Nov. 26, 2007
By Martin Bergn

Heather L. Rosing plans to push professionalism and civility when she takes the helm of the San Diego County Bar Association o...


Technology & Science


Publishing Treatises on Web

Nov. 23, 2007
By Martin Bergn

The August 2006 publication of "The Path of Constitutional Law," by Charles Kelso and his son, appears to be the first compreh...


Law Practice


In a case closely watched by California cities, the American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court to ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


In the Line of Fire

Nov. 23, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Melody Mosley and Craig Simon - Victims of the recent California wildfires can take heart in a number of sta...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Wage-and-Hour Onslaught

Nov. 23, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Employment Column - By Mandana Massoumi and Sarah Maier - The recent explosion in employment law suits makes this survey of re...


Verdicts


Defect-Case Mediator Looks for 'Global Picture'

Nov. 23, 2007
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Mediator Ross R. Hart has the difficult task of keeping his head when dealing with 40 parties - or more - in construction-defe...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Julie Stewart and Molly Gill - The U.S. Sentencing Commission's decision to decrease disparities between cra...


State Bar & Bar Associations


New President Helps Fill Void for Asian-American Lawyers

Nov. 23, 2007
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Helen B. Kim, a securities and commercial litigation partner in Baker Hostetler's Los Angeles office, has become the new presi...


Law Practice


Firms Anticipate Upswing in Bankruptcy Cases

Nov. 23, 2007
By Jason Songn

After a long lull in Chapter 11 work amid the mergers and acquisitions boom of the last several years, law firms are starting ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Safety 'Net

Nov. 23, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Leslie Harris and Jim Dempsey - A recent Rio de Janeiro conference on governmental control of the Internet r...


Labor/Employment


Fundraiser Acknowledges Underpayments

Nov. 23, 2007
By Dennis Pfaffn

A company that raises money for the Democratic National Committee and other liberal political groups has acknowledged that it ...


Labor/Employment


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide the legality of a California law that forbids privat...