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Forum (Forum & Focus)


Tax reform should include a simplification of the process, so everyone can choose a vastly less complicated system with only t...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Winning Over the Jury: An Exact Science?

Oct. 1, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A new revolution in trying cases is brewing: cognitive science, writes Robert D Brain.


Law Practice


Web Exclusive - Starting today, San Francisco smokers won't find their cigarettes at Walgreens or any other drug store. They c...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


When a call to a credit card company is answered by a worker in India, most consumers no longer bat an eye. Companies have lon...


Law Practice


Theodora Oringher Expands

Sep. 30, 2008
By Pat Broderick

Web Exclusive - The mid-size firm that represented the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and White House intern Monica Lewinsky is...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Web Exclusive - A bill that would have increased funding for community mediation programs by $5 million has fallen victim to t...


Litigation


From the Desert, Lawyer Rises as Fighter for the Polar Bear

Sep. 30, 2008
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win

Joshua Tree lawyer Kassie Siegel has emerged as the face of the successful effort to get the polar bear listed as a threatened...


Environmental


Congress OKs Scaled Down IP Enforcement

Sep. 30, 2008
By Alexia Garamfalvin

Entertainment industry officials Monday hailed the passage of a scaled-down bill that will add an intellectual property enforc...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Schoolhouse Crock

Sep. 30, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Protecting political speech is crucial to our democracy, even when such speech occurs inside of a schoolyard, writes Taylor An...


Judges and Judiciary


Bill Vetoed For Civil Court Interpreters

Sep. 30, 2008
By Cortney Fieldingn

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have provided interpreters for high-priority civil cases in Los Angele...


Law Practice


Pillsbury Snags Thelen's 20-Lawyer China Practice

Sep. 30, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman swooped up Thelen's China practice, taking 20 attorneys from the San Francisco-based firm, Pil...


Law Practice


Judge Dodged Recall but Not Watchdog Agency

Sep. 30, 2008
By Amy Yarbroughn

Sacramento Judge Peter J. McBrien was recently the subject of a recall effort led by angry litigants. Now, he's in trouble wit...


Litigation


With opening statements barely a week away, famed Los Angeles litigator Thomas J. Nolan of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Performance Review

Sep. 30, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

In rapid succession, with two recent decisions, the California Supreme Court has reshaped the legal landscape for arbitrations...


Law Practice


Chief Justice Warns Judiciary to Tighten Its Belt

Sep. 30, 2008
By Amy Yarbroughn

Despite the successful passage of a bond measure to fix California aging courthouses, Chief Justice Ronald M. George predicts ...


Law Practice


Web Exclusive - The Conference of Delegates voted on a wide variety of issues at this year's State Bar meeting; the subjects o...


Law Practice


Facebook ended months of speculation about who would lead its legal team by hiring a Kirkland & Ellis partner in Washingto...


Law Practice


Special Counsel Will Investigate DOJ Dismissals

Sep. 30, 2008
By Lawrence Hurleyn

The fallout from the firing of several U.S. attorneys almost two years ago is in no danger of dissipating after the Justice De...


Law Practice


Eco Buildings Could Spell Green for Lawyers

Sep. 29, 2008
By Fiona Smith

“It’s really a big game of catch up for lawyers that haven’t been following the green building trend,” said Donald Simon, an e...


Law Practice


O'Brien Jumps In

Sep. 29, 2008
By Alan Mittelstaedtn

U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said he will personally prosecute the Missouri woman accused of creating a fictitious MySpace ...


Law Practice


Senate Confirms San Diego Judge

Sep. 29, 2008
By Robert Iafolla

Even as negotiations over the proposed $700 billion bailout package consumed much of the oxygen on Capitol Hill Friday, the Se...


Media


Confusing Patchwork of Laws Governs Fashion

Sep. 29, 2008
By Amanda Becker

An uptick in patent applications for garments and a spate of lawsuits over fabric copyrights are a sign that serving these gar...


Law Practice


In what he described as one of the most serious cases of elder fraud in the state’s history, a Superior Court judge Friday sen...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Ganging Up On Criminals

Sep. 29, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Gang injunctions are a valuable tool used by law enforcement in combating criminal street gangs, writes Max B. Shiner.


Law Practice


Heller Prepares For Orderly 'Wind Down'

Sep. 29, 2008
By Jill Redhage

Heller Ehrman's "wind-down" began Friday as partners cast electronic votes on the policy committee's proposal for how the firm...


Law Practice


A federal appellate panel has tossed six of 14 counts on which former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Ivanovich Lazarenko was c...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Messing With a Time-Tested Method

Sep. 29, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Maybe the many thousands who have voluntarily chosen arbitration over three millennia knew something our legislators don’t, wr...


Immigration


Report Shows Asylum Decisions Vary Wildly

Sep. 29, 2008
By Sandra Hernandezn

A long-awaited government report released this month found substantial disparities exist in the rate at which immigration judg...


Forum (Forum & Focus)


Whatever the Justice Department decides about a possible Google-Yahoo deal, its analysis should be revealed so that advertiser...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Self Study Test

Sep. 29, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli