The case law in recent years illustrates that many attorneys defer blindly to technology without attempting to understand its ...
If enforcing rights to public records carries with it a risk of having to pay the government's legal fees and costs, the PRA w...
Perspective
Policies clash when it comes to subdivision improvement bonds
By Ben Armisteadn
There is no guidance reconciling competing policies -- that taxpayers should not be burdened by the installation of public imp...
In a major victory for the Warner Bros.-owned publisher, a federal circuit court judge Wednesday rejected an attempt by the he...
Marcia J. Koslov, who has spent her career as a law librarian from Wisconsin to California, will retire Dec. 31 as executive d...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
State Bar trial continues against Del Norte County DA
By Saul Sugarman
A probation officer testified Wednesday that she accepted a $14,000 loan from Del Norte County District Attorney Jon M. Alexan...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sullivan & Cromwell advises Cymer Inc. in its $2.5 billion sale
By David Ruiz
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP counseled San Diego-based lithography research and development company Cymer Inc. in its sale to N...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Santa Clara prosecutor faces State Bar allegations of evidence suppression
By Hadley Robinson
A Santa Clara County prosecutor knew there was a videotape of the medical examination of a young sexual assault victim in a ca...
Labor/Employment
Age discrimination claims to go before jury in lab layoff case
By Laura Hautalan
Former employees of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory won the right late last week to bring age discrimination complaints...
Law Practice
Glaser Weil adds ex-Munger Tolles lawyer to its real estate practice
By Alexandra Schwappach
Full-service law firm Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP added a new senior partner in the firm's real es...
Education
Longtime Santa Clara University School of Law dean stepping down
By Craig Anderson
Donald Polden, who has served as dean at Santa Clara University School of Law since 2003, will step down at the end of this sc...
The city of Bell sued Nixon Peabody LLP for legal malpractice last week, claiming the firm helped city officials rush through ...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an informal inquiry into San Bernadino's finances, according to an Oct. ...
Litigation
As Congress delays, federal courts anxiously await budget cuts
By Ben Adlin
Budget cuts will hit federal courts hard next year under so-called "sequestration," a set of automatic reductions that could f...
Criminal
Appellate lawyers, Supreme Court deal with uncertainty of anti-death penalty initiative
By Henry Meier
If passed, Proposition 34 would alter not only the lives of the 726 inmates on death row, but those of the attorneys tasked wi...
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP assisted in the $2.7 million acquisition of the Clairemont Village Shopping...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit hears argument over California pollution law
By John Roemer
California's pioneering struggle to confront climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions from auto fuels was on the lin...
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