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Discipline


'Kangaroo Court' Remark Boomerangs

Feb. 3, 2007
By Laura Ernden

SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate justice is eating crow over a kangaroo court remark. ...


Labor/Employment


Making Mileage

Feb. 3, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Leonid M. Zilberman - Like other issues in employment law, the question of how, and how much, to reimbu...


Labor/Employment


A nonequity partner in a law firm is an employee and therefore entitled to unemployment benefits, a state administrative judge...


Litigation


SANTA ANA - In December 2003, President Bush signed a law to help consumers protect their credit reports. ...


Discipline


9th Circuit Finds Fault With Lawyers

Feb. 3, 2007
By John Roemer

California lawyers who allegedly fouled up their clients' cases took a beating from federal appellate judges Thursday, but not...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers at Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott were shocked this week to learn that Managing Partner Scott P. ...


Technology & Science


Jury Awards Tech Firm $75 Million

Feb. 3, 2007
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - A federal jury has awarded a Fremont-based technology company $74.7 million in damages after concluding that a comp...


Judicial Profile


SAN DIEGO - On the desk of Commissioner Pennie M. Carlos is a bulging yellow folder filled with sad life histories, written by...


Judges and Judiciary


Nonlawyers Compete in World of Mediation

Feb. 2, 2007
By Susan Mcraen

George Smith, a former human resources executive, who switched careers five years ago, is among a growing number of nonlawyer ...


Criminal


Nightmare Deposition Packs the Heat

Feb. 2, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - We've all had them -- the depositions from the dark side. But what if your incoherent client sh...


Government


A deputy attorney general who waged a protracted battle with the state over his firing - eventually winning seven years of bac...


Judges and Judiciary


Judging Interest

Feb. 2, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert Harrison - It's simple interest, but a Superior Court commissioner writes that the calculations aren'...


Law Practice


Disciplinary Board Alumna Loved Piano

Feb. 2, 2007
By Alexa Hylandn

LOS ANGELES - Services will be held Saturday for Ann King Cooper, one of the first nonattorney members of the State Bar Discip...


Environmental


EPA Flops With Legal Flip

Feb. 2, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Jason C. Rylander and Michael P. Senatore - The Supreme Court should reverse the EPA's recent position that ...


Securities


Feds File New Deal in Milberg Case

Feb. 2, 2007
By Gabe Friedmann

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles filed a new plea agreement Wednesday with Steven G. Cooperman, a convicted fe...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - The question of who is responsible for the violent deaths of protesters and villagers living near Nigerian oil...


Government


Group Sues U.S. Over Soldiers' Blogs

Feb. 2, 2007
By Andrew Harmonn

An Internet watchdog group has sued the Defense Department after government officials ignored the group's requests for informa...


Judicial Profile


Temper Tamer

Feb. 2, 2007
By Dennis Opatrny

FAIRFIELD - In the sometimes incendiary world of family law court, where Michael Mattice presides over a calendar of divorce, ...


Government


Putting Teeth Into State Prison Oversight

Feb. 1, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

Two years after a federal judge threatened to take control of California's prisons, a team of attorneys assigned to improve th...


Top 40 Under 40


20 under 40

Feb. 1, 2007
By Riley Guerin

Watch out veteran lawyers -- California's top young lawyers are playing key roles in mega-mergers, high-stakes litigation and ...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - National powerhouse firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius successfully has fended off conflict-of-interest charges ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Openly Gay Man Will Lead Bar Group

Feb. 1, 2007
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel W. Burkhardt has been named the new executive director of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He is t...


Litigation


Fabric-Design Firm Sues Forever 21

Feb. 1, 2007
By Max Follmer

LOS ANGELES - Women's-clothing retailer Forever 21 was hit with a copyright-infringement suit Tuesday by a Fashion District fa...


Intellectual Property


Underdogs Make Their Marks

Feb. 1, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Alan I. Cyrlin - The 9th Circuit's 2006 trademark decisions show that the little guy still may have a chance...


Criminal


Open Sentence

Feb. 1, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Michael C. McMahon - A Ventura public defender suggests some legislative fixes to California's sentencing sy...


Entertainment & Sports


Korduner Ready for Closeup as GC of DGA

Feb. 1, 2007
By Rebecca Beyer

LOS ANGELES - After two stints as associate general counsel at the Directors Guild of America, David Korduner was promoted Tue...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


SAN FRANCISCO - Talk about thinking globally and acting locally. ...


Immigration


LOS ANGELES - One of the longest-running and most controversial immigration cases in U.S. history came a step closer to ending...


Government


Top Lobbyist Loses Contract With Lawyers

Feb. 1, 2007
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Donald C. Green, one of the state's most experienced lobbyists, has lost his contract with the politically powerf...



Discipline Report - February 2007

Feb. 1, 2007
By Megan Kinneyn