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California Supreme Court


For the first time in nearly a century, the California Supreme Court addressed an issue that seems basic to wage-and-hour law ...


Law Practice


Employment Rate for Grads Hits a Low

May 21, 2010
By Sara Randazzon

The employment rate for 2009 law school graduates, at 88.3 percent, is the lowest it's been since the mid-1990s, according to ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


O'Melveny Advises on Gamer Deal

May 20, 2010
By Kari Hamanakan

Partner Paul Sieben and associates Sofia Lou and Robert Liu represented Acclaim Games Inc. in the game developers' acquisition...


Government


Foster Reappointed to Committee

May 20, 2010
By Craig Anderson

Mark Foster, a San Jose-based partner at Bergeson LLP, has been reappointed to a government committee that will advise U.S. Se...


Government


Pension Woes Spur Lawsuits

May 20, 2010
By Pat Broderick

Promises, promises. California's pension systems made plenty of them during flush times and now jurisdictions are struggling t...


Energy Law


Energy Project Seals Financing

May 20, 2010
By Fiona Smith

A major geothermal energy project broke ground this week in Imperial County, made possible by a $400 million debt and equity f...


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


9th Circuit Lifts Donation Ban

May 20, 2010
By Pat Broderick

The city of San Diego has been handed a setback by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has lifted a stay banning politic...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Movers & Dealmakers

May 20, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Weekly wrap up of law firm moves and real estate related transactions.


Government


Social Hosts May Face New Law

May 20, 2010
By Greg Kanen

California lawmakers are working to close a loophole in state law that protects "social hosts" who provide minors with alcohol...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Fight With Doctors Escalates

May 20, 2010
By Evan George

The legal battle between a renowned cancer center and its doctors escalated this week, with the City of Hope Medical Center fi...


Intellectual Property


The Day Lawyers Took Over Baseball

May 20, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Dan Lawton imagines a time where baseball club owners sign on a lawyer-commissioner to negotiate deals, reform rules and tweak...


Law Practice


Company Protected From GC Deceit

May 20, 2010
By Laura Ernden

When a general counsel's negligence resulted in a $4 million default judgment against his company, California courts stepped i...


Government


AG Race Is Coming Down to Wire, With No Clear Leaders

May 20, 2010
By Sandra Hernandezn

With the June primary just around the corner and no clear frontrunner in the state's attorney general's race, political analys...


Labor/Employment


Pay Now or Pay Much More Later

May 20, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

To truly improve mining safety, mine owners as well as the board of directors must understand that it pays to emphasize safety...


Securities


Biotech IPOs Show Positive Signs

May 20, 2010
By Mandy Jacksonn

Biotechnology companies going public this year know that to make money they have to spend money on lawyers and financial advis...


Criminal


When the Innocent Are Sentenced to Death

May 20, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Maurice Possley of the Northern California Innocence Project reviews "Killing Time: An 18-year Odyssey from Death Row to Freed...


Environmental


Fireworks May Be Endangered

May 20, 2010
By Pat Broderick

Coastal communities from San Diego to Santa Barbara are being put on notice: Either monitor and mitigate the environmental imp...


Community News


May 19, 2010
By MANNING & KASS ELLROD RAMIREZ TRETER LLP

By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer One night a week criminal defense attorney Mark Daniel Melnick joins his frie...


Law Practice


Summer Opportunities Dry Up

May 19, 2010
By Sara Randazzon

The heyday of easily landing plum, high-paying summer law jobs is over. But that may not be such a bad thing. That's the messa...


Securities


More Cities Join Investment Suits

May 19, 2010
By Gabe Friedmann

Richmond, Redwood City, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and the East Bay Municipal District joined more than a dozen ot...


Law Practice


DLA Piper Continues Expansion

May 19, 2010
By Anna Scott

DLA Piper will open a new office in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 1, the firm announced Tuesday.


Law Practice


Pillsbury Raises Associate Salaries

May 19, 2010
By Sara Randazzon

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman raised associate salaries to pre-recession levels, with starting base pay again at $160,000 in...


Family


Lawyer Wants Arguments Broadcast

May 19, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

An attorney for a coalition of news organizations sent a letter to Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker Tuesday aski...


Entertainment & Sports


Dispute with Goldman Lands in Court

May 19, 2010
By Jean Luc Renault

Film producer Joel Silver, whose credits include "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Matrix," has sued Goldman Sachs for $30 million, a...


Public Interest


Turning a Corner

May 19, 2010
By Sara Randazzon

Frankie Guzman has come a long way to become a student at UCLA School of Law.


Law Practice


Jobless Flock to Law Schools

May 19, 2010
By Kari Hamanakan

Law school applications are shooting up nationally even as the legal services industry faces its toughest times in years and t...


Law Practice


Dog Days for Summer Associates

May 19, 2010
By Kari Hamanakan

With summer associate class sizes reduced for a second year in a row, the shock of 2009's cutbacks have led to questions of wh...


Law Practice


Lawyers Fly the Coop to Aviation Firm

May 19, 2010
By Anna Scott

The new aviation industry boutique Fitzpatrick & Hunt, Tucker, Collier, Pagano, Aubert on Monday opened for business in Lo...


Law Practice


Greenberg Traurig Adds Three

May 19, 2010
By Anna Scott

Greenberg Traurig has added three shareholders in San Francisco, bringing corporate, litigation and intellectual property capa...


Perspective


Mining Safety: A Neglected Area of the Law

May 19, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Mining safety law needs to be revised to prevent further accidents that unnecessarily take the lives of minors, writes Jeffrey...