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Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Experts are divided over the future repercussions for both bar and bench of Wednesday's decision from the U.S. Court of Appeal...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A new booklet describes red flags that lawyers can watch for to keep from getting tangled in a client's money laundering schem...


State Bar & Bar Associations


After more than two years of work, the State Bar on Thursday moved a step closer to requiring that California law students gai...


LA based lawyer becomes the first practicing attorney to win property rights award ...


A Long Beach man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors and banks ou...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


A Sacramento County lawyer dinged by a federal judge for using stolen emails in cases involving two clients got no help from t...


Juvenile


Keeping kids out of court, in school

Nov. 8, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

What should happen to a teenage girl who keeps getting into fights at school? To a 12-year-old caught selling drugs? To a boy ...


Where's the money? Despite state officials' early efforts to speed $3 million in new grant funds to nonprofits aiding unaccomp...


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Nov. 7, 2014
By Seena Nikravan

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


Administrative/Regulatory


Privacy statements and written response protocols have become one of the yardsticks by which the FTC measures "deceptive" onli...


Civil Rights


The seeds of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Nov. 7, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

As we celebrate this year the landmark 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, few realize that the seeds of that hi...


Law Practice


Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP on Wednesday announced that Senator-Elect Robert M. Hertzberg of the San Fern...


Zoning, Planning and Use


In an effort to preserve the coastal city's local character, voters in Malibu approved a controversial land use ordinance Tues...


A Santa Clara County prosecutor suspended for withholding potentially exculpatory evidence in an eight-defendant murder case s...


Corporate Counsel


Andrew Thau

Nov. 7, 2014
By Jason Pafundin

Chief operating officer and general counsel of United Talent Agency Beverly Hills ...


Judges and Judiciary


Solano County Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Healy was publicly admonished Wednesday for berating litigants who appeared bef...


Judges and Judiciary


Voters threw two sitting Superior Court judges off the bench, and they chose a senior prosecutor over a law professor in what ...


Corporate


Recent reports by Wilson Sonsini and Cooley covering the venture financing market during the third quarter showed exuberance a...


Law Practice


Star prosecutor joins WilmerHale in LA

Nov. 7, 2014
By Alexandra Schwappach

Former San Diego federal prosecutor Timothy C. Perry joined the firm's Los Angeles office as counsel in the securities and li...


Public Interest


The executive director of the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, Shari Steele, is leaving the nonprofit after...


In runoff district attorney elections, David Linn ousted incumbent Michael Keitz in Madera County, while Amander Hopper defeat...


Government


The U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California was once firmly established among the top prosecutors' offic...


Intellectual Property


Edward R. Reines, a Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP partner, was publicly reprimanded Wednesday by a federal appellate court fo...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Nov. 6, 2014
By Jason Pafundin

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.


Entertainment Law


Jennifer Lloyd Kelly

Nov. 6, 2014
By Alison Frost

Fenwick & West LLP San Francisco Litigation ...


Entertainment Law


Henry D. Gradstein

Nov. 6, 2014
By Matthew Blaken

Gradstein & Marzano PC Los Angeles Music ...


Entertainment Law


Harvey W. Geller

Nov. 6, 2014
By Matthew Blaken

Gradstein & Marzano PC Los Angeles Music ...


California Courts of Appeal


A trial court shouldn't refer to a nonexistent record in its decision, a state court of appeal ruled Tuesday, dinging a Los An...


Entertainment Law


Entertainment Law

Nov. 6, 2014
By Riley Guerin


Entertainment & Sports


Movie makers butt heads with investors

Nov. 6, 2014
By Matthew Blaken

Basic risk mitigation techniques and smart Wall Street investors have proven no cure for the contractual disputes that have lo...