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The New Lawyer Supplement


Second-year law student is also a sports agent

May 21, 2014
By Alexandra Schwappach

Not many attorneys can say their clients include college football players who recently signed with teams like the Minnesota Vi...


The New Lawyer Supplement


More than a century after the State Bar denied his admission, students at UC Davis School of Law are petitioning the bar to ad...


The New Lawyer Supplement


Taking the bar without attending law school may gain popularity in a time of galloping law school tuition and graduate debt. ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


'Plaintiff's counsel has viewed your profile'

May 21, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

If you were sitting in your car in front of the juror's house and he or she looked out the window and saw you sitting there, w...


Law Practice


Tom Ara and Robert Sherman join the firm from Reed Smith. ...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


In a family's suit against Los Angeles police over the shooting of an autistic Muslim man, a federal judge should not have dis...


Plaintiffs' attorneys are coming under fire after terms of a deal struck in a recent case involving improper grave care were q...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a historic agreement to send vast amounts of Colorado River water from the Imperial V...


Intellectual Property


Patent litigation experts say they think that the settlement struck by Apple Inc. and Google Inc. last week is a byproduct of ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP took leading roles in proctoring AT&T Inc.'s p...


Government


Backers of a trial lawyer initiative to raise California medical malpractice payouts face a big challenge: how to raise enough...


Judicial Profile


Terri A. Mockler

May 21, 2014
By Kevin Lee

Tasked with scheduling trial dates for felony cases, Terri Mockler appreciates succinct arguments.


The New Lawyer Supplement


The New Lawyer

May 20, 2014
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP


The New Lawyer Q&A


Performance Test B

May 20, 2014
By Don Debenedictisn

Performance Test B


The New Lawyer Q&A


Performance Test A

May 20, 2014
By Don Debenedictisn

Performance Test A


The New Lawyer Supplement


By the Numbers

May 20, 2014
By STEPHEN LARSON

By the Numbers


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

May 20, 2014
By Dominic Fracassan

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Judicial Profile


Gregorio Roman Jr.

May 20, 2014
By Katie Lucia

Judge Gregorio Roman Jr. grew up picking grapes as a child before joining the LA County court.


Corporate Counsel


Thomas F. Larkins

May 20, 2014
By Caitlin Johnson

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Applied Materials Inc. Santa Clara ...


Federal officials who operate a reservoir on a Klamath River tributary rushed to release extra water to avoid a salmon die off...


Perspective


Religious expression has, historically, enhanced the administration of our government. Re: "'Outsiders to their own government...


Intellectual Property


The perils of film distribution

May 20, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Two frequently litigated copyright doctrines, when combined, can lead to arguably unjust judgments entered against licensees w...


Tax, International Law


The number of Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship or terminating permanent residency (a green card) is on a record pace this...


Environmental


What can law do about climate disruption?

May 20, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

The take home message from the Third National Climate Assessment is pretty straightforward: Human-caused climate disruption is...


Mergers & Acquisitions


San Francisco-based private equity firm Golden Gate Capital acquired the Red Lobster restaurant chain for $2.1 billion in a de...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


'No-poach' settlement gets more flack

May 20, 2014
By Laura Hautalan

Two more class members wrote to Judge Lucy H. Koh to comment on a $324 million settlement with four of Silicon Valley's larges...


Corporate


California's giant retirement system has hired DLA Piper partner Matthew G. Jacobs as its new general counsel. ...


Perspective


Forecast for rainy-day fund: cloudy

May 20, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

The speed with which Gov. Brown and legislative leaders announced the recent agreement on a new rainy-day fund measure caught ...


Judges and Judiciary


Courts look set to have no more than 1 percent of their budgets in reserve by July, with many using savings for project purcha...


Maxwell Blecher reportedly fired off a letter to the league on Donald Sterling's behalf last week, a step suggesting the embat...