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The New Lawyer Supplement


Bar Exam insiders debunk myths about test

Nov. 17, 2012
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


While a win for employees, 24 Hour Fitness does not mean employers should not still consider class action waivers in th...


Perspective


Litigation funding lands in America

Nov. 17, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

A recent decision is likely to bolster the prospects of increased third-party litigation funding. By Kenneth A. Linzer and Eli...


Intellectual Property


Michelle Lee, the former head of patent strategy at Google Inc. who stepped down earlier this year, will head the new satellit...


Community News


MALDEF hosts annual awards gala

Nov. 17, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

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


Sixteen-lawyer Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt & Klein LLP started as a civil trial firm and has evolved to devote 80 percent of ...


Reporting on a detailed audit of lawyers' compliance with continuing education rules, a bar staffer told a committee of the ba...


Reed Smith LLP represented publicly traded utilities company American Water Works Co. Inc. in its agreement for a $1 billion r...


Community News


CAOC hosts convention in San Francisco

Nov. 17, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

Consumer Attorneys of California held its 51st Annual Convention on Nov. 8-11 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The weeken...


Community News


Robert I. Weil Lecture held in Los Angeles

Nov. 17, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

The Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Center for Civic Mediation hosted the 7th Annual Robert I. Weil Lecture, "The N...


Constitutional Law


The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 2006 Michigan ballot initiative, Proposal 2, which bans affirmative action in u...


Entertainment & Sports


Paparazzi law fails first court test

Nov. 17, 2012
By Jean Yung

A 2010 California law targeting paparazzi who drive recklessly failed in its first test in court Wednesday. ...


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


A nonprofit biomedical research sought to have a $58 million verdict against Pfizer Inc. reinstated Thursday in oral arguments...


Litigation


Judge considers Facebook privacy settlement

Nov. 17, 2012
By Hadley Robinson

A federal judge considered a revised proposed class action settlement to resolve a privacy lawsuit against Facebook Inc. on Th...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Craig S. Meredith

Nov. 17, 2012
By Emily Green

A peacemaker at heart, Craig S. Meredith disliked his job as a business litigator so much he left the law to become a teacher....


A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that environmentalists cannot seek damages after the government temporarily allowed ...


Rejecting defense arguments that the law was murky, a San Francisco jury found three men guilty Thursday on all counts of cons...


Government


Budget cut announcement comes at strategic time

Nov. 17, 2012
By Blake Edwardsn

Wednesday's revelation that the Los Angeles County Superior Court would impose massive budget cuts looked, at first, like an e...


The New Lawyer Supplement


The New Lawyer

Nov. 16, 2012
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Nov. 16, 2012
By David Ruiz

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



Year-end tax tips

Nov. 16, 2012

First, we have the so-called fiscal cliff, comprised of an incredibly long list of expiring tax breaks (including the Bush Era...


Large Firms


Review: "How the Mighty Fall"

Nov. 16, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Author Jim Collins identifies five major stages of the decline of a major business organization, including the critically impo...


Perspective


A closer look at Prop. 36

Nov. 16, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

The popular conception is that defendants with two strikes would not receive life sentences in future cases if their third fel...


Law Practice


The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County announced Wednesday the election of Stacey K. Keare as the new president of its boar...


Litigation


What will happen to Tamman's civil suit?

Nov. 16, 2012
By Ben Adlin

Former Nixon Peabody LLP partner David M. Tamman, convicted this week of helping an ex-client cover up a multimillion-dollar P...


Litigation


The U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday released their long-anticipated guide meant...


Bankruptcy


California bankruptcy lawyers are closely following an incoming set of federal regulations that would require them to track an...


Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and international law firm Norton Rose announced their merger Wednesday, pushing up their ranks t...


Environmental


Dole Food Co. has been slapped with a potential class action lawsuit over claims it cheated consumers by hiding ecological dam...