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Firm Watch


Dreier Plans Expansion Into Sports Consulting

May 16, 2008
By Devan Mcclainen

The firm that represented New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte in Major League Baseball's steroid scandal is branching out t...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Work in Hollywood is slowing even without action by the Screen Actors Guild - and, as it turns out, the union may have no stom...


Securities


SEC Charges Broadcom Executives

May 16, 2008
By Gabe Friedmann

Federal regulators filed civil fraud charges Wednesday against two current and two former top executives of one of the largest...


Criminal


Pellicano, Co-Defendants Found Guilty

May 16, 2008
By Zack Vaneyckn

A federal jury convicted Anthony Pellicano and all four co-defendants Thursday on a host of crimes related to the private eye'...


California Supreme Court


The California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 today that it's unconstitutional for the state to exclude gays from marriage. ...


Appellate Practice


"Spam King" Sanford Wallace and his partner owe Santa Monica-based MySpace Inc. a record $230 million in damages after a feder...


Firm Watch


On the Move

May 15, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Centurion Mediation, a new mediation firm formed by a former litigator and a former bank executive, is up and running in Los A...


Judges and Judiciary


Management of Asbestos Claims Questioned

May 15, 2008
By David Houstonn

In August, Judge James Robertson II of San Francisco Superior Court began consolidating asbestos cases without a motion from a...


Top Women Lawyers


Top Women Litigators 2008

May 15, 2008
By Heidi Fikstadn

The Daily Journal's Top 75 tell what it takes to be a woman litigator in 2008. ...


Top Women Lawyers


Trial Lawyers Form Women's Caucus

May 15, 2008
By Rebecca Beyer

A veteran San Francisco litigator discusses the recent creation of the Consumer Attorneys of California's first women's caucus...


Litigation


Sacramento defense lawyer Robert Lorbeer fumes that disabled plaintiffs seem to make a fortune suing businesses for minor viol...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Though not rocket science, negotiation does require preparation, patience, street smarts and a sufficient degree of candor, wr...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A Court of a Different Color

May 15, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

It is not far-fetched to wonder whether the current Supreme Court would reach the same conclusion on interracial marriage as t...


Law Practice


Lawyer Appointed

May 15, 2008
By Linda Rapattoni

Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont, a lawyer, was named majority leader Tuesday of the California Assembly by new Assembly Speaker Kar...


Public Interest


Public Counsel will hold its annual William O. Douglas fundraising dinner tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel. ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


A Compound Problem

May 15, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

A Federal Circuit decision is casting a new hue on obviousness analysis for chemical compounds, writes Pauline Farmer-Koppenol...


Firm Watch


As Heller Ehrman's chairman prepares to move to New York in hopes of growing the East Coast offices, a prominent New York part...


Appellate Practice


Joey Bishop's live-in companion has sued two lawyers at Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble, Mallory & Natsis, as well as the fir...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


With no end in sight to the longtime legal standoff between HMOs and hospital physicians over billing practices, state officia...


Litigation


Prison Group Files Suit Over Call Center Bill

May 15, 2008
By Zack Vaneyckn

The U.S. government has sued an infomercial impresario for allegedly welshing on a deal to have federal inmates staff his call...


Judicial Profile


Ready for More

May 15, 2008
By Peter Matuszakn

Torrance Judge Eric C. Taylor is satisfied in trial court but colleagues say the 45-year-old jurist would make an excellent ch...


Top Women Lawyers


Q&A

May 14, 2008
By Anat Rubinn

In their own words, the honorees offer their views on how far women have come in the law profession - and how far they have ...


Firm Watch


On the Move

May 14, 2008
By Maya Meinert And Rebecca U. Cho

Jordan Yospe, former general counsel for Mark Burnett Productions and founder of The Brand-Aide Entertainment Group, has joine...


California Supreme Court


Prosecutors can't be booted off a case just for pursuing a book or movie project inspired by true crime, the California Suprem...


Judicial Profile


Frontier Jurist

May 14, 2008
By Nicolas Taborekn

As supervising judge for the remote Lancaster court, Thomas R. White deals with the challenging gang trials and prisoner cases...


Litigation


Farm workers who sued claiming they were required to taste unwashed, pesticide-laden grapes for sweetness and were denied meal...


U.S. Supreme Court


Tobacco Price-Fixing Argument Fails

May 14, 2008
By Brent Kendall

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an antitrust appeal by a California smoker who argued that cigarette prices were sky...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Giving Notice

May 14, 2008
By Sara Libbyn

Some insurers are now seeking to use the technical measure of giving precautionary notice as a basis to assert the prior notic...


Firm Watch


DLA Piper Gains Another Heller Partner

May 14, 2008
By Jonathan Vaniann

DLA Piper's San Diego office has gained another partner from Heller Ehrman. Craig Andrews, the former managing partner of Hell...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Floyd Landis is famous for his speed in time trials, but when the world-renowned cyclist found himself in arbitration fighting...