The New Lawyer Supplement
Bar Exam insiders debunk myths about test
By Don Debenedictisn
Those who write and grade California Bar Exam recognize it is a "high-stakes, professional licensing exam," so they try to mak...
Labor/Employment
NLRB's latest ruling not the end of the class-action-waiver war
By Ben Armisteadn
While a win for employees, 24 Hour Fitness does not mean employers should not still consider class action waivers in th...
A recent decision is likely to bolster the prospects of increased third-party litigation funding. By Kenneth A. Linzer and Eli...
Intellectual Property
Former Google lawyer named to head patent office satellite
By Rachel Swan
Michelle Lee, the former head of patent strategy at Google Inc. who stepped down earlier this year, will head the new satellit...
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund held its annual awards gala on Nov. 8 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel ...
Solo and Small Firms
Small firm enjoys handling 'byzantine' family law structure
By Henry Meier
Sixteen-lawyer Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt & Klein LLP started as a civil trial firm and has evolved to devote 80 percent of ...
Government
120 lawyers could face discipline for flouting education requirements
By Hannah Mitchelln
Reporting on a detailed audit of lawyers' compliance with continuing education rules, a bar staffer told a committee of the ba...
Corporate
Reed Smith helps American Water Works Co. to $1 billion credit facility
By David Ruizn
Reed Smith LLP represented publicly traded utilities company American Water Works Co. Inc. in its agreement for a $1 billion r...
Consumer Attorneys of California held its 51st Annual Convention on Nov. 8-11 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The weeken...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Center for Civic Mediation hosted the 7th Annual Robert I. Weil Lecture, "The N...
Constitutional Law
6th Circuit strikes down Michigan affirmative action ban
By Connie Lopez
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 2006 Michigan ballot initiative, Proposal 2, which bans affirmative action in u...
A 2010 California law targeting paparazzi who drive recklessly failed in its first test in court Wednesday. ...
Government
Alameda County jail accused of discriminating against disabled inmates
By Saul Sugarman
Dublin-based Santa Rita Jail is the target of a lawsuit filed Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court alleging the jail disc...
California Courts of Appeal
Lawyer argues for $58 million verdict against Pfizer to be reinstated
By Emily Green
A nonprofit biomedical research sought to have a $58 million verdict against Pfizer Inc. reinstated Thursday in oral arguments...
A federal judge considered a revised proposed class action settlement to resolve a privacy lawsuit against Facebook Inc. on Th...
A peacemaker at heart, Craig S. Meredith disliked his job as a business litigator so much he left the law to become a teacher....
Environmental
9th Circuit rebuffs environmentalists in genetically modified beets case
By Fiona Smith
A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that environmentalists cannot seek damages after the government temporarily allowed ...
Criminal
San Francisco jury convicts three men of illegally selling pharmaceutical drugs online
By Hadley Robinson
Rejecting defense arguments that the law was murky, a San Francisco jury found three men guilty Thursday on all counts of cons...
Wednesday's revelation that the Los Angeles County Superior Court would impose massive budget cuts looked, at first, like an e...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
First, we have the so-called fiscal cliff, comprised of an incredibly long list of expiring tax breaks (including the Bush Era...
Author Jim Collins identifies five major stages of the decline of a major business organization, including the critically impo...
The popular conception is that defendants with two strikes would not receive life sentences in future cases if their third fel...
The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County announced Wednesday the election of Stacey K. Keare as the new president of its boar...
Former Nixon Peabody LLP partner David M. Tamman, convicted this week of helping an ex-client cover up a multimillion-dollar P...
The U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday released their long-anticipated guide meant...
California bankruptcy lawyers are closely following an incoming set of federal regulations that would require them to track an...
Law Practice
Norton Rose merger expected to boost Fulbright's operations in California
By Ameera Buttn
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and international law firm Norton Rose announced their merger Wednesday, pushing up their ranks t...
Environmental
Dole sued for claiming to be eco-friendly while hiding damage
By Fiona Smith
Dole Food Co. has been slapped with a potential class action lawsuit over claims it cheated consumers by hiding ecological dam...
