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Firm Watch


On the Move

Jun. 11, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

State Bar officials have named Edward J. McIntyre, a partner with San Diego's Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith to its Commi...


Law Practice


Google Lawyer Goes to Technology Nonprofit

Jun. 11, 2008
By Craig Andersonn

Michael Kwun, who was hired four years ago as Google Inc.'s first in-house litigator and had been the public face of its comba...


Judicial Profile


A New Challenge

Jun. 11, 2008
By Nicolas Taborekn

After a career as a civil lawyer, newly appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James A. Steele makes a smooth trans...


Law Practice


After a trial with several bizarre twists, a man who claimed Del Taco violated his disability rights has lost his suit seekin...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Lessons Learned?

Jun. 11, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

It is too soon to tell whether politicians, business people and lawyers will learn more from the current mortgage crisis than ...


Law Practice


Heller Helps Fight Welfare Cuts

Jun. 11, 2008
By Laura Ernden

Lawyers will go to court today to try to stop Alameda County from eliminating monthly welfare checks for more than half of the...


Law Practice


What a difference a week makes. In third place a day after the June 3 election, prosecutor Lane Liroff now appears to have se...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Stocks and (Marriage) Bonds

Jun. 11, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

While state property and family laws may treat married same-sex couples the same as married heterosexual couples, the federal ...


U.S. Supreme Court


Justices Concur With 9th Circuit On Job Bias Suit

Jun. 11, 2008
By Lawrence Hurleyn

The Equal Protection Clause does not allow public employees to make individualized claims of employment discrimination, the U....


Law Practice


High Court Will Revisit Tobacco Award

Jun. 11, 2008
By David Houstonn

Agreeing to hear an appeal by Philip Morris for the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would again take a look...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


For many parties in mediation and litigation matters, the perception of being treated fairly is more important than the actual...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


A California woman has won a rare victory in a debt arbitration from the National Arbitration Forum, an agency that has drawn ...


U.S. Supreme Court


Rejecting a patent holder's bid to collect multiple rounds of royalties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that ...


Appellate Practice


Taser Must Pay $6 Million In Man's Death

Jun. 11, 2008
By Noah Barronn

In the first court loss for Taser International, a federal jury in San Jose has awarded $6.2 million to the family of a Salina...


Firm Watch


On the Move

Jun. 10, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

McDermott brings on new partner from Latham & Watkins.


Insites


STAFFING

Jun. 10, 2008
By Carla Pinedan

LOS ANGELES - Former employees of the mortgage industry in Los Angeles County have an opportunity to receive job training and ...


Judicial Profile


Changing Lives

Jun. 10, 2008
By Fiona Smith

Judge Barbara Kronlund says juvenile court is the most important assignment she has had because you can affect a child's life ...


Judges and Judiciary


Six months in, Alex Kozinski has started strong as chief judge of the nation's biggest federal appellate court. ...


Appellate Practice


No vacancy. That was the welcome that powerhouse Los Angeles litigator John Quinn and his legal team received recently when th...


Government


Eight new members have been appointed to the Judicial Council, the policy making body for courts throughout the state. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


The Zen of Mentoring

Jun. 10, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

In the ideal interdependent mentoring relationship there exists mutual fulfillment, compassion, respect, open communication an...


9th Circuit judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt brought their left-right road-show to Beverly Hills Thursday night. The...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Mixed Reviews

Jun. 10, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A recent Supreme Court decision limits the ability of parties to contract to more expansive standards of review for arbitral a...


Firm Watch


From Politics To Academia to Gibson Dunn

Jun. 10, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

It's been decades since former Republican Congressman Thomas J. Campbell worked at a law firm, but come this summer he will be...


Firm Watch


Veteran IP Lawyers Form Boutique

Jun. 10, 2008
By Jill Redhage

Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is shuttering its Redwood Shores outpost at the end of the month. ...


Law Practice


Three lawyers in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office were laid off last week and more cuts might be coming in the wak...


Criminal


Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, who presided over Roman Polanski's 1977 prosecution and convic...


U.S. Supreme Court


The three U.S. Supreme Court justices whose stock holdings have forced them to recuse themselves from recent cases have each s...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


FTC Raises Heat on Intel With Probe

Jun. 10, 2008
By Craig Andersonn

Already accused by several foreign governments and its leading rival of antitrust violations, semiconductor giant Intel Corp. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Disciplinary Actions

Jun. 9, 2008
By Jim Adamekn

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...