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Law Practice


DOJ Backs Off Privilege Waiver Policy

Aug. 30, 2008
By Lawrence Hurleyn

Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip announced Thursday that the Justice Department would stop pressuring corporations to waive ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Online Privacy's Disappearing Act

Aug. 30, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A recent New York court order has kicked the door wide open for potential online invasions of privacy by allowing a company to...


Litigation


SANTA ANA - A federal judge once again has refused to throw out a $150 million malpractice suit against Irell & Manella - ...


Criminal


Juror Bounced From Wiretap Case

Aug. 30, 2008
By Alan Mittelstaedtn

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge took the rare step Thursday of dismissing a juror from the trial of attorney Terry N. Christense...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Mediator by Day and Jazz Musician by Night

Aug. 30, 2008
By Jill Redhage

Philip Diamond sets his own beat to march to as an independent neutral. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Addressing the underage drinking epidemic by enabling it would be akin to suggesting that we can solve the problem of speeding...


RIVERSIDE - Two brothers in their mid 20s will have to relinquish a Lamborghini and Ferrari that they bought with profits from...


Law Practice


Privacy Suit Ineligible for Damages

Aug. 30, 2008
By Jill Redhage

SAN FRANCISCO - Whether Americans can recover emotional distress damages against the government when it violates their privacy...


Large Firms


Health and Human Services Official Heads to Latham

Aug. 30, 2008
By Devan Mcclainen

Daniel Meron, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been tapped to co-chair Latham & Wa...


Environmental


Group Targets State Licensing Of Power Plant

Aug. 30, 2008
By Fiona Smith

Environmentalists have opened a new front in their battle to fight climate change in California by seeking to force the state ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Through an unfortunate loophole, Megan's Law, enacted to protect the public, can actually be used by sexual predators to secur...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A System At Its Breaking Point

Aug. 30, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Just as immigration judges are making Herculean efforts to keep an impossibly overburdened system on track, they are demoraliz...


Law Practice


Plantiffs' Lawyers Bring Big Issues to Vegas

Aug. 30, 2008
By Cortney Fieldingn

So 1,600 lawyers meet up in Las Vegas. No, it's not the beginning of a bad joke. It's the start of the 26th annual Consumer ...


Verdicts


Ex-Marine Acquitted in Iraq Deaths

Aug. 30, 2008
By Jason W. Armstrong

RIVERSIDE - After deliberating less than a day, a federal court jury Thursday found a former Marine not guilty of manslaughter...


Immigration


Juan P. Osuna, a former professor and editor, has been named chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals, ending speculation ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Aug. 29, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Jeffer Mangels adds a litigator as of counsel in Los Angeles.


Law Practice


When a federal judge issued sanctions and deprived Morrison & Foerster of attorneys' fees in a civil rights case won by tw...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Jet Flagged

Aug. 29, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A recent 9th Circuit case involving the government's No-Fly List emphasizes the need for balance between security and individu...


Law Practice


Judge Threatens Inquiring Lawyer

Aug. 29, 2008
By Alan Mittelstaedtn

An angry federal judge ripped into a defense lawyer Wednesday for using a court filing to request a response to rumors about h...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Review Session

Aug. 29, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

In a decision with potentially far-reaching implications, the California Supreme Court has found that parties to an arbitratio...


Law Practice


Christensen, Pellicano Now in Jury's Hands

Aug. 29, 2008
By Alan Mittelstaedtn

Jurors in the federal wiretapping conspiracy case against attorney Terry N. Christensen and private eye Anthony Pellicano bega...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Even the most disadvantaged citizens have a right to access our courts, especially when the state seeks to balance the budget ...


Litigation


In a bid to end further litigation in the Bratz doll fight, U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson on Wednesday barred new moti...


Criminal


Lawyers Offer No Defense in Marine's Trial

Aug. 29, 2008
By Jason W. Armstrong

A federal court jury began deliberating Wednesday in the unprecedented trial of a former Marine charged with killing several u...


Law Practice


As Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner deals with the impending departures of eight partners in New York, experts are divi...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Aug. 28, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Holland & Knight's San Francisco office has gained two public finance attorneys.


Law Practice


Suit Challenges S.F. Program for Homeless

Aug. 28, 2008
By Rebecca Beyer

A homeless assistance program that substitutes housing and social services for cash payouts discriminates against disabled peo...


Law Practice


Both Sides Highlight Tapes as Case Wraps

Aug. 28, 2008
By Alan Mittelstaedtn

Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers have battled for five weeks over what attorney Terry N. Christensen and sleuth Anthony...


Law Practice


Employment Cases Split California High Court

Aug. 28, 2008
By Laura Ernden

The justices of the California Supreme Court are a collegial bunch. But take a look at the employment cases alone, and you'll ...


Law Practice


Chief Justice Sees Virtue in Harmonious Court

Aug. 28, 2008
By Laura Ernden

It's no accident that the California Supreme Court has an unusually low rate of dissents. ...