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Firm Watch


Industry Watch

Jul. 30, 2007
By Dan Schechnern

On the Move


Firm Watch


Industry Watch

Jul. 30, 2007
By Dan Schechnern

With Honors


Judicial Profile


Road Warrior

Jul. 29, 2007
By Pat Alston

Studying up on a traffic offense he incurred as a teenager put Judge Greg Jones in the driver's seat for a career in law. ...


Judges and Judiciary


In a setback for law enforcement in at least 28 cities, a divided California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that police depar...


Insites


EARNINGS

Jul. 28, 2007
By Kari Hamanakan

CHICAGO - The second-quarter report for Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. showed net income of $77.9 million and year-to-date net income...


Law Practice


SAN BERNARDINO - A Superior Court jury has ordered a Catholic nun and her Indiana order to pay a Redlands woman $3.2 million f...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Focus Column - By Elizabeth Lampert - Learning the art of promoting your legal work in the media can lead to a business windfa...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Domestic Partnership: Not Enough

Jul. 28, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Roberta Bennett and David Gamblin - It will take nothing short of gay marriage to create full equality for s...


SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signaled Thursday to Republican legislators that they should not stall the state bu...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Patently Proved

Jul. 28, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - Virginia DeMarchi - Long-standing trends in when the holder of an infringed patent can obtain an injunction are...


Law Practice


SANTA ANA - A Nobel Prize-winning economist will join the Chapman University School of Law faculty in January, the school anno...


Arbitrator Profile


LOS ANGELES - It's hard to imagine Alan G. Saler has a penchant for candy. Despite casting a lean profile, Saler always keeps...


Litigation


Brocade Prosecutors, Defense Offer Closings

Jul. 28, 2007
By Craig Anderson

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor said Thursday the criminal backdating case against former Brocade Communications Systems ...


Verdicts


Six years ago, Bel Air residents Ned and Marcia Goldstein thought they had a run-of-the-mill boundary dispute when neighbor Cy...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Avoiding Wage-and-Hour Risks

Jul. 28, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Law firms can't afford to overlook the morass of California's employment laws and ...


Law Practice


Foster Care Policy Unfair, Groups Say

Jul. 28, 2007
By Alexa Hylandn

Three nonprofit advocacy groups are claiming the California Department of Social Services' policy requiring foster children to...


Law Practice


Funds From Pretexting Will Buy Equipment

Jul. 28, 2007
By David Houstonn

SACRAMENTO - Some of the $13.5 million the state got in the settlement of its pretexting suit against Hewlett-Packard will be ...


Law Practice


The legal landscape in Texas could be in for yet another big change, should merger talks between Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Pr...


Law Practice


U.S. Judge Tosses City's Anti-Immigrant Law

Jul. 28, 2007
By Sandra Hernandezn

A federal judge's decision Thursday striking down a local anti-immigrant law in Pennsylvania likely will have a ripple effect ...


Law Practice


Independent Counsel Rears Its Head

Jul. 28, 2007
By Hurley

The office of independent counsel - made famous a decade ago by President Clinton prosecutor-in-chief Kenneth Starr - could be...


Law Practice


Court Spares Murder Convict From Death

Jul. 28, 2007
By Laura Ernden

Longtime death-row prisoner James Hardy might not be a killer, but he still deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison, ...


Law Practice


Jury Orders Home to Pay $12.5 Million

Jul. 27, 2007
By Sandra Hernandezn

LOS ANGELES - A Pomona jury ordered a residential care facility to pay $12.5 million to three men who said they were sexually ...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


A pair of new laws requiring hospitals to report errors by physicians and administrators could cause a spike in medical-malpra...


Insites


DESIGN

Jul. 27, 2007
By Kari Hamanakan

SANTA MONICA - WWCOT and Booker Gery Architects merged and as a result, Booker Gery's Modesto office will operate under the WW...


SAN FRANCISCO - A former Department of Labor employee who investigated claims of workplace discrimination says she has found a...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Not Just Money

Jul. 27, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - Stacey D. Pacelli - For retaining associates, quality of life may prove to be more important than quantity of p...


Law Practice


Judge Tosses All KPMG Shareholder Claims

Jul. 27, 2007
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed all claims against KPMG in a derivative-shareholder lawsuit against Vit...


Law Practice


Rocking Out on Behalf of Bet Tzedek

Jul. 27, 2007
By Max Follmer

LOS ANGELES - More than 3,000 Southern California attorneys are expected to pack the former site of the Warner Bros. Studios i...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Staving Off Misconduct

Jul. 27, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - Health Care Law - As health care professionals know all too well, health care is provided in the context of a c...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Motorist Damages

Jul. 27, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - Stephen P. Robinson - Two recent auto-insurance cases demonstrate deeply flawed jurisprudence. ...