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Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Suspension recommended for Photoshop-loving attorney

Sep. 20, 2014
By Don Debenedictisn

A lawyer who inserted pictures of herself into photos of celebrities and posted them on her law firm website should be suspend...


A portion of the Menlo Park office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is being remodeled to foster a more collaborative wor...


Government


Appellate practitioners are pressing state appellate justices to issue tentative opinions before oral arguments, reigniting an...


Arbitrator Profile


Robert A. Murray counts himself among a small cohort of professionals who do full-time neutral work in Sonoma County. ...


Litigation


Shrubbery to be sheared

Sep. 20, 2014
By Matt Hamilton

Browne Greene of Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP and his wife, Leana, must trim a 40-foot hedge at their oceanfront Santa Mo...


Law Practice


Courts near and far tire of incivility

Sep. 20, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

In recent years, judges and bar associations have begun to lose their patience with uncivil attorneys. By J. Randolph Evans, S...


Litigation


Divvying the litigants a dose of procedural whiplash, a court recently confessed it changed its mind regarding a legal matter ...


A judge ruled Thursday that Los Angeles County does not have to disclose its contract with the lawyer hired to carry out recom...


Entertainment & Sports


Film tax deal 'shot in arm', lawyers say

Sep. 20, 2014
By Matthew Blaken

Entertainment lawyers voiced confidence that the film and television tax credit bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Thursda...


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Sep. 19, 2014
By Seena Nikravan

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...


Proposition 47, which proposes reducing penalties for some drug and property theft crimes, has so far received less fanfare th...


Corporate Counsel


Kamin Kamali

Sep. 19, 2014
By Alex Shively

Chief Legal Counsel for Amidi Group of Companies Redwood City ...


Contracts


It has long been a practice among commercial litigators and their clients to settle with a defendant/borrower and allow a disc...


Perspective


It's time to repeal and replace the outdated ECPA

Sep. 19, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

Congress should repeal the ECPA before it reaches its 30th birthday, and replace it with a new privacy statute that reflects c...


Perspective


Fixing the dearth of women in M&A

Sep. 19, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

A wide gender gap persists in law firm M&A practices, despite substantial female enrollment in the law schools that supply...


Perspective


Alone, together in immigration court

Sep. 19, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Children and families have recently become a priority for the Obama administration. But not in the way one might expect. By Ro...


Intellectual Property


Federal judges across the country remain hesitant to shift fees to victors in patent disputes even though the U.S. Supreme Cou...


Community News


Alexander J. Wong, right, a partner with Jones, Clifford, Johnson, Dehner, Wong, Morrison, Sheppard & Bell LLP, received a...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Inbound deals from Europe help fuel merger boom

Sep. 19, 2014
By Salvador Mares

An influx of inbound deals from Europe has helped fuel a significant uptick in merger and acquisition activity this year, acco...


Officials at the troubled school say they have made up most of the missed payment and are devising options to restructure the ...


Litigation


An almond and cherry farm in the Central Valley has sued several oil companies alleging they are contaminating its groundwater...


Law Practice


OncoSec Medical Inc. announced Wednesday the hire of Merck & Co. Inc.'s senior patent counsel, Sheela Mohan-Peterson. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Linda E. Spiegel's goals include focusing on the concept of "low bono," in which novice lawyers counsel clients who cannot af...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


The Communications Decency Act does not shield a website owner from a negligence claim by an aspiring model who used the site ...


Constitutional Law


Neutral laws, unequally applied

Sep. 19, 2014
By Katharine Malonen

The case of Will Walters v. City of San Diego, currently pending before the 9th Circuit, provides a clear opportunity t...


Law Practice


Insolvency boutiques have noticed a decline in business, a trend that experts attribute to the nationwide decrease in bankrupt...


Mike Florio, a longtime public interest attorney turned regulator, said Wednesday he messed up in discussing which administrat...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Dealmakers

Sep. 18, 2014
By Jason Pafundin

Post your M&A, IPO and financing deals at www.dailyjournal.com/dealmakers.


"No-poach" antitrust litigation has expanded from Silicon Valley tech companies to the Hollywood animation arena and, after a ...


Law Practice


The senior vice president and chief legal officer at San Jose-based SanDisk Corp. has left the memory card manufacturer to bec...