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The chief comes up short ... Gonzalez goes on vacation ... Ninth Circuit hits eject button
Viewpoint: Wanted: Trademarks, Dead or Alive
Strategic Marks, an Irvine-based startup, is on a mission to breathe new life into dead marks. Its website declares that the company's goal is to "revive ... long-lost brand names," and...
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Viewpoint: Growing Backlash against 'Citizens United'
Two years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court held that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited funds on campaign advertisements, provided that such spending is not formally &...
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A reminder for leaping lawyers ... Akin's pain ... budding controversies
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Viewpoint: Weaponizing Snow Cones for War on Terror
Justice Bedsworth isn?t exactly warming up to the Department of Homeland Security?s new snow cone strategy in Michigan
Viewpoint: A 50-Year Legacy of Service by African-Americans in the California Courts
Last June, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the appointment of the first African-American to serve as an appellate justice in California, the Judicial Council unanimously approved a resolution...
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Greenberg Glusker's slick move ... Baker McKenzie's sick office ... "Mom" not the magic word
Viewpoint: Making 'Say on Pay' Say More to Executives
In 2011, for the first time, all American publicly traded companies asked their shareholders to approve the pay awarded to executives, the so-called "say on pay" vote. Most companies won...
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Courts tread water ... Class actions keep sinking ... The check's in the mailroom
Viewpoint: The Year in BAR-ometers
Cantil-Sakauye's and Feinstein's timing bad ... Russo's timing good ... Liu and Chen laugh last ... Tears, no laughter, for S.F. court staff and State Bar prosecutors.
Civil
- Woman Mistakenly Put on 'No-Fly' List Can Sue, Appellate Panel Rules
- FTC Sued over Google's Privacy Changes
- Solicitor General Backs Pharma Sales Reps on Overtime Pay
- Oracle Gambles on Retrial in SAP Copyright Infringement Case
- Patent Merchant Ocean Tomo Accuses Former Executive of Trade Secret Theft
Courts News
- Judicial Watchdog Scolds PJ for Canceling Court Reporter
- S.F. Law Library to Close Financial District Branch
- Capital Accounts: How AB 1208 Could Thread Senate Needle
- 9th Circuit Countermands Order to Unseal Prop 8 Video
- Brown Names Pair of Criminal Defense Lawyers to Bay Area Benches
Criminal
- S.F. Defender in Trouble over Moonlighting In Civil Trial
- Circuit Reverses Alsup in Joint Defense Privilege Fight
- S.F. Touts Successes of Drug Court Program
- S.F. Assistant DA and Her Husband Booked on Domestic Violence Charges
- UCLA Chemistry Professor Lawyers up Following Lab Assistant's Death
Government & Policy
- Effort to Boost Hiring of Disabled Blasted as 'Overkill'
- Last Minute Arm-Twisting Gets AB 1208 Through the Assembly
- Justices Opt for Commission's Voter Maps Despite Challenge
- 'Green Chemistry' Law Has Lawyers, Industry on Alert
- Capital Accounts: A Familiar Face in the Mix for Top AOC Job
In-House
- Cooley Partner Taking GC Job at Jazz Pharmaceuticals
- Google Brings in Juniper Lawyer to Handle Patent Strategy
- HP Replacing Its Top Lawyer
- Marin Software Hires First GC
- McAfee Defeats Ex-GC's Malicious Prosecution Claim
Law Firms
- Head of Wilson Sonsini's China Practice Jumps to Venture Firm
- DLA Piper Loses Six Real Estate Attorneys to Seyfarth Shaw in L.A.
- Ropes & Gray Reps Tria Beauty in IPO
- Weathering the Storm
- Polsinelli Picks Off Rutter Hobbs Partner as Firm Disintegrates
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