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Mergers & Acquisitions, Law Practice, Law Office Management, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Is your firm considering a merger?

Feb. 19, 2016
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens

Whether a merger is appropriate for a firm depends on many factors.


Law Practice

Gender equality and the Selective Service

Feb. 18, 2016
By Julie L. Kessler

In an interesting twist reflecting a sign of the times, but Army and Marine Corps top brass testified earlier this month befor...


U.S. Supreme Court

High court to hear enhanced patent damages arguments

Feb. 18, 2016
By Blaine H. Evanson

The court's decision could have a significant impact on the way patent claims are litigated. By Blaine Evanson and Taylor W. K...


U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary

The coming fight to replace Scalia

Feb. 18, 2016
By Eric B. Kingsley

News of Scalia's death had barely sunk in before Sentate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell began politicizing it. ...


Perspective

A few of Scalia's favorite things

Feb. 18, 2016
By Dana M. Cole

I come to praise Justice Antonin Scalia, not to bury him. By Dana M. Cole ...


Perspective

One clerk's view of a life well-lived

Feb. 18, 2016
By Julian W. Poon

This past weekend, we lost a great justice, American and individual. Scalia applied his approach to the law in a principled ri...


U.S. Supreme Court

An empty seat on the court

Feb. 18, 2016
By Erwin Chemerinsky

Unsurprisingly, the intense political fight over Justice Antonin Scalia's successor began within hours of his death. ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Scalia's passing may change the ADR landscape

Feb. 18, 2016
By Steven H. Kruis

The Supreme Court justice's recent and unexpected death may change the alternative dispute resolution landscape, at least as t...


U.S. Supreme Court

Class actions at the high court

Feb. 18, 2016
By E. Crystal Lopez

A Supreme Court decision last month and several cases still on the court's docket could have a big impact on class action liti...


Our nation should not suffer a deadlocked, eight-member Supreme Court unable to resolve major cases for a year or more. Obama ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Trial counsel are well aware of the five-year statute within which to bring a case to trial after the complaint is filed. By S...


Perspective

EEOC continues to fight wage inequality

Feb. 17, 2016
By Emily Burkhardt Vicente

Businesses are bracing for a new rule from the Obama Administration that would require companies to report employee pay data b...


California Supreme Court

A stunning about-face from the state Supreme Court

Feb. 17, 2016
By Michael B. Salerno

On Jan. 4, the California Supreme Court decided its most significant separation of power case in decades. By Michael B. Salern...


Perspective

A guide to successful employment mediation

Feb. 13, 2016
By Judith Ryan

Experienced counsel, understanding the risks of litigation and benefits of resolution, come to the mediation fully prepared wi...


Perspective

Attorney solicitations tell the client what to do, but does the attorney know what to do? By Howard Smith ...


California Supreme Court

State high court takes on anti-SLAPP

Feb. 13, 2016
By Gary A. Watt

The California Supreme Court is currently reviewing several cases involving the state's anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Proc...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

In recent months, our state Supreme Court has resolved controversial cases that bear directly on the conduct of lawyers. By Jo...


Perspective

Jail in LA County: kind of like love

Feb. 13, 2016
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.

Like love, being the Los Angeles County jail means "never having to say you are sorry." By Robert L. Bastian Jr. ...


Labor/Employment

Productions facing wave of wage and hour actions

Feb. 12, 2016
By Kirstin E. Muller

Nothing is worse than a bad sequel. Unfortunately for the entertainment industry, productions in New York City have become the...


Perspective

State high court expounds on short sales

Feb. 12, 2016
By Francis N. Scollan

As the number of residential "short sales" skyrocketed as an alternative to foreclosure, California enacted legislation in 201...


Perspective

Justices to again consider IP fees

Feb. 12, 2016
By Edward R. Reines

Only two years after doing so in the context of patent cases, Supreme Court will address the correct standard for awarding att...


Perspective

On Jan. 28, the California Public Utilities Commission voted in favor of a net metering successor tariff for customers of Cali...


Perspective

LWOP ruling particularly important in California

Feb. 11, 2016
By Frankie Guzman

Today in California, there are more than 300 prisoners serving life without parole sentences as well as more than 6,000 with l...


U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law

What juvenile LWOP ban really means

Feb. 11, 2016
By Cyn Yamashiro

Montgomery should be interpreted for what it is - an acknowledgment that juveniles are different from adults and that those di...


Environmental

Although it would be easy to place all of the blame on SoCal Gas, the story and context are a bit more nuanced. By Sarah Duffy...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law

Eyebrows raise with 'take care' question

Feb. 11, 2016
By Charles S. Doskow

The Supreme Court threw in a zinger in a new case, asking whether President Obama's actions on immigration violate the take ca...


Criminal

Courts start off new year by affirming death sentences

Feb. 10, 2016
By Lawrence Waddington

For the families, friends and relatives of the 13 innocent people murdered in the Wichita Massacre, a sentence of life in pris...


Bankruptcy

Court says Bankruptcy Code trumps NLRA

Feb. 10, 2016
By David S. Kupetz

In the recent Trump Entertainment Resorts case, the 3rd Circuit addressed two potentially conflicting provisions of fed...


Perspective

California's affordable housing reality

Feb. 10, 2016
By Christopher Thornberg

California's lack of "affordable" housing has been the focus of a flurry of policy proposals aimed at increasing the stock of ...


Perspective

In the 1990s, California voters were duped into dismantling the rights of innocent people injured by the fault of another. By ...