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Firm Watch


On the Move

Dec. 10, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Ropes & Gray snagged San Francisco assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Li-Ming Wong to join the firm’s government enforcement ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


The crowded Los Angeles mediation market is about to get a new competitor. ...


Law Practice


The Los Angeles affiliate of Dreier LLP will continue to operate as a separate entity from its New York headquarters now that ...


Public Interest


Anti-Defamation League Honors L.A. Attorney

Dec. 10, 2008
By Amanda Becker

The Anti-Defamation League, a national civil rights organization that raises awareness of anti-Semitism and bigotry, will hono...


Law Practice


K&L Gates, Bell Boyd Weigh Merger

Dec. 10, 2008
By Pat Broderick

The firms K&L Gates and Chicago-based Bell, Boyd & Lloyd are considering a possible merger next year, hoping the combi...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


AB 2738 was borne out of the collaborative efforts of builders and subcontractors working closely together to gain consensus i...


Law Practice


The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to take up Sunnyvale-based Finisar Corp.'s efforts to reinstate a $104 million paten...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


SLAPPed Down

Dec. 10, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

California courts of appeal have allowed government entities and their employees to use the anti-SLAPP statute to strike lawsu...


Law Practice


Roman Polanski's recent allegations of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the sentencing phase of his 1970s statutory ra...


Litigation


Assaulted Girl Can Sue Schools, Court Says

Dec. 10, 2008
By Jim Adamekn

Declaring that school officials "may need an incentive" to protect "special needs" students from attack, an appellate panel in...


Law Practice


Rick Frenkel, the one-time "Patent Troll Tracker" who was sued earlier this year along with his former employer, Cisco Systems...


Judges and Judiciary


County Superior Court Judge Kathryne A. Stoltz will leave the Van Nuys Courthouse this month after 23 years on the bench. ...


Law Practice


The U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for the third time this term, over an antitru...


Law Practice


9th Circuit: S.F. Ex-Cops Not Immune

Dec. 10, 2008
By John Roemer

Two legendary retired San Francisco homicide inspectors, one a former police chief, will remain the target of a civil rights s...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Lean, Mean Class Action Fees

Dec. 10, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Attorneys trying to persuade a judge to award them lodestar fees should stress they used conservative billing practices and ma...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Dec. 9, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Latham & Watkins has hired a long-time U.S. Department of Justice attorney as a partner in the firm's Washington D.C. office.


A trial judge in Los Angeles went too far in trying to help movie-going wheelchair users, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...


Law Practice


Stanford Law School will unveil a first-of-its-kind online database today that tracks every patent lawsuit filed in the United...


Law Practice


Visa Ruling Buoys Choir Director

Dec. 9, 2008
By Evan George

Immigration officials were wrong to strip the immigrant choir director of a Los Angeles--area Korean Presbyterian church of hi...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Final Examination

Dec. 9, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A recent 9th Circuit decision illustrates that persuading the Court of Appeals to intercede in ongoing trial court proceedings...


Criminal


S.D. Court Bombing Defendant Pleads Guilty

Dec. 9, 2008
By Pat Broderick

A second defendant in the spring bombing of a federal court building and Federal Express distribution center in San Diego has ...


Law Practice


The dissolving Heller Ehrman found itself in more hot water last week when the landlord of its former San Francisco headquarte...


Transactions


Sonnenschein Taps Insurance Expert

Dec. 9, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal nabbed a leading insurance regulatory lawyer to gear up for what the firm believes will be a...


Transactions


Legal Jobs in Decline

Dec. 9, 2008
By Amanda Becker

The number of legal jobs declined for the sixth consecutive month in November and contributed to the largest monthly employmen...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


In response to evidence that systematic, dehumanizing bias is at the heart of many crimes against homeless people, Congress sh...


Litigation


Judge Cancels Telecom Fee Award

Dec. 9, 2008
By Noah Barronn

A judge in Alameda has revised an earlier award in the closely watched Sprint early-termination fee telecom case and ruled tha...


Intellectual Property


Although many law firms are reeling from the ailing economy, the area of intellectual property appears to be thriving. ...


Law Practice


Justices Take Final Bush Detainee Case

Dec. 9, 2008
By Lawrence Hurleyn

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday to hear what will be the last of the major detainee cases arising from the Bush administ...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Trial by Fire

Dec. 8, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Centered on a 2005 Los Angeles criminal trial of a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's initial Senate campaign, Paul Mark Sandler...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Dec. 8, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Arent Fox is bringing on a bankruptcy attorney from Sheppard Mullin as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.