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Insurance


The proliferation of these policies affects the rights and obligations of homeowners, developers, general contractors and subc...


Perspective


What Comcast-Time Warner merger really means

Feb. 19, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Won't this mega-merger just knock out another competitor and further exacerbate the already deplorable cable service we receiv...


Perspective


Objection, Hollywood! You're doing it wrong!

Feb. 19, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

I love movies. I also happen to be a litigator, so sometimes it's a bit difficult for me watching lawyers on the big screen. H...


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


For the second time in less than a month, UCLA School of Law's Eugene Volokh has scored a free speech win before the 9th U.S. ...


This year, Timothy A. Tosta is marking two anniversaries - 40 years practicing law and a decade visiting the poor at a San Fra...


As the 2014 president, Mark P. Robinson Jr. will turn his intense work ethic to the American Board of Trial Advocates' mission...


High speed rail proponents Friday urged a judge not to consider key claims by rail opponents that the design of the statewide ...


Corporate


San Francisco-based private equity firm Golden Gate Capital relied on counsel from Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the sale of por...


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


The 9th Circuit recently adopted a rebuttable presumption that an order compelling arbitration stays, but does not dismiss, an...


California Supreme Court


The California Supreme Court is considering reversing course and OK'ing automatic sex offender registration for people convict...


After years of district court judges remanding wage and hour class action litigation to plaintiff-friendly state courts, some ...


Law Practice


The soft underbelly of corporate America

Feb. 19, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

The ethical implications of the Mayer Brown surveillance revelations are not something to dismiss lightly. By Edwin B. Reeser ...


Law Practice


On the Move

Feb. 18, 2014
By Kylie Reynolds

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.


Judicial Profile


Trina S. Thompson

Feb. 18, 2014
By Laura Hautalan

Judge Trina Thompson likes to use visuals to communicate with litigants in her courtroom.


Judicial Profile


Franklin E. Bondonno

Feb. 17, 2014
By Kevin Lee

Attorneys appreciate Judge Franklin Bondonno's direct, compassionate approach in drug court.


The conclusion reached by an appellate court in a recent case undermines the basis for the enactment of appraisal statutes and...


Books


For those accustomed to thinking about the leaders of the women's suffrage movement as prim society ladies, Myra MacPherson's ...


Labor/Employment


Creating flexibility in California's workplaces

Feb. 15, 2014
By Ben Armisteadn

Will the state Legislature attempt to adopt a state-wide version of San Francisco's Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance this l...


Community News


Sedgwick LLP's Asian Pacific Islander Lawyers Forum and the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California hosted their fourt...


Community News


Kwixuan Maloof, a managing attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, was honored Feb. 7 by the Santa Clara Count...


Community News


Chief justice comes to Inland Empire

Feb. 15, 2014
By Ben Adlin

Hundreds of Inland Empire lawyers and judges gathered Wednesday evening to hear guest speaker Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sak...


Solo and Small Firms


Small Firm Charms

Feb. 15, 2014
By Salvador Mares

The four-partner firm Heffernan Seubert & French LLP are all alumni of DLA Piper's East Palo Alto office, where they first...


Law Practice


Morrison & Foerster LLP has snagged the co-chair of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's technology transactions and s...


Government


Restored funding will also return CJA panel rates to pre-sequestration levels. ...


The American Bar Association honored retired corporate attorney and business executive Wendy C. Shiba of Los Angeles with the ...


Community News


Foundation launches Loyola scholarship

Feb. 15, 2014
By Ben Adlin

Three members of Loyola Law School's seven-member board of directors visited the school's downtown Los Angeles campus Feb. 5 t...


Litigation


Lawyers seeking change in bar admission rules lose

Feb. 15, 2014
By Hadley Robinson

A group of attorneys seeking to change the rules for admission to practice law in California were denied relief after a federa...


Law Practice


Winston poaches Bingham partner

Feb. 15, 2014
By Kylie Reynolds

Winston & Strawn LLP has grabbed structured finance specialist Daniel Passage from Bingham McCutchen LLP, Winston confirme...


Labor/Employment


Retired Orange County employees lacked the evidence to show that a longtime health care benefit qualified as an implied contra...


Judges and Judiciary


Veteran San Francisco County judge to retire

Feb. 15, 2014
By Saul Sugarman

Charlotte Walter Woolard, a longtime San Francisco County Superior Court judge, said Thursday she is retiring at the end of he...