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Alternative Dispute Resolution


The Conference of Delegates of California Bar Associations is expected this month to issue a recommendation endorsing a resolu...


Education


Rather than confusing his eighth-grade students with abstractions about interpreting the Bill of Rights, a history teacher at ...



Focus (Forum & Focus)


Lawyers, Face the Music

Jul. 9, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Lawyers should suck it up and face the music: Rock stars have much cooler jobs, writes Nora Quinn. - Forum Column ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Out of Commission

Jul. 9, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Finally, the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, following a comprehensive four-year study, agrees wi...



Immigration


Report on Detainees Urges Improved Access, Care

Jul. 9, 2008
By Sandra Hernandezn

A new federal report has found immigration officials were not to blame for the deaths of two women held in detention centers, ...


Law Practice


A judge rebuffing shareholders' attempts to block approval of Santa Monica video game publisher Activision Inc.'s proposed $18...



Focus (Forum & Focus)


China's Tangled Web

Jul. 9, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The People's Republic of China is an attractive target market for foreign vendors that sell goods and services over the Intern...


Government


Although Congress is likely this week to grant retroactive immunity to phone companies that cooperated with the Bush administr...



Criminal


Christensen's Team Trying to Exclude Tapes

Jul. 9, 2008
By Zack Vaneyckn

During the time federal prosecutors say Anthony Pellicano was conducting wiretaps on orders from Terry N. Christensen, the not...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Jul. 8, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Steven M. Hanle and Jennifer A. Trusso have joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Orange County office as partners ...



Corporate Counsel


PG&E Strategy Aims to Conserve Resources

Jul. 8, 2008
By Devan Mcclainen

In a Q&A, PG&E General Counsel Hyun Park says, "At the end of the day you look at it from the perspective of what's mo...


Law Practice


Seeking Top 100 Nominations

Jul. 8, 2008
By Aris Davoudiann

From the ports to the desert to the ocean, this year the Daily Journal is focusing its Top 100 on California's legal leaders, ...



Healthcare/Hospital Law


A labyrinth with no end is how one father described the dizzying process parents must maneuver to secure medical treatments fo...


A well-known court-system expert and longtime court executive in Northern California will become the Orange County Superior Co...



Focus (Forum & Focus)


Benefits of the Doubted

Jul. 8, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A recent Supreme Court decision rejects the notion that all benefit litigation involving insured plans should be reviewed de n...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Assembly OKs State Bar Dues Increase

Jul. 8, 2008
By Amy Yarbroughn

A bill that would tack $10 on to the yearly dues the state's lawyers pay is headed for the governor's desk. ...



Administrative/Regulatory


A federal judge in San Francisco dealt a blow to the Bush administration when he ruled last week that the state secrets privil...


Government


The latest financial disclosures filed by candidates vying to replace City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo in 2009 will not be offic...



Intellectual Property


Postage Firm Stamps Out Patent Claim

Jul. 8, 2008
By Noah Barronn

Internet-based postage seller Stamps.com has licked a patent infringement suit lodged by the inventor of several digital posta...


Judicial Profile


Law at First Sight

Jul. 8, 2008
By Nicolas Taborekn

Through her husband-to-be, journalist-in-training Elizabeth Feffer became enamored with the legal profession. She changed care...



Healthcare/Hospital Law


This month, California will begin implementing a statewide plan to desegregate housing at some 30 prisons. The move is part of...


Judicial Profile


Right on Point

Jul. 4, 2008
By Pat Broderick

Judge Edward P. Allard III was hesitant about taking on a family law assignment, but his military background and decades as a ...



Law Practice


Ramzi Abadou was a dreadlocked college graduate when he landed his first job as a document clerk at a law firm. Fifteen years ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


When clients become difficult during the discovery process, lawyers must get creative, write Lynn Duryee and Matthew N. White ...



Focus (Forum & Focus)


'Baby' WARN Act Might Be Growing Up

Jul. 4, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The state Legislature is considering AB 1989, which will expand California's WARN law if passed, writes D. Gregory Valenza - E...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


As American as Tacos and Samosas

Jul. 4, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

We have the chance now to remake our immigration policy in the modern era by grappling honestly with the fact that the America...



Focus (Forum & Focus)


When Winning Is Losing

Jul. 4, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The presence or absence of providing for the recovery of attorney fees by the prevailing party will alter the dynamics of a me...


Arbitrator Profile


World-Wandering Neutral Feels at Home Stateside

Jul. 4, 2008
By Rebecca U. Cho

After practicing in Europe, Asia and Australia, independent mediator Charles B. Parselle makes a home in Southern California. ...



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


Anti-Abortion Group's Rights Violated, Panel Says

Jul. 4, 2008
By Cortney Fieldingn

Members of the anti-abortion group were forced to remove a mobile layout of enlarged, early-term aborted fetus photos near a R...


Government


A federal judge dealt a blow to the Bush administration late Wednesday, ruling that the state secrets privilege does not bar a...