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Top Women Lawyers


Juanita Brooks

May 11, 2011
By Pat Broderick

Fish & Richardson PC Location: San Diego Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Patent


Top Women Lawyers


Laura W. Brill

May 11, 2011
By Pat Broderick

Kendall Brill & Klieger LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Intellectual property, ...



Top Women Lawyers


Robyn C. Crowther

May 11, 2011
By Pat Broderick

Caldwell Leslie & Proctor PC Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Civil litigation Practice specialty: Entertainment, i...


Top Women Lawyers


Elena R. Baca

May 11, 2011
By Pat Broderick

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Employment



Top Women Lawyers


Nancy L. Abell

May 11, 2011
By Pat Broderick

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Employment


Top Women Lawyers


Top Women Lawyers

May 11, 2011
By STEPHEN LARSON

Our annual list of the Top Women lawyers in the state.



Top Women Lawyers


Bobbie J. Wilson

May 11, 2011
By Pat Broderick

Perkins Coie LLP Location: San Francisco Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Patent infringement, trade secret...



Kelli L. Sager

May 11, 2011
By Erica E. Phillips

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Media and entertainment, inte...



Top Women Lawyers


Patricia Glaser

May 11, 2011
By Pat Broderick

Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard, Avchen & Shapiro LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice speci...


Top Women Lawyers


Janet Levine

May 11, 2011
By Pat Broderick

Crowell & Moring LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: White collar Practice specialty: Regulatory enforcement



Law Practice


Nonprofits Feel Crush of Consumer Cases

May 11, 2011
By Ben Adlin

The worst of the economic crisis may have passed, but legal nonprofits are still struggling under a rash of foreclosures, bank...


Judicial Profile


Jerome E. Brock

May 11, 2011
By Craig Andersonn

Judge Jerome E. Brock, who has handled 10 murder cases in the past 18 months, is known for writing well-thought-out opinions a...



Criminal


Judge Rules Officials Are Covered by FCPA

May 11, 2011
By Gabe Friedmann

A federal judge in Santa Ana has ruled that a jury should be allowed to determine whether employees at a state-owned corporati...


Learn the early warning signs of possible law firm troubles ahead. By Edwin B. Reeser and James B. Hunt ...



Litigation


TiVo Wins Stay in Microsoft Case

May 11, 2011
By Craig Andersonn

TiVo Inc. won a tactical victory in a lawsuit with Microsoft Corp. that is part of a sprawling feud between the maker of digit...


Litigation


Oracle Founder Sues Over Trees

May 11, 2011
By Amy Yarbroughn

Oracle founder Lawrence J. Ellison is involved in a lawsuit in San Francisco that accuses a couple of letting their trees get ...



Litigation


An Old Statute Needs An Update

May 11, 2011
By Sharon Liangn

Senate Bill 603 will expand the protections afforded by the vexatious litigant statute. By Kim Stone of the Civil Justice Asso...


Real Estate/Development


Players in Mortgage Scheme Plead Guilty

May 11, 2011
By Anna Scott

The two defendants pleaded guilty in a Northern California mortgage fraud case that some lawyers said signals federal and stat...



Perspective


Did America's killing of Osama bin Laden send the wrong message to the international community? By Joseph F. C. DiMento of UCI...


Corporate Counsel


John L.G. Whittle

May 11, 2011
By Jill Redhage

Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Fortinet Inc. Sunnyvale ...



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


Homebuyers Seek to Sue Developers

May 11, 2011
By Laura Ernden

California homebuyers who got squeezed in the collapse of the housing market might get a second chance to blame developers for...


Criminal


Count Dismissed as FCPA Case Goes to Jury

May 11, 2011
By Gabe Friedmann

Federal prosecutors faced renewed criticism Monday for their handling of a closely watched foreign bribery trial as the judge ...



Litigation


Quest Diagnostics Agrees To Record Qui Tam Deal

May 11, 2011
By Amy Yarbroughn

Quest Diagnostics Inc., the state's largest diagnostic testing laboratory, has agreed to pay $241 million to settle claims it ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Deal Makers

May 10, 2011
By Robert Pierce

Latham & Watkins LLP advised sports apparel company Volcom Inc. on its $607.5 million acquisition by French holding compan...



Law Practice


Wilson Sonsini Looks to Next 50 Years

May 10, 2011
By Jill Redhage

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC turned 50 this year - it was founded in 1961 as McCloskey, Wilson & Mosher - and i...


Corporate Counsel


Taking TV on the Road

May 10, 2011
By Mandy Jacksonn

Chief business officer, general counsel and senior vice president for PacketVideo Corp. San Diego ...



Obituaries


Thomas G. Nelson

May 10, 2011
By Laura Ernden

1936-2011 ...


Litigation


MGA Asks for More Bratz Damages

May 10, 2011
By Jason W. Armstrong

Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc., which persuaded a jury last month to hit Mattel Inc. with an $88 million judgment i...



Labor/Employment


The government declares war on retirement fiduciaries who violate the law. By David McFarlane of Snell & Wilmer LLP and Sa...


Law Practice


Legal Jobs Rise in April

May 10, 2011
By Ben Adlin

The legal services sector added 1,500 jobs in April, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The largest increase since Septem...