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Corporate Counsel


Shannon Smith

Aug. 31, 2012
By David Mc Afee

General Counsel and Director of Information Governance Globanet Sherman Oaks ...


Perspective


The Supreme Court has repeatedly declared that trial courts are required to enjoin picket line violence and intimidation. By W...


Intellectual Property


In Art of Living, the court did not excuse the fact that the blog was only visited a few hundred times. By Dan Berman a...


Perspective


Don't wait to refine boilerplates

Aug. 31, 2012
By Michael Leen

Most business leaders and many lawyers give only passing thought to the boilerplate provisions in their companies' consumer co...


Constitutional Law


Orange County gadfly must hold his tongue

Aug. 31, 2012
By Ben Adlinn

A man silenced at an Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting lacks standing to challenge a county rule restricting inflamma...


Government


Deposition-limiting bill goes to governor

Aug. 31, 2012
By Paul Jones

A bill that would limit to seven hours the length of time plaintiffs are subject to depositions in many cases passed the state...


Large Firms


The second time's the charm for formerly named Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, the New York-based firm that is once again seekin...


Judges and Judiciary


Sitting judges have been told they won't have to pay increased pension contributions in the state's pension overhaul bill, but...


Corporate


Davis Polk, Simpson Thacher help in HVAC sale

Aug. 31, 2012
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Bay-area attorneys from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP assisted in Daikin Industries Ltd...


The controversial Alliance of California Judges was an important, but not dominant, factor in the election of Orange County Su...


The decision reverses the federal district court as well as the state Supreme Court, which affirmed the conviction 12 years ag...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Deals

Aug. 30, 2012
By Connie Lopezn

MV TanVentures LLC inked a five-year lease with E-Holdings LP to open an iTan tanning salon at Eastlake Terraces in Chula Vista.


Government


Two years after Citizens United, the ruling is stirring proposals to add more disclosure requirements in California campaigns ...


Perspective


Precedent for Prometheus

Aug. 30, 2012
By Michael Leen

A new application of a law of nature might be patent-eligible, but it must also be more than the application of the law to a s...


Entertainment & Sports


Change of scenery: arbitration at the Olympics

Aug. 30, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Serving as an arbitrator at the Olympic Games is a different kind of gig - and the eyes of the world are watching. By Maidie O...


Perspective


In practice, the threat of a fee award brings otherwise reluctant employers to the settlement table even when they feel that t...


Litigation


Strategy in Section 998 offers to compromise

Aug. 30, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

As a recent decision vividly demonstrates, if such offers are carelessly drafted, fees can also be awarded - post acceptance. ...


Intellectual Property


Prometheus for the practitioner

Aug. 30, 2012
By Ben Armisteadn

Patent attorneys may need to stiffen their resolve and make sure that they exercise extreme caution when claiming subject matt...


Litigation


UC Berkeley School of Law is kicking off initiation of its California Constitution Center with a moot court for attorneys prep...


Intellectual Property


Google Inc.-owned Motorola Mobility LLC reached a settlement with Apple Inc. over the Cupertino-based company's infringement o...


Tax


San Diego lawyer barred from tax work

Aug. 30, 2012
By Ben Adlin

A San Diego lawyer accused of helping clients evade income taxes can no longer give tax advice or prepare others' returns, acc...


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


An online financial services company must pay $3.7 million in civil contempt sanctions for violating a court order to stop mis...


Obituaries


Stephen E. Claman, 1932-2012

Aug. 30, 2012
By Connie Lopez

Stephen E. Claman, a noted real estate lawyer in the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machinger LLP...


Law Practice


Firms seeing uptick in labor and employment work

Aug. 30, 2012
By Andrew Mc Intyre

Full service firms and boutiques have seen an increase in activity over the past year. ...


Government


A state Senate bill that would increase how much victims and insurers get for medical damages passed an Assembly Judiciary Com...


Judicial Profile


Leslie E. Brown

Aug. 30, 2012
By Pat Alston

Judge Leslie Brown fell into the law, but he takes it seriously, and litigants should, too.


Intellectual Property


Apple's patent win puts company on the offensive

Aug. 29, 2012
By Hadley Robinson

Apple Inc.'s $1 billion verdict from a San Jose federal jury for patent and trade dress infringement Friday is only likely to ...


Law Practice


Courts and litigants are often confused about just who can enforce a mortgage that has been transferred in the secondary marke...


California Supreme Court


A Santa Clara County deputy district attorney who is now a judge had a key role in willful prosecutorial misconduct, the state...


Personal Injury & Torts


A plaintiffs' claim of medical negligence in a case of a woman who may have been sent to the morgue alive cannot proceed after...