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Posted on February 26, 2009
Clare Pastore, a law professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, has a column in today's Delaware Online in which she details the importance of civil counsel and how to fund lawyers for all who need...

Safety goes head to head with right-to-know in animal research fights

Posted on February 26, 2009
Scientific researchers whose work involves testing monkeys, dogs or other creatures sometimes face the wrath of animal-rights activists. Now, their employers -- public universities and research institutions -- are curtailing information they once made public to protect the scientists, saying...

Would-be art "collector" will be leaving Las Vegas

Posted on February 26, 2009
Authorities today arrested a fugitive living under an alias in Las Vegas, a decade after he allegedly stole close to half a million dollars' worth of art from Laguna Beach galleries, officials said.Detectives of the Laguna Beach police and Las...

New "john school" program aims to lessen the thousand cards to play in street life

Posted on February 26, 2009
A new effort by law enforcement officials to stem prostitution in Los Angeles, the Prostitution Diversion Program (or "john school) is built on the belief that a heavy dose of in-your-face shame and scare tactics can do more to dissuade...

Furloughs and shortened hours predicted for California courts

Posted on February 26, 2009
In California's budget crisis, the nation's largest state judiciary will be hit by severe budget shortages that may prompt shortened court hours, furloughed employees, loss of 50 new judgeships and less money for state-funded lawyers. Even before the current budget...

McKenna Long adds 17 Brown Winfield lawyers to real estate and litigation practices

Posted on February 26, 2009
McKenna Long & Aldridge expanded its Real Estate and Litigation Practice groups today. Seventeen attorneys formerly with Los Angeles-based Brown Winfield Canzoneri Abram, Inc. join MLA?s Los Angeles office. The addition of the Brown Winfield group will bring the firm?s...

Top UC law schools launch Washington, D.C. field placement program

Posted on February 26, 2009
Students at UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA School of Law are learning first-hand how laws are made in a new internship program in Washington, D.C. called UCDC Law. This uniquely collaborative program among the UC law schools places...

Nordman attorneys chosen for 2009 Super Lawyers list

Posted on February 25, 2009
Diane Becker, Glenn Dickinson, Ronald Gill, Larry Hines, Jonathan Fraser Light, Joel Mark and William Winfield, attorneys with Ventura County?s largest law firm, Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP, have been chosen for inclusion on the 2009 Southern California Super...

Ackerman and Nedeau join Nossaman

Posted on February 25, 2009
Law firm Nossaman LLP today announced that former California Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman has joined the firm as a partner in Orange County. Christopher Nedeau, a seasoned trial lawyer, has joined the firm in San Francisco as a civil...

With civil rights suit on horizon, times are getting rocky for Miley

Posted on February 25, 2009
The uproar over the Miley Cyrus photo that some Asian groups have deemed offensive has spilled over to the courtroom. According to court documents obtained by Access Hollywood, a Los Angeles woman is suing Miley over the photograph ? for...

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