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Law Practice


Trial attorney Raymond P. Boucher announced Thursday that he left the Los Angeles-based firm of Khorrami Boucher LLP. ...


Just a month after declaring public employees' pensions can be trimmed in bankruptcy cases, a federal judge Thursday spared em...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


David A. Garcia

Nov. 1, 2014
By Hadley Robinson

Lawyers say retired San Francisco County Superior Court Judge David Garcia is now less intimidating as a mediator than he was ...


Solo and Small Firms


It's not often that a case fought by a sole practitioner goes all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Los Angeles attorn...


Litigation


Charles Schwab has accused a Los Angeles-based law firm of libel for allegedly linking his investment company to a late Indone...


Firm Profile


The San Francisco-based firm maintains a focus on reading and understanding the documents in a case or ensuring every brief i...


Litigation


Kimberly-Clark Corp. falsely advertises that its high performance medical gowns protects users from the Ebola virus and other ...


Law Practice


Corporate counsel see a significant need for improvement in e-discovery management, according to an inaugural survey by BDO Co...


Criminal


Another former UCB executive faces charges

Nov. 1, 2014
By Fiona Smith

The Northern District U.S. attorney's office widened its case against executives of the defunct United Commercial Bank Thursda...


Community News


Attorney wins fortitude award at San Bernardino bar installation ...


Law Practice


Sunnyvale-based Infinera Corp. has appointed an experienced semiconductor company lawyer as its new senior vice president, gen...


California Supreme Court


Before he writes a single judicial opinion, Stanford Law School Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar is up for confirmation to...


Law Practice


Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on Wednesday named San Francisco-based partner Jeffrey P. Gray as its new firmwide managing partner....


Perspective


Litigation funding: a needless legal thicket

Nov. 1, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

Time is sometimes said to be money, but the rules governing litigation funding deny the point. By Ragesh Tangri and Dave McGow...


San Francisco-based Dignity Health, the fifth-largest hospital system in the nation, has agreed to pay $37 million to the fede...


Corporate


A Santa Ana judge must distill arguments among Allergan, Valeant and Pershing Square Capital over whether the actions taken by...


It comes as a practical follow-up to a landmark permanent injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee last year that re...


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Oct. 31, 2014
By Seena Nikravan

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


Law Practice


Drones provide lift for aviation practices

Oct. 31, 2014
By Joshua Seboldn

Firms with strong aviation law and Federal Aviation Administration regulation practice groups have been pivoting to highlight ...


Corporate Counsel


David Thompson

Oct. 31, 2014
By Alison Frost

General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President of Grand Rounds San Francisco ...


Under California law, a "foreign corporation" is prohibited from "transacting intrastate business" in California until it has ...


Pro Bono


If the explosive expansion of pro bono legal help by law firms was the story of the 1990s and 2000s, then pro bono participati...


Perspective


Changed landscape for software patents

Oct. 31, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively put an end to the era of business method patents that followed a 1998 U....


Elder Law


Many practitioners on both sides of the bar appear to either be ignorant of the financial elder abuse statute or think they ca...


Perspective


In the developed world, many peoples' wages have declined or remained stagnant this century in the face of low yet persistent ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


JAMS opens private courtroom in LA office

Oct. 31, 2014
By Kibkabe Arayan

The nation's largest ADR provider will allow clients to use the facility for arbitration, mock trials and other legal proceedi...


A senior prosecutor in Attorney General Kamala D. Harris' office has been promoted to chief of the criminal division, the offi...


Education


Financially struggling Thomas Jefferson School of Law will sell its $100 million-plus building to creditors and lease it back ...


Law Practice


Though law firms continue to lose market share to growing corporate legal departments, spending on outside counsel is up. ...


Litigation


A Los Angeles judge dismissed Monday the lawsuit brought by former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega who claimed his appearan...