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Corporate


9th Circuit Lets Women Sue Wal-Mart

Feb. 8, 2007
By Amelia Hansen

The largest certified class of workers in history can go forward with a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the world's larg...


Securities


KB Homes Ex-CEO Bolsters His Defense Team

Feb. 8, 2007
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - With the federal criminal investigation into misdated stock options at KB Home continuing, former CEO and Chairm...


Litigation


Case in Point

Feb. 8, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Thomas P. Krzeminski - Before you or your client call your friendly newspaper reporter to talk about a pendi...


Intellectual Property


Citing the large-scale failure of anti-piracy technology, Apple CEO Steve Jobs urged the major record labels Tuesday to licens...


Entertainment & Sports


Justice for a Thief - A Case for Maury Wills

Feb. 8, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Andrew J. Guilford - It just ain't fair. Maury Wills was the greatest star the Dodgers ever had, and he's no...


Judicial Profile


Ice Breaker

Feb. 8, 2007
By Pat Alston

Success playing hockey led Hector M. Guzman indirectly to his new role as Superior Court judge, where he is learning when to p...


Discipline


Aide's Pay Deal May Pose Problems for Newsom

Feb. 8, 2007
By Donna Dominon

Mayor Gavin Newsom, who issued an emotional public apology last week for having an affair with the wife of a former aide, may ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Opens Files on Accused Dead Priest

Feb. 8, 2007
By Sandra Hernandezn

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday that confidential files belonging to a dead priest accused of molesting minors...


Government


Law firms with a large presence in the nation's capital are set to cash in as the new Democratic-controlled Congress steps up ...


Judges and Judiciary


The U.S. Senate confirmed three nominees for California federal judgeships last week. ...


Discipline


A Sherman Oaks divorce lawyer will get a new trial on charges that she went to criminal lengths to stalk and intimidate a fost...


Criminal


A Year On, Pellicano Case Still Looms

Feb. 7, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

LOS ANGELES - The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping saga began in 2002 with a scene straight out of pulp fiction, with a warning d...


Government


Voyeurism Rules

Feb. 7, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Peter Scheer - Say it ain't so. Say that local governments aren't secretive. Not only is a First Amendment a...


Discipline


Fake Lawyer's Conviction Thrown Out

Feb. 7, 2007
By Amelia Hansen

John Milwitt didn't go to law school, but that did not stop him from advertising his "legal services" in the Yellow Pages. ...


Transactions


In the Wind: Green Energy Deals

Feb. 7, 2007
By Jason Songn

DEALS COLUMN - By Jason Song - When Delaware-based Babcock & Brown Renewable Holdings Inc. wanted to acquire an equity int...


Securities


Hot Topic

Feb. 7, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Michael G. Lufkin - Before global warming submerges the world's major cities, the SEC should start regulatin...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Though trial may be theater, few attorneys give thought to a compelling set design. But when a judge nixed Depu...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - First, District Attorney Kamala Harris pledged to get tougher on people who take swings at police officers. Th...


Education


Bar Review Provider Will Settle Cases

Feb. 7, 2007
By Rebecca Beyer

LOS ANGELES - The nation's leading bar review provider has agreed to pay $36 million to settle a pair of antitrust class actio...


Judicial Profile


PASADENA - A turn of turtles inhabits Kim Wardlaw's chambers. Sparkling and vibrant, the small figurines appear on the judge...


Judicial Profile


Fast Study

Feb. 7, 2007
By Dennis Pfaffn

SAN JOSE - Most everyone in the Santa Clara County courtroom of Judge Mark H. Pierce on a recent day knew what was about to ha...


Judicial Profile


California Dreamer

Feb. 6, 2007
By Max Follmer

Coins in a fountain became a wish fulfilled for Santa Barbara County Superior Court Presiding Judge J. William McLafferty.


Civil Rights


New ACLU Chief - And DA's Sister

Feb. 6, 2007
By John Roemer

Maya Lakshmi Harris, new executive director of the ACLU of Northern California, admits that her job of overseeing multiple civ...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda District Attorney Tom Orloff's top deputy, a woman, was quick to come to his defense after a veteran f...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - After litigating intellectual property matters for 28 years at a firm that has grown exponentially in head cou...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Map Act Mayhem

Feb. 6, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Cecily T. Talbert and Joshua Safran - Just when a Santa Barbara County developer thought it was able to go a...


Firm Watch


Making a Fresh Start at Shartsis

Feb. 6, 2007
By Haynes

SAN FRANCISCO - William B. Sechrest prefers to think of economics as the efficient allocation of abundant resources - as oppos...


Firm Watch


Industry Watch

Feb. 6, 2007
By Amanda Becker

On the Move ...


Firm Watch


Associates' Salaries Rise at More Law Firms

Feb. 6, 2007
By Emma Dewaldn

LOS ANGELES - More Southern California-based firms have raised associate salaries. ...


Firm Watch


Sheppard Mullin Adds Environmental Partner

Feb. 6, 2007
By Emma Dewaldn

LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton picked up an environmental partner from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius this...