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Corporate


Bill Would Limit Sharing Customer Data

Nov. 26, 2007
By Hurley

WASHINGTON - Yahoo Inc. may have settled litigation alleging that the Internet company provided the Chinese government with pr...


Law Practice


New Bar Group Leader Will Stress Civility

Nov. 26, 2007
By Martin Bergn

Heather L. Rosing plans to push professionalism and civility when she takes the helm of the San Diego County Bar Association o...


Technology & Science


Publishing Treatises on Web

Nov. 23, 2007
By Martin Bergn

The August 2006 publication of "The Path of Constitutional Law," by Charles Kelso and his son, appears to be the first compreh...


Law Practice


In a case closely watched by California cities, the American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court to ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


In the Line of Fire

Nov. 23, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Melody Mosley and Craig Simon - Victims of the recent California wildfires can take heart in a number of sta...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Wage-and-Hour Onslaught

Nov. 23, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Employment Column - By Mandana Massoumi and Sarah Maier - The recent explosion in employment law suits makes this survey of re...


Verdicts


Defect-Case Mediator Looks for 'Global Picture'

Nov. 23, 2007
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Mediator Ross R. Hart has the difficult task of keeping his head when dealing with 40 parties - or more - in construction-defe...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By Julie Stewart and Molly Gill - The U.S. Sentencing Commission's decision to decrease disparities between cra...


State Bar & Bar Associations


New President Helps Fill Void for Asian-American Lawyers

Nov. 23, 2007
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Helen B. Kim, a securities and commercial litigation partner in Baker Hostetler's Los Angeles office, has become the new presi...


Law Practice


Firms Anticipate Upswing in Bankruptcy Cases

Nov. 23, 2007
By Jason Songn

After a long lull in Chapter 11 work amid the mergers and acquisitions boom of the last several years, law firms are starting ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Safety 'Net

Nov. 23, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Leslie Harris and Jim Dempsey - A recent Rio de Janeiro conference on governmental control of the Internet r...


Labor/Employment


Fundraiser Acknowledges Underpayments

Nov. 23, 2007
By Dennis Pfaffn

A company that raises money for the Democratic National Committee and other liberal political groups has acknowledged that it ...


Labor/Employment


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide the legality of a California law that forbids privat...


Education


Learning Law Online: A Nontraditional Route

Nov. 21, 2007
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

For students like Robert Uyeda, online law schools are sometimes the best option. These schools offer the flexibility that man...


Law Practice


Two Jurists Tapped for Ethics Group

Nov. 21, 2007
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - Two representatives of the California Judges Association will be part of an advisory group responsible for set...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Expand Sexual-Harassment Training

Nov. 21, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Mary Dollarhide - California employers who provide sexual-harassment training only to supervisors are in for...


Law Practice


Judge for Clergy Cases Will Retire

Nov. 21, 2007
By Sandra Hernandezn

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles judge who oversaw the clergy abuse litigation against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Ange...


State Bar & Bar Associations


SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers may have noticed something different in the State Bar fee statements that have been arriving in their ...


Law Practice


Today marks the five-year anniversary of the initial raid on private investigator Anthony Pellicano's offices, which produced ...


Civil Rights


High Court to Consider D.C. Handgun Ban

Nov. 21, 2007
By kristinakg@kgmllp.com

WASHINGTON - Setting up the biggest gun-rights case in nearly 70 years, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide the co...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Confronting Confrontation

Nov. 21, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Greg May - A new 9th Circuit ruling creates a confusing standard for when Confrontation Clause challenges ca...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Diversity Column - By Ann I. Park - The legal profession is the least-diverse employment field in the country. Remedying this ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


The Lawyers of Pakistan

Nov. 21, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By John A. Hall - The attorneys jailed during Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff's crackdown are the collea...


Education


SANTA ANA - Occidental College last year trumpeted the selection of Susan Westerberg Prager, the former UCLA law dean, as its ...


The New Lawyer Supplement


Practice Questions and Performance Tests

Nov. 21, 2007
By David Houstonn


The New Lawyer Supplement


Transparency As Avocacy

Nov. 20, 2007
By David Houstonn

Stanford law students Andrew Bruck and Andrew Canter tell new lawyers what’s really going on behind the guilded doors of big l...


The New Lawyer Supplement


Embedding Novice Law-Firm Attorneys

Nov. 20, 2007
By Alexa Hylandn

Big law firms turn to city attorneys and district attorneys for help teaching litigation associates how to try a case


The New Lawyer Supplement


Practice Questions and Performance Tests

Nov. 20, 2007
By Heidi Fikstadn

For those of you who didn't pass the bar, there's always next time. Here experts have written sample answers to the six practi...


The New Lawyer Supplement


The Final Countdown

Nov. 20, 2007
By David Houstonn

Number of people who took the July 2007 exam8,151


The New Lawyer Supplement


Avoiding Complaints

Nov. 20, 2007
By David Houstonn

In my experience, relatively few attorneys are dishonest or intentionally engage in misconduct warranting discipline.