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In the new book, "The Science of Attorney Advocacy: How Courtroom Behavior Affects Jury Decision Making," the authors attempt ...


U.S. Supreme Court


It is important that we search for the best qualified candidates for the Supreme Court from as large and meaningful a pool of ...


The Southern California Chapter of Association of Corporate Counsel hosted its 14th Annual Charity Golf Classic on Monday. Th...


Litigation


Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Nicholas III's effort to claim hundreds of millions in losses from a tax shelter was rejected ...


Community News


Fox Rothschild’s Los Angeles office has teamed up with Verbum Dei High School for a corporate work-study program that will int...


Community News


Nossaman LLP celebrates anniversary and new office

Sep. 29, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

On Aug. 21, Nossaman LLP hosted an open house in celebration of its 70th anniversary and relocation of its Sacramento office t...


Government


With Monday's one-year anniversary of realignment, the ACLU is one of many organizations looking at initial results of the law...


Labor/Employment


A new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday will prohibit employers from requesting user names and passwords for social n...


Community News


SDVLP holds award ceremony

Sep. 29, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program held its annual Justice For All Celebration on Sept. 13. Those honored at the event were (f...


Solo and Small Firms


Aerlex Law Group is an all-encompassing service for any aviation related legal matter, representing private charter companies ...


Community News


Lawyers, clients and friends of the firm gathered at Fenwick & West LLP’s headquarters in Mountain View last week to celeb...


Arbitrator Profile


James P. Lingl

Sep. 29, 2012
By Ben Adlin

Neutral James P. Lingl considers himself a stubbornly sincere holdout for the possibility of compromise between litigants -- e...


Community News


Best Best & Krieger LLP hosts open house

Sep. 29, 2012
By Caitlin Johnson

Attorneys at Best Best & Krieger’s Riverside office held an open house on Sept. 13 to celebrate its new location at the Ci...


California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. held an awards ceremony last Saturday and honored the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Mille...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Ontario lawyer Gary David Tracy mislead distressed homeowners, according to the bar. Among his abuses included filing shell pe...


Intellectual Property


Striving to carve away part of Apple Inc.'s trademark lawsuit over use of the term "App Store," defendant Amazon.com Inc. on W...


Large Firms


Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP welcomed a commercial litigator specializing in complex business disputes and anti...


Government


As part of a broader effort to increase efficiency and accountability in the judicial branch, council leaders are working to r...


Government


With Monday's one-year anniversary of realignment, the ACLU is one of many organizations looking at initial results of the law...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Sep. 28, 2012
By Andrew Mcintyre

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


State Bar & Bar Associations


John K. Rubiner, president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, doesn't intend to lose sight of the bar's true center of grav...


Perspective


Playing down the plight of egg farm fowl

Sep. 28, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

The humorous opening, "how much room does a chicken need to do a pirouette?" frames the issue from the egg industry's perspect...


Follow these rules and you'll reduce your chances of coming to grief from the Internal Revenue Service - in your practice and ...


International


US manufacturers and sellers exiting China

Sep. 28, 2012
By Michael Leen

Adidas is closing its factory in China, Starbucks will move manufacturing of its mugs back to the U.S., and Home Depot plans t...


Labor/Employment


A federal judge granted certification to two putative classes of female Costco Wholesale Corporation employees on Tuesday, re...


Judges and Judiciary


The election of assistant presiding judge of Los Angeles County Superior Court has turned increasingly contentious as the coun...


Three prominent defense attorneys based in San Francisco have been accused of making "demonstrably false" claims in an ongoing...


Litigation


A federal judge said Hewlett-Packard Co.'s shareholders did not prove directors gave an excessive severance package to former ...


California Supreme Court


Employment - and its parameters, limitations and conditions - is one dominant theme among the civil cases pending before the s...


Corporate


OpenX Technologies Inc., a Los Angeles-based provider of digital and mobile advertising technology, has appointed its first ch...