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Civility aside, lawyers have professional concerns about their use and abuse of email. Here are a few.

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While fully autonomous “level 5” vehicles are still some time out, scores of automakers are already introducing level 2 (parti...

For years, complex civil matters in Riverside County were somewhat randomly distributed to departments throughout the county.

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Both the passing score and the overall validity of the exam need attention.

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The extension of the cap-and-trade program is a major milestone for the state’s greenhouse gas reduction program. However, it ...

While U.S. VC activity appears to be in the middle of a self-correction period, the German venture market almost doubled in th...

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Lithium — the natural resource mined from the Earth’s crust — is perhaps the best-known commodity that people know the least a...

It is believed that this decision is the first which extends the concept of computer “use” or “violation” to the practice of “...

While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that the Senate would vote on health care legislation on Tuesday, it wa...

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Targets are increasingly questioning how quickly a deal can get done and what private equity sponsors can do in terms of opera...

Learn about the source of a court’s authority to appoint a referee, the scope of referee appointment orders, and referees’ pow...

Before recently issued Treasury regulations, it was unclear whether issuing equity to an employee of a disregarded entity and ...