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Entertainment & Sports


A group of mostly white retired professional baseball players who claim they are victims of reverse discrimination struck out ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


SAN FRANCISCO - The majority of California's top 50 law firms have signed on to the Bar Association of San Francisco's ambitio...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - In promotional spots on a Los Angeles public-radio station, the law firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & M...


SAN FRANCISCO - J. Tony Serra will soon be heading to federal prison for tax evasion, but in a last hurrah before starting his...


Corporate


EchoStar Ruling Clears Patent Law Ambiguity

May 11, 2006
By Kevin Livingstonn

What did a rival company's officials know from their outside lawyers, and when did they know it? Those are the questions Tivo ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A Lighthearted Movie About the Bar Exam?

May 10, 2006
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln

LOS ANGELES - Some filmmakers would like to document you studying for the Bar Exam. No pressure. And if you're one of the many...


Education


Focus Column - By Areva D. Martin - 'My son is gifted!" "My son is learning disabled." The peculiar thing about these two stat...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ordered former Gemstar-TV Guide International Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Henr...


State Bar & Bar Associations


HUD Attorney-Client Privilege Policies Probed

May 10, 2006
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - An American Bar Association task force charged with protecting attorney-client privilege is turning its attenti...


Corporate


Nancy Heinen, Apple Computer's general counsel and highest-ranking female executive, has left the Cupertino company after almo...


Judges and Judiciary


Publishing her first ruling as a California Supreme Court justice, Carol A. Corrigan on Monday affirmed a death sentence arisi...


Corporate


Column - By Garry Abrams - The trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling is beginning to wind down. Te...


Corporate


SAN JOSE - Employees in California enjoy broad freedom under the law to move between jobs, but that is not stopping companies ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Judiciary Bill Would Bolster Antitrust Suits

May 10, 2006
By Peter Blumberg

WASHINGTON - Driven into action by rising gas prices, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would toughen...


Firm Watch


Quicksilver Takes Charge at Manatt

May 10, 2006
By Drew Combsn

LOS ANGELES - William T. Quicksilver will take over from Paul H. Irving as chief executive and managing partner of Los Angeles...


Labor/Employment


Jurist Tosses Suit by Fired Executive

May 10, 2006
By Ryan Olivef

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge tentatively tossed out a wrongful-termination lawsuit Monday filed by the former public relation...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Alison L. Krumbein - Last month, the 5th District Court of Appea...


Government Contracts


Traveling Man Makes Eastern District His

May 9, 2006
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott did something unusual after he took office three years ago overseeing a district tha...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Last month, a remarkable thing happened at the Spring Conference of the American Bar Associa...


International


Focus Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson - In the United States, Section 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act provides certain grou...


Administrative/Regulatory


'Harper' Is Anything but Demeaning to Gays

May 9, 2006
By David Minkown

Letters to the Editor - In their article "'Harper' Protects Gay Sensitivities, Not Free Speech" (April 28 Daily Journal), Robe...


Law Practice


The general counsel for the Screen Actors Guild, David White, will step down after his contract ends next month. ...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Davis Wright Tremaine's San Francisco office unit acquired a veteran labor and employment practitioner to help...


LOS ANGELES - Continuing its steady rate of expansion, Greenberg Traurig recruited Eric Rowen away from Paul, Hastings, Janofs...


SAN FRANCISCO - Implementing its strategy to increase the number of attorneys in Northern California, Stoel Rives announced la...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Fred I. Bernstein, a prominent entertainment attorney and the former president of Columbia TriStar Motion Pictur...


Firm Watch


Heller Lawyers Cross Over to S.F.'s Beveridge

May 9, 2006
By William Arthur Haynes

SAN FRANCISCO - National environmental firm Beveridge & Diamond added two new partners and an associate to its San Franci...


Law Practice


RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County chapter of VIP-Mentors recently presented its Outstanding Attorney Volunteer Award to crimina...


Corporate


SAN FRANCISCO - The whistle-blower at the center of a class action alleging that AT&T Corp. helps spy on Americans has poo...


State Bar & Bar Associations


SAN FRANCISCO - The sudden departure of Martha Whetstone from her post as executive director of the Bar Association of San Fra...