By Meghan Tribe | June 8, 2017
After nominating real estate practice head F. Chase Simmons to succeed W. Russell Welsh as head of Polsinelli late last month, the Am Law 100 firm confirmed his ascension to its top leadership role after a partnership vote Thursday.
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By Ross Todd | June 8, 2017
David Daleiden's lawyers say U.S. District Judge William Orrick III has ties to Planned Parenthood that call his impartiality into question.
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By Commentary by Gina Clausen Lozier | June 8, 2017
For employers, preparation for hurricane season requires more than securing bottled water and batteries to wait out the storm. It requires an emergency action plan which clearly sets forth the company's procedures in the event of a hurricane, writes Gina Clausen Lozier.
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By Rebecca Cohen | June 8, 2017
The San Francisco-based firm, which has a Napa Valley office in St. Helena, has hired a new estate planning partner from a large firm in Texas and a real estate and land use lawyer from the District Attorney's Office of Sonoma County.
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By Samuel C. Stretton | June 8, 2017
I saw an article about the increased use of artificial intelligence in the future of the practice of law. The article suggested that lawyers who are not technologically skilled ought to retire or consider another profession. Where is the practice of law headed?
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By Timothy J. Horstmann | June 8, 2017
On June 7, new IRS regulations that change the way state and local governments issue tax-exempt bonds went into effect. The new rules change the way municipal issuers determine the issue price of tax-exempt bonds they issue, and amend existing IRS regulations under Section 148 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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By Cliff Rieders | June 8, 2017
To the practitioner who spends most of his time litigating in the state courts, removal to federal court may by an infrequent event, and the receipt of a notice of removal might cause some unease because of unfamiliarity with the mechanics and underlying law. Whether the practitioner is seeking to remove a case to federal court, or attempting to have it remanded, the obvious place to start, of course, is the statute governing removal, which is found at 28 U.S. C. Section 1441.
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By Leonard Deutchman | June 8, 2017
Examination of the court's opinion reveals questionable reasoning as to a few key issues. The first issue is one not addressed: standing. Assuming that the plaintiff actually did use the "find my iPhone" application to locate the iPhone at the defendant's residence, and that the application worked properly—it is odd that the phone would be at that location, as opposed to OSCO's evidence locker—it is hard to see what reasonable expectation of privacy, under the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments or any federal or state statutes (none were cited), the plaintiff would have in a phone which was initially in the possession of the plaintiff's fiancé and was thereafter in the possession of OSCO and the defendant.
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By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | June 8, 2017
Fort Lauderdale-based Brinkley Morgan will merge with the Palm Beach County office of matrimony and family lawyer Martin "Guy" Hanes.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 7, 2017
Deborah J. Zateeny and David J. Karasko, of Zateeny Loftus, were panelists, and Zateeny was also a course planner, for the 15th annual Nonprofit Institute sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
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