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Jan. 8, 2010
By STEPHEN LARSON

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera Thursday was sworn into office for his third term at a public ceremony in City Hall...


Law Practice


The last three years have brought whirlwind change for Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. The tremors have been felt firmwide,...


Government


9th Circuit Rebuffs AG

Jan. 8, 2010
By Evan George

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to take back, or soften, an unusually gruff order it made in December accus...


Criminal


Polanski May Be Sentenced in Absentia

Jan. 8, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

Roman Polanski's lawyers will get a hearing on whether the director should be sentenced in absentia for sex crimes under a sta...


Environmental


Fewer Dollars, More Deals for Cleantech

Jan. 8, 2010
By Fiona Smith

Total venture investment in clean technology was down and overall deal making was steeply up in 2009, according to figures rel...


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


Judge Must Reconsider Class Action

Jan. 8, 2010
By John Roemer

U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of Los Angeles was wrong to deny class certification to labor union workers seeking to...


California Supreme Court


An End to Free Speech in Airports?

Jan. 8, 2010
By Laura Ernden

The California Supreme Court didn't seem eager Wednesday to stand in the way of post-9/11 security by extending broad free spe...


Securities


Brocade Official to Serve Prison Time

Jan. 8, 2010
By Craig Anderson

A former human resources official at Brocade Communications Systems Inc. will be the first Silicon Valley executive to serve a...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Lawyer Admits Role As Go-Between

Jan. 8, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

A reformed gang member-turned-criminal defense attorney, whom prosecutors accused of working as a middleman for a clique of a ...


Perspective


Headquartering in China

Jan. 8, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

James Wong, U.S. Counsel for Chinney Capital, lays out the steps for and benefits of setting up regional headquarters in China...


Education


Giving Kids a Fair Day in Court

Jan. 8, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Julie Waterstone of Southwestern Law School explains why the 'Civil Gideon' statute should be extended to education and school...


Letter to the Editor


Jennifer Keller of Keller Rackauckas says former prosecutors bring just as much bias into judicial office as ex-public defende...


Securities


Fraud Schemes Abounded In State in 2009

Jan. 8, 2010
By Gabe Friedmann

Federal regulators in California encountered a virtual hurricane of investment fraud schemes in 2009. They ripped more than $4...


Perspective


Support Payments, It's a Question of Time

Jan. 8, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Family law attorneys Mitchell Jacobs and Jami Fosgate examine In re Marriage of Kacik and the issue of spousal and chil...


Technology & Science


Prop. 8 Trial to Get Broadcast Over YouTube

Jan. 8, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

One of the nation's highest-profile trials, featuring a challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban, will be broadcast to ...


Government


Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School says the view that a growing public deficit transfers wealth from the young people to the o...


Letter to the Editor


David Rosen of Rose, Klein & Marias explains why he believes litigation increased against the insurance industry after the...


Discipline


Disciplinary Actions

Jan. 7, 2010
By Lisa Kestenbaumn

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


Perspective


Credit-Rating Agency Reform?

Jan. 7, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Mark Labaton of Kreindler & Kreindler says criticism that the House's bill does not adequately regulate credit-rating agen...


Judges and Judiciary


Justice Candace Cooper wants to go back to where it all started - Dorsey High School, in the Crenshaw neighborhood where she g...


Law Practice


Orrick Aids Tribeca Purchases

Jan. 7, 2010
By Jill Redhage

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe lawyers led by Mike Liever helped San Francisco private equity investment firm Tribeca Cos....


Mergers & Acquisitions


Latham Advises on Pizza Deal

Jan. 7, 2010
By J Lin

Latham & Watkins partners in Los Angeles advised Nestlé on its acquisition of Kraft Foods' frozen pizza business for $3.7 ...


Judges and Judiciary


Sacramento Judge Hangs on to Job - Barely

Jan. 7, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien narrowly escaped losing his job Tuesday, when the state Commission on Jud...


Obituaries


Nate Cohn

Jan. 7, 2010
By John Roemer

1918-2010 ...


Intellectual Property


China Charged With Stealing Software

Jan. 7, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

A Santa Barbara software company filed a $2.2 billion copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday against the Chinese government, a...


Intellectual Property


Card Maker Guilty of Counterfeiting

Jan. 7, 2010
By Evelyn Larrubian

The Upper Deck Co., a Carlsbad-based card seller, counterfeited thousands of popular Japanese animation trading cards, a feder...


Intellectual Property


Cisco Fined As Case Against It Dismissed

Jan. 7, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

A patent infringement case that spawned two defamation lawsuits against Cisco and outed the company's formerly anonymous attor...


Energy Law


After Copenhagen - What Now?

Jan. 7, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Deborah Sivas of Stanford Law School discusses responses, post-Copenhagen, to the 'endangerment finding' regarding greenhouse ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Initial roadblocks to Oracle-Sun merger show why antitrust policy convergence should be top priority write Patrick Ryan and La...


Law Practice


Don't Pay Cash for Clunkers

Jan. 7, 2010
By Sharon Liangn

Julie Daniels and Robin Kardon of Major, Lindsey & Africa instruct on how to navigate today's overflowing attorney candida...