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


Children of lawful immigrants whose bids to accompany their parents to the United States were stalled by paperwork delays got ...


Large Firms


Ex-Luce Forward lawyers sacked as McKenna downsizes

Sep. 28, 2012
By Alexandra Schwappach

Six months after merging with Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP has shed 15 lawyers nat...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Sep. 27, 2012
By Connie Lopezn

The Stonecrest office building, located at 9640 Granite Ridge Drive in San Diego, scored $4.2 million in first mortgage refina...


Corporate


Online games publisher announces new GC

Sep. 27, 2012
By David Mc Afee

Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a Redwood City-based online games publisher, announced Tuesday the appointment of its first ...


The Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate is seeking to hire Jones Day partner Bruce Bennett to pursue a cut of the legal fees from t...


Internet company 3taps Inc. responded this week to Craigslist Inc.'s claims of copyright infringement by calling the lawsuit a...


Litigation


A Los Angeles County judge on Tuesday struck down film financier David Bergstein's $100 million complaint against two law firm...


Law Practice


Organization retains law firm as counsel

Sep. 27, 2012
By David Mc Afee

The California Center for Sustainable Energy has selected Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as its outside general counsel. ...


Law Practice


White & Case LLP has boosted its Silicon Valley corporate bench with the addition of two new partners who most recently se...


Large Firms


Thompson & Knight LLP will open its first West Coast location in Los Angeles Monday and plans to focus on commercial, corp...


Ballard Spahr LLP welcomed back to its Los Angeles office Tuesday three lawyers who had departed the firm earlier this year fo...


Judges and Judiciary


San Francisco County Superior Court Judge John K. Stewart has been selected as the next assistant presiding judge of the court...


Intellectual Property


San Jose-based ActiveVideo Networks Inc. has settled its patent dispute with Verizon Communications Inc. over interactive tele...


Judges and Judiciary


Oki endorsed by supervising judges, former PJs

Sep. 27, 2012
By Brian Sumersn

Three former presiding judges and nine current supervising judges have endorsed Pomona's Dan T. Oki in the upcoming election f...


Due to budget cuts, court administrators at several of the state's larger courts have frozen cost of living adjustments, and a...


Judicial Profile


Arthur L. Alarcón

Sep. 27, 2012
By John Roemer

Senior Circuit Judge Arthur L. Alarcón has strong views about the state's death penalty system.


Criminal


Debate over impact of realignment heats up

Sep. 27, 2012
By Henry Meier

Nearly a year into California's realignment law, debate over the radical legislation shifting responsibility for tens of thous...


Perspective


NLRB bans 'confidentiality admonitions'

Sep. 27, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Internal investigators can no longer request that witnesses refrain from discussing the subject matter of the investigation wi...


Bankruptcy


Sellers and service providers regularly extend credit to their customers, and often end up with general unsecured claims in th...


Perspective


The board has made it clear that its guidelines on social media issues apply to all employers, not just those with unionized w...


Perspective


Getting 'real' about law firm balance sheets

Sep. 27, 2012
By Michael Leen

It is the total equity invested in the enterprise relative to the need for short term working capital that matters, not how mu...


Letter to the Editor


Parties contractually obligated to mediate are not required to settle. Made to talk, yes, but to agree, no. By Scott Markus of...


Perspective


Justices commend bar ethics probe

Sep. 27, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

The State Bar should be commended for examining the campaign materials of every lawyer who ran for judge this year. By Ming W....


Perspective


The California Corporations Commissioner recently adopted a new exemption from registration for certain investment advisers in...


Judges and Judiciary


After two decades on the bench, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ellen L. Chaitin is retiring. ...


Law Practice


A former client of SNR Denton US LLP is alleging the law firm was slow to revise a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fil...


Members of a special State Bar task force are not sure what sort of training in practical lawyering skills they may demand of ...


Judicial Profile


Rebecca C. Hardie

Sep. 27, 2012
By Fiona Smith

Judge Rebecca C. Hardie's work as a probation officer influenced her approach on the bench


Judges and Judiciary


San Diego County Superior Court's civil departments will lose court reporters in November, a court spokeswoman announced Tuesd...


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


A man who served 19 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit got a second chance to seek damages from Los Angeles...