Transactions
Buyers See More Transactions Requiring Expensive Reverse Breakup Fees
By Jason Songn
Deals Column - By Jason Song - Five hundred million dollars is a lot of money, even for Microsoft Corp. But that's the amoun...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
S.F. District Attorney Has Improved Office's Work on Homicides
By Don Debenedictisn
Letter to the Editor - Since taking office, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has worked to rebuild and strengthen...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The ability to seek fees from one’s spouse in a family-law case encourages fees to escalat...
Focus Column - By Steven L. Feldman, Steven L. Crane and Sasha N. Brower - The 9th Circuit has set new parameters for how coun...
Richard I. Roemer, a prominent civil lawyer who founded a chapter of the American Inns of Court in Riverside County, died Frid...
Labor/Employment
Panel Revives Woman's Claim of 'Reverse' Religious Discrimination
By Amelia Hansen
A federal appeals court Tuesday reinstated an employment-discrimination lawsuit brought by a woman who claims she was passed o...
Plaintiffs’ attorney Christopher Dolan is known as a “street fighter” and isn’t afraid to take long-shot cases. A recent $61 m...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In 5-4 Vote, Court Tosses Sex-Bias Case
By Keith Bowersn
WASHINGTON - A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that employees cannot use a landmark civil rights law to sue ov...
The New Lawyer Supplement
Thinking Like a Lawyer - Q&A with Stanford Law Dean
By Drew Combsn
I. Did Lois violate the "no-assignment" provision?
Whether the Jury Can Find Dan Guilty of First-Degree Murder Traditionally, murder is proved when the defendant is the actual ...
Per your instructions, I have drafted the following objective memorandum analyzing whether the noncompetition clause contained...
The Association of Retailers (AOR) is considering filing a complaint for injunctive relief against City in federal District Co...
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...
I. Rita and Fred's personal liability to Landlord
During negotiations for Plaintiff Phenom to purchase a license to use Defendant Jasmine's technology, Phenom Executive Vice Pr...
Wynn is a surviving spouse of Tom. Although Tom, by a valid, typewritten and witnessed will in 2001, left his shares of Beta C...
1. Officer Will's Testimony Logical Relevancy Logical relevancy refers to evidence having a tendency in reason to prove or d...
Industry Watch - By Max Follmer - LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb has snagged Linda Bernhardt, a former deputy mayor of Los Ange...
LOS ANGELES - Eliot G. Disner drew widespread attention for his legal fight against the nation's largest bar-review provider. ...
Focus Column – By Rachael Samberg and Brian W. Carver – Wielding the hammer of free speech, the 9th Circuit used a case brough...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's intellectually-property practice is growing, ...
Forum Column — By Michael Waterstone — We should applaud the Supreme Court’s ruling letting parents represent their disabled c...
Technology & Science
Bills Would Restrict Implanting of Computer Chips in People
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - The idea of imbedding a tiny tracking device beneath the skin was once the stuff of futuristic novels and paranoi...
Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Almost two decades ago, Steven Brower moved to Orange County to establish a practice in the...
LOS ANGELES - The family of a boy whose spine was severed in an automobile accident has fired the attorney who won them a $45 ...
Government
State High Court Will Rule on Banning Imported Goods Made From Kangaroos
By Dennis Pfaffn
The state Supreme Court will consider whether a state law banning imports of goods made from certain exotic animals should be ...
LOS ANGELES - Companies who use coupons to settle massive consumer fraud class actions are having to work a little harder thes...
A group of American attorneys is headed to London this week to train Sudanese lawyers representing victims of the violence in ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Passing the California Bar Exam: Successful Test Takers Create Their Own Three-Scream Circus
By Alexa Hylandn
Robert Hull was among the 1,900 people who passed the February bar exam. Just 36.8 percent of the 5,167 successfully took the ...