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Litigation


A former San Diego Chargers linebacker, who contends that his football career was ended when he was shot by an off-duty police...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


The state's largest for-profit health insurer has agreed to pay $11.8 million to California hospitals for unpaid medical bills...


Law Practice


Out-of-state law firms remain keenly interested in acquiring or merging with California firms, consultants say. But statistics...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Good for the Planet, or Good for Business?

Jul. 10, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A rising tide of consumer disgust with "greenwashing" - false, deceptive or simply meaningless environmental marketing claims ...


Judges and Judiciary


Dealing With the Dolls and Death Docket

Jul. 10, 2008
By Jim Adamekn

U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson of Riverside is presiding over two high-profile cases, the business dispute over who own...


Judges and Judiciary


Superior Court officials are investigating how a former family law commissioner piled up 31 undecided cases before retiring, c...


Law Practice


Prison officials routinely deny crucial testing and treatments to the thousands of inmates who are infected with the hepatitis...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Danger Zones

Jul. 10, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

In creating "free speech zones" where protestors are confined to a particular, often isolated location, the government is miss...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Rather than eliminate subject tests, UC schools should work with high schools to make sure that qualified students understand ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Jul. 9, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Seyfarth Shaw grabs DLA Piper's labor and employment chair.


Law Practice


Howrey attorney Daniel Shvodian was on the legal team that seized on the Supreme Court’s “obviousness” test for patents to cha...


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...