Manufacturer's Motion to Dismiss
We represent Tanya and Mark Gross, children of the recently deceased prominent local businessman Claude Gross. As you are awar...
Large Firms
Teen Lawyer Shows No Signs of Growing Pains
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho
On Friday, when Kathleen Holtz received the good news that she had passed the California Bar Exam, she not only joined many of...
No more keggers. Socializing, once you start your legal career, is a whole other animal. The office holiday party or other bus...
Skadden Arps’ Jeff Cohen advises new lawyers how to better communicate inside the firm
1. IS THE COMMUNITY ENTITLED TO REIMBURSEMENT FOR: (A) THE CHILD SUPPORT? DISCUSS.
Contracts, Paula v. Sally
Technology & Science
Defendant Microsoft Wins Big Patent Suit in Plaintiffs' Haven
By Joe Mullinn
SAN FRANCISCO - Facing a jury for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas is supposed to strike fear into the hea...
Focus Column - By James C. Martin and Mani Sheik - Determining which rulings are appealable seems relatively straightforward. ...
Web Exclusive - Occidental College last year trumpeted the selection of Susan Westerbrook Prager, the former UCLA law dean, as...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
California Constitution Struck An Early Blow Against Injustices of Slavery
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Elaine Elinson - Years before the Civil War began, the Golden State gave one slave the freedom that Dred Sco...
OAKLAND - The story of one of the tech boom's biggest flameouts is ending in a federal courtroom where plaintiffs' attorneys a...
Environmental
Two Suits Seek to Protect Consumers From Toxic Chemicals
By Rebecca Beyer
Officials in the administration of Gov. Schwarzenegger charged with identifying cancer-causing chemicals are not doing their j...
The California Supreme Court on Monday unveiled a proposal to streamline the state's lengthy death-penalty appeals process by ...
SAN JOSE - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is losing its second big-name partner in as many months with the pending depar...
Former Bar Exam grader Vivian Dempsey unravels three new subjects on the exam
People v. Dan: Murder and Lesser-Included Offenses
Claim for rent
Should the court admit the evidence offered in items numbers (1) through (5), including the work order referred to in item num...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Are Law Schools Engaged In Consumer Fraud?
By David Houstonn
UCLA law professors Rick Sanders and Jane Yakowitz apply their affirmative action criticisms to the California Bar Exam
Per your request, I have prepared the following objective memorandum analyzing the legal and factual issues raised by Reston's...
Attorney James R. Robie says he's now entrenched in the diciest, most-eyebrow-raising legal fight he's ever waged on behalf of...
On the Move
Industry Watch - By Amy Yarbrough - Speaker Fabian Nunez has appointed a new public member to the state's judicial watchdog ag...
Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - The proliferation of waste and fraud in government contracts for the Iraq War underscores the...
Entertainment & Sports
Ruling Could Allow New Defendants in Suit Brought by Slain Rap Star’s Family
By Robertiafolla
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in the wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of slain rapper Christopher Wallace against ...
Industry Watch - By Anat Rubin - Recently retired state appellate-court Justice Earl Johnson will join the Western Center on L...
SAN JOSE - A professor publishes a study suggesting that some corporate executives may have gotten an advantage in transaction...
Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Folger Levin & Kahn's San Francisco office announced the addition of Bruce Yonehiro a...
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