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The Inner City Law Center, the sole provider of legal services in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, awarded its Humanitarian Awa...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Mid-value cases get short shrift in mediation

Jun. 29, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

When it comes to mediation, mid-value personal injury cases between are bearing the brunt of a beleaguered judicial system. By...


Hundreds of bench officers and attorneys came together June 25 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to rec...


Community News


LA prosecutors convene at Gibson Dunn

Jun. 29, 2013
By Ben Adlin

Three of Los Angeles' top public attorneys representing federal, county and city governments convened June 13 at the Los Angel...


Firm Profile


Lobbying and Lawyering

Jun. 29, 2013
By Paul Jones

Kahn, Soares & Conway LLP, which has offices in Sacramento and Hanford, has carved an unusual niche assisting with new leg...


A panel for the Commission on Judicial Performance on Wednesday weighed whether they should publicly discipline Contra Costa C...


Perspective


Biglaw's toolkit

Jun. 29, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

Part 2. Here are the Biglaw tools that you can expect to be applied with increasing frequency - and force - to reallocate mone...


Litigation


Tax-deductible punitive damages may soon be history

Jun. 29, 2013
By Chase Scheinbaum

Corporations forced to pay punitive damages are allowed to discount 100 percent of the money from their taxes. But that loopho...


Intellectual Property


Apple Inc. has lost a chance to add a smartphone made by bitter rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to a lawsuit alleging the S...


The firm added a new partner to its corporate and securities technology practice in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, official...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Rebecca J. Westerfield

Jun. 29, 2013
By John Roemer

Rebecca J. Westerfield has mediated and arbitrated more than 2,500 cases since she joined JAMS in 1992. Yet her zest for the j...


Community News


Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP hosted a campaign celebration and awards reception marking the completion of a month...


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


A ploy by Littler Mendelson PC lawyers to squelch separate wage and hour class actions by arguing their cases directly to the ...


Environmental


Gov. Jerry Brown has not finalized his controversial plan to build $24 billion water delivery tunnels under the Sacramento San...


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


Taking many by surprise, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday afternoon abruptly gave the go-ahead for same-sex m...


California Supreme Court


Law enforcement officers can seize a mailed package reeking of marijuana without obtaining a warrant, but a judge must sign of...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Jun. 28, 2013
By Dominic Fracassan

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


Corporate Counsel


Bill Burding

Jun. 28, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Orange Coast Title Co. Santa Ana ...


Despite the enormous veteran population, few lawyers have a profitable practice built around pursuing their disability claims....


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Creative attorneys now use ADR to resolve even interim disputes and, in doing so, save their clients time, money and the angui...


Family


Marriage equality does not mean divorce equality

Jun. 28, 2013
By Ben Armisteadn

The logical increase in marriage numbers following the high court's ruling Wednesday likely will be followed by an increase in...


Judges and Judiciary


A proposed change to judicial branch rules represents a small but noteworthy victory for the state's trial courts in the balan...


U.S. Supreme Court


Same-sex marriage rulings - community reacts

Jun. 28, 2013
By Andrew Mc Intyre

The U.S. Supreme Court's decisions Wednesday to dismiss the appeal to Proposition 8 and strike down the Defense of Marriage Ac...


Government Contracts


A controversial bill to shut off state funds to charter cities that don't require contractors to pay wages close to union wage...


Litigation


The free daily tabloid San Francisco Examiner has accused the San Francisco Chronicle of undervaluing its advertising prices i...


Law Practice


Cozen O'Connor is adding commercial litigator Matthew S. Steinberg from Greenberg Traurig LLP, according to two sources with k...


A federal judge granted Venable LLP's motion to dismiss a case Monday against the firm and one of its former partners involvin...


Law Practice


Goodwin Procter to shutter its San Diego office

Jun. 28, 2013
By Alexandra Schwappach

Six years after opening its San Diego office to capitalize on the area's transactional work, Goodwin Procter LLP plans to clos...


Judges and Judiciary


Six state and federal judges presented a drama Tuesday night in downtown Los Angeles titled "Chief Justice David S. Terry and ...


California Supreme Court


A two-year old state Supreme Court decision loomed large in Wednesday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court declining to decide t...