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Litigation


Allan B. Diamond, trustee for the estate, seeks to settle unfinished business claims with Covington & Burling LLP, Kirklan...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Apple was the exception; Samsung, the rule

Oct. 24, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Samsung was merely on the losing side of a legal policy debate that transcended this single case against Apple. By Rodney R. S...


The agreement followed a testy duel over whether the volunteers need more supervision. ...


Perspective


China, a market too big to ignore

Oct. 24, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

China could be the legal industry's salve for the economic malaise it has suffered for the better part of a decade. By Peter Z...


Intellectual Property


John B. Quinn acknowledged Tuesday his law firm may have inadvertently violated a protective order in an ongoing patent infrin...


Litigation


Privacy and data security attorneys are seeing an increase in activity due to the a rapidly accelerating phenomenon involving ...


Labor/Employment


An anti-SLAPP motion can be an effective tool to end frivolous litigation, lower costs and reduce agony for the employer and c...


Perspective


Too much stuff

Oct. 23, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Whatever your area of practice, you have at least one thing in common with me: You know what it is to endure an office move. B...


Government


Plan to trim bar exam to two days put on hold

Oct. 23, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

The plan to move to a two-day bar exam in California is dead, at least for a while. Citing the press of other business, the St...


Discipline


San Diego lawyer agrees to be disbarred

Oct. 23, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

Ernest George Georggin allowed nonlawyers to operate an apparently fraudulent credit-repair business in his name, according to...


Entertainment & Sports


Reed Smith video game lawyer launches own practice

Oct. 23, 2013
By Caitlin Johnson

Prominent video game attorney Patrick Sweeney has decided to strike out on his own, becoming yet another gaming specialist to ...


Law Practice


Stoel Rives LLP announced Monday that Jon Wellinghoff, chair of the commission, will join the firm as a partner after completi...


Probate


The disposition of digital assets upon death

Oct. 23, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

It is amazing how many digital assets people have which they do not consider to be "assets." By Susan J. Cooley and Melissa A....


Corporate


Sullivan helps with AT&T's $4.85 billion tower sale

Oct. 23, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Transaction sees Crown Castle International Corp. buy 600 towers and purchase the rights to 9,100 others. ...


Law Practice


Law libraries - the greatest equalizer for access to justice - suffer when filings drop. By John W. Adkins and Yvonne E. Campo...


Immigration


While the state's new measures may appear to flout federal policy, they fit into a long tradition of U.S. law seeking to integ...


The demand for sophisticated attorneys who practice in the niche has jumped. Yet the supply, many lawyers say, is at an all-ti...


Corporate


Dealmakers

Oct. 22, 2013
By Dominic Fracassan

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.


Corporate Counsel


W. Davis Smith

Oct. 22, 2013
By Caitlin Johnson

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary for San Diego Gas & Electric Co. San Diego ...


Government


Solar installations have soared in California in recent years, but a new law raises questions about a rule that allows residen...


Tax


Acknowledging that changes to the law were necessary, the Legislature revisited the repeal in order to address some ambiguitie...


Litigation


At least one senior partner of the defunct Upland-based police law firm Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir APC has retained ...


Judges and Judiciary


Commission on Judicial Performance elects new leaders

Oct. 22, 2013
By Don Debenedictisn

Members of the judicial discipline panel elected Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Erica R. Yew as its new chair at the group's...


Government


Federal prosecutors lament the lost opportunity to publicize their work during the partial shutdown, but the court system got ...


Law Practice


In roughly three months, the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer LLP lost three notable practice leaders. And under a new stra...


Perspective


Studying jurors — online

Oct. 22, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

The information found by conducting a Google search for jurors isn't enough for some attorneys these days - they want to see s...


Perspective


The case of Los Angeles County's Measure B has reached the 9th Circuit, and may further determine the fate of the initiative p...


The California Fair Political Practices Commission is hoping to pass a bill early next year to stop a repeat of an incident wh...


Education


To many, the length of time it takes to receive bar exam results in California is a tragedy, slowing job hunts and frustrating...


Judicial Profile


Halim Dhanidina

Oct. 22, 2013
By Blake Edwardsn

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Long Beach) ...