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Corporate


Action Likely on Brocade Backdating Suit

Oct. 13, 2007
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - After months of inaction in the giant backdating shareholder class action against Broadcom, the 9th U.S. Circui...


Firm Watch


Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced plans Thursday to merge with Hatch & Parent, a prominent water-righ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Reimbursement Roulette

Oct. 13, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Employment Column - By Alisa M. Chevalier and Mani Sheik - A forthcoming decision from the California Supreme Court will decid...


Litigation


Panel Extends Document Privilege

Oct. 13, 2007
By Laura Ernden

Even documents that don't bear an attorney's name can be protected by attorney-client privilege, a state appellate court ruled...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Global Discovery

Oct. 13, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Christopher Van Gundy and Sharlyn Walling Dreyfus - New federal rules pertaining to electronic discovery are...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Silencing Liability

Oct. 13, 2007
By Troy Senikn

ADR Column - By Max Factor III - California's standards for what kinds of information can and cannot be kept confidential afte...


Litigation


Two years after launching a program to mediate citizens' complaints of officer misconduct, Pasadena Police Chief Bernard K. M...


Litigation


Former Client Files Suit Against Tribal Lawyer

Oct. 13, 2007
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - Howard Dickstein, a prominent California tribal lawyer, found few friends this week in the legal community willin...


Litigation


Patent Cases Are the Family Business

Oct. 13, 2007
By Joe Mullinn

The son of a judge in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas is counsel on the plaintiff’s side in 54 of the Eastern...


Litigation


Two Tribes Sue to Keep Compacts Off the Ballot

Oct. 13, 2007
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - A political campaign to overturn four lucrative Indian gaming compacts will first have to survive a court challen...


Large Firms


Running a Law Practice: 'It's Not Just Cases'

Oct. 12, 2007
By Maya Meinert

Los Angeles litigator Louis R. 'Skip' Miller makes a fresh start by launching a new law firm, and he adds his sons as associat...


Government


AG Opinion Puts Parking in Gray Zone

Oct. 12, 2007
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - In recent weeks, the city of Long Beach has proposed hiring an outside firm to enforce parking restrictions on pu...


Litigation


Web Exclusive - The heated battle over four Indian gaming compacts has moved to court. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Waste Not, Water Not

Oct. 12, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Steven Hoch and Brad Herrema - California's new policy on recycling water has laudable intensions, but its v...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Accelerating Debt Collection

Oct. 12, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Ronald P. Slates - Commercial debts can be collected quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively with a thorou...


Corporate


Closing Arguments in Sterility Case

Oct. 12, 2007
By Martin Bergn

An attorney for 12 Nicaraguan men who worked chopping leaves on banana plantations in their country said his clients were robb...


Judges and Judiciary


L.A. Attorney Drafted Tax Legislation

Oct. 12, 2007
By Maya Meinert

Vincent C. Page, a longtime Los Angeles tax attorney who represented some of the Southland's prominent businesses and municipa...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Golden State's courts have come to a surprising conclusion: You need not be a child's ...


Law Practice


Attorneys at the San Diego-based Brown Law Group have one less thing to worry about than most other law firms - no one has to ...


Litigation


Cyclist Appeals Doping Decision

Oct. 12, 2007
By Susan Mcraen

LOS ANGELES - U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis has filed an appeal of the decision that in September cost him the 2006 Tour de France...


U.S. Supreme Court


Justices Deadlock 4-4 on School Case

Oct. 12, 2007
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is starting its new term the way it finished the last one: deeply divided. ...


U.S. Supreme Court


Web Exclusive - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to review a case challenging the San Francisco 49ers' policy ...


Law Practice


SAN JOSE - Google Inc. and other search engines can rest easy about Utah's new law that legal observers say would have effecti...


A bruising political battle is developing in Washington over whether Congress should grant legal immunity to the telecommunica...


U.S. Supreme Court


Bush, Texas at Odds in Death-Penalty Case

Oct. 12, 2007
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In a delicate case at the intersection of international law, judicial power and presidential authority, the U.S. ...


Judicial Profile


Promoting Alternatives

Oct. 12, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

As a judge, Jamoa A. Moberly has headed programs that encourage mediation and help drug defendants stay sober. ...


Law Practice


Water Everywhere but Not a Lot That's Recycled

Oct. 11, 2007
By David Houstonn

Municipal water districts and sellers would like more recycled water used in California, where a growing population and global...


Immigration


Report Finds 56 Immigrants Were Drugged

Oct. 11, 2007
By Sandra Hernandezn

Federal immigration officials forcibly drugged 56 immigrants during deportations carried out over the past year, according to ...


Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - Renowned disability law expert Eve Hill will leave her post as executive director of the Los Angeles-based Disab...


U.S. Supreme Court


Ruling Stands on Redacted Witnesses

Oct. 11, 2007
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - Handing a victory to federal prosecutors in a closely watched San Francisco gang case, the U.S. Supreme Court on ...