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Environmental


Retailers to Cut Lead In Purses

Jun. 4, 2010
By Fiona Smith

Oakland-based Center for Environmental Health announced a first-of-its-kind settlement Wednesday with 40 major retailers over ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Settlement Could Total $25 Million

Jun. 4, 2010
By John Roemer

The massive antitrust multidistrict class action against makers of Static Random Access Memory computer devices is set for a s...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Attorneys Sidelined for Fraud

Jun. 4, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

Two more attorneys have been placed on inactive status as the result of a State Bar dragnet focused on loan modification fraud...


Government


Keker's Independence Questioned

Jun. 4, 2010
By Dhyana Levey

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Wednesday tore into District Attorney Kamala Harris over her recent efforts to ma...


Administrative/Regulatory


PETCO Punished for Mistreatment

Jun. 4, 2010
By Pat Broderick

Law enforcers took a $1.75 million bite out of PETCO Animal Supplies Inc. to settle penalties and costs from a civil case alle...


Law Practice


ABA Honors Public Law Center Director

Jun. 4, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

The American Bar Association will honor Kenneth Babcock, who heads the Orange County-based Public Law Center, at its upcoming ...


Judges and Judiciary


Appellate Justice Steps Down

Jun. 4, 2010
By Pat Alston

James A. Ardaiz, the administrative presiding justice of the 5th District Court of Appeal whose artistic vision led to the lim...


Government


U.S. Attorney to Join Jones Day

Jun. 4, 2010
By Pat Broderick

Departing U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Karen Hewitt has signed on as a partner in the San Diego offic...


Environmental


Court Says Companies Can Intervene

Jun. 4, 2010
By Fiona Smith

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that companies being held liable for groundwater contamination in the San Gabriel ...


Product Liability


Toyota Playing Hardball in Court

Jun. 4, 2010
By Gabe Friedmann

Lawyers representing Toyota Motor Corp. have employed a tough-as-nails discovery strategy in the past that has drawn fines, sa...


Scores of lawsuits against British Petroleum and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have already been fi...


Labor/Employment


Employer to Be Tried on FMLA Claims

Jun. 4, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

A terminated employee proceeds to trial on claims that her employer interfered and retaliated against her right to take medica...


Perspective


Damon Rubin says a recent California Supreme Court case will guide attorneys and courts in applying the commercial speech exem...


Law Practice


Working With Angels

Jun. 4, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Tim Tosta of Luce Forward reflects on the world of a lawyer, which is at times, shockingly brutal. ...


Books


The Law of War: Then and Now

Jun. 4, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

In "The War on Terror and the Laws of War," six legal scholars with experience as military officers apply their unique experti...


Criminal


Defendant Complains of Backlog

Jun. 4, 2010
By Jason W. Armstrong

A San Francisco civil attorney facing a murder charge in Riverside County is asking the California Supreme Court to dismiss hi...


California Supreme Court


California's dysfunctional death penalty system took center stage at the California Supreme Court this week, with the justices...


Judicial Profile


Sim von Kalinowski

Jun. 4, 2010
By Pat Broderick

San Diego County family law judge Sim von Kalinowski followed his father into the legal profession but chose a different pract...


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate Movers & Dealmakers

Jun. 3, 2010
By Michael Gottliebn

Landlord Douglas Emmett Inc. secured a law firm and a legal consulting company for its 10-story office building at 8383 Wilshi...


Obituaries


A Giant of the Defense Bar

Jun. 3, 2010
By Ciaran Mcevoyn

Theodore P. Shield, 1920-2010


Administrative/Regulatory


Playing By the Rules Gets Results

Jun. 3, 2010
By Don Debenedictisn

Patricia A. Pinto, a lawyer at the Orange County Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, helps homeowners get mortgage loan modificati...


Criminal


New S.F. Unit to Review Past Cases

Jun. 3, 2010
By Dhyana Levey

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris has created a new unit to examine the potential consequences reports of law e...


Real Estate/Development


Disabled Tenants Get Reprieve

Jun. 3, 2010
By Jason W. Armstrong

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's intervention helped fuel settlements that will allow a dozen disabled tenants to remain in their ...


Law Practice


Cheng Named Chair in China

Jun. 3, 2010
By Sara Randazzon

Northern California partner David Cheng is the new chair of Nixon Peabody's 15-attorney China practice, the firm announced Tue...


Intellectual Property


Patents in China See Progress

Jun. 3, 2010
By Mandy Jacksonn

Attorneys representing California high-technology and biotechnology companies are anxious to see whether new revisions to Chin...


Large Firms


China Outposts Face Struggles

Jun. 3, 2010
By Jill Redhage

As China continues to amass enormous wealth, power and influence in the global economy, California-based law firms have been f...


Criminal


FCPA Creating Hurdles in China

Jun. 3, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

China presents an almost-perfect storm of factors that make complying with U.S. anti-corruption laws difficult, experts say. ...


U.S. Supreme Court


L.A. Sewage Sludge Case Declined

Jun. 3, 2010
By Lawrence Hurleyn

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to get its hands dirty Tuesday over whether a local regulation can stop the City of Los Angele...


Judges and Judiciary


Seat Opens on Patent Appeals Court

Jun. 3, 2010
By Craig Anderson

A former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is taking senior status at the end of the month, cre...


Family


35 Welfare Lawyers May Lose Jobs

Jun. 3, 2010
By Pat Broderick

The jobs of up to 35 child dependency lawyers are hanging in the balance, as San Diego County Public Defender Henry C. Coker m...