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Focus (Forum & Focus)


Energizing Everything Under the Sun

Aug. 22, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The challenge for all levels of government is to figure out how to promote the development of solar energy in a responsible ma...


Web Exclusive - A federal appeals court stepped into a long-running fight between environmentalists and the state over air qua...


Law Practice


Web Exclusive - In a first-of-its kind ruling, a federal judge in San Jose says the U.S. government's selective targeting of m...


Litigation


The lead attorney for Mattel urged a federal jury Wednesday to force a competitor to pay his client nearly $2 billion in damag...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


The sacrifices of a 1970s farmworker eventually established a procedure that has been used to protect the rights of political ...


Law Practice


Boycott Disrupts Law School Event

Aug. 22, 2008
By Pat Broderick

A boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt has spurred the Association of American Law Schools to move all of its annual conferen...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Fixing Our Immigration Courts: Child's Play?

Aug. 22, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

If the Justice Department won’t clean up its own immigration mess, then lawyers zealously representing aggrieved immigration c...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Aug. 21, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Four Thelen Reid project finance partners have joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff in San Francisco.


Judicial Profile


The Survivor

Aug. 21, 2008
By Noah Barronn

Whether he's restoring Civil War rifles or rebuilding his home from the ashes of an accidental fire, Judge Wayne R. Parrish br...


For the second time in less than a year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rebuked a prominent Los Angeles immigration...


Law Practice


An Unlikely Alliance of Guns and Gay Rights

Aug. 21, 2008
By Rebecca Beyer

Noemi Robinson is a member of the Pink Pistols, a gay advocacy group for guns as self-defense. She has children and keeps her ...


Litigation


Middle-aged and elderly television writers who accused studios and talent agencies of age discrimination have reached the firs...


State Bar & Bar Associations


A former San Jose mayor, an assemblywoman and the general counsel for a Silicon Valley tech giant all came to the defense of e...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


SAFETY First

Aug. 21, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The SAFETY Act represents a rare opportunity to minimize or eliminate the potentially devastating liability associated with te...


Law Practice


Wiretap Expert Unsure If Tapes Were Doctored

Aug. 21, 2008
By Alan Mittelstaedtn

A renowned forensic audio expert testified Tuesday that he could not determine if the recorded conversations between attorney ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A Different Kind of Hero

Aug. 21, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The attorneys who stood up to the government's appalling military commissions should be applauded for taking on great risk to ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A state appellate court was right to recognize that no child should have wait for the day when his or her birth father is reha...


Law Practice


Government Supports Bid for Porn Retrial

Aug. 21, 2008
By Nicolas Taborekn

Prosecutors have opposed a double jeopardy claim by accused pornographer Ira Isaacs, whose federal obscenity case resulted in...


Criminal


Lawyer Faces Child Pornography Charges

Aug. 21, 2008
By Jason W. Armstrong

Web Exclusive - A San Bernardino attorney has been swept up in a federal child pornography investigation that netted 55 men, t...


Law Practice


Web Exclusive - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sidetracked a city controller's investigation last week, but he may...


Law Practice


Hospitals Kept Tainted Drug On Shelves

Aug. 21, 2008
By Evan George

More than 90 hospitals throughout California failed to obey a recall and remove tainted vials of the blood-thinning drug hepar...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Aug. 20, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

Six attorneys were elected to partnership at Loeb & Loeb in its New York and Los Angeles offices.


Appellate Practice


In June, Joseph R. Re became president of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. That is the professional group for lawyers who ...


Judicial Profile


Straying From the Herd

Aug. 20, 2008
By Pat Broderick

Though she comes from a long line of sheepherders, San Diego County Judge Eugenia Eyherabide decided to follow a lone uncle ...


Law Practice


“The Supreme Court has spoken loud and clear and full that equal services are for everyone in California,” said Lamda Legal la...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Rewarding the Head of the Class

Aug. 20, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Class representatives deserve extra compensation for bearing burdens not shared by the other class members; it is only fair th...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Slow Motions

Aug. 20, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

The clear lesson of a recent 9th Circuit case is to file notices of appeal by hand and not to rely on the mail, write Richard ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Lawyers doing business in China should brush up on the cultural intracacies that play a huge role in business transactions the...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Superior Court Judge Alexander H. Williams III is about to take his first job ever in the private sector. ...


Law Practice


A Mexican man, imprisoned for a year when a vehicle he bought from the U.S. government was found loaded with marijuana, has be...