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  • January 7, 2011 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Randall Newsome has joined JAMS ' San Francisco Resolution Center. Newsome, former ch

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  • June 20, 2007 | Alm

    11th Circuit Rules For Employment Discrimination Plaintiff

    Handing a rare win to an employment discrimination plaintiff, a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that state privilege rules shielding documents related to doctor

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  • December 9, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court Rejects Early Appeals of Attorney-Client Privilege Determinations

    Federal court orders requiring litigants to disclose information that they believe is protected by the attorney-client privilege do not qualify for immediate appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tu

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  • August 31, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Judges wrestle with new lawyer requests

    SOMETIMES A criminal defendant wants to fire his court-appointed lawyer, even a lawyer that everyone else in the courtroom thinks is a good one. "Some people just are irrational about

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  • December 6, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    In The Trenches: Sutherland launches mock courtroom

    SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN'S transactional lawyers are as happy about the firm's new mock courtroom as its litigators. Until now the litigators have had to use the firm's conference room

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  • Communities For a Better Environment v. South Coast Air Quality Management District (ConocoPhillips Company)

    Publication Date: 2010-03-15
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    Date Filed: 2010-03-15
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adrienne L. Bloch, Shana Lazerow; Lozeau|Drury and Richard T. Drury for Plaintiff and Appellant Communities for a Better Environment. Richard M. Frank; Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, Marc D. Joseph and Richard T. Drury for Plaintiffs and Appellants Carlos Valdez et al. Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Tom Green and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Theodora P. Berger and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Sally Magnani Knox, Lisa Trankley and Susan L. Durbin, Deputy Attorneys General for State of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Luke Cole for Association of Irritated Residents, California Communities Against Toxics, California Environmental Rights Alliance, California Safe Schools, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, Coalition for a Safe Environment, Community Water Center, Tricounty Watchdogs and Youth United for Community Action as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic and Sean B. Hecht for Sierra Club, Endangered Habitats League, National Resources Defense Council and Planning and Conservation League as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Daniel V. Hyde, Paul J. Beck and Azusa K. Tokudome for California Association of Sanitation Agencies as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Kurt R. Wiese, Barbara Baird; Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart, Bradley R. Hogin, Edward L. Bertrand and Ricia R. Hager for Defendants and Respondents. Latham & Watkins, Robert A. Wyman, Jr., and Emily Taylor for Regulatory Flexibility Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents. Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, Alston & Bird, Ward L. Benshoof, Jocelyn D. Thompson; Cox Castle & Nicholson and Michael H. Zishke for Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Diepenbrock Harrison, Mark D. Harrison and Dan M. Silverboard for California Construction and Industrial Materials Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Michael M. Berger for Western Independent Refiners Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Kevin M. Fong and David R. Farabee for Western States Petroleum Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, P. Addison Covert, Robin Leslie Stewart and Stacy L. Asato Toledo for California School Boards Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and Lisabeth D. Rothman for California Building Industry Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. S161190

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 3204COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT, Plaintiff and Appellant, v.SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAG

  • April 11, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Ring,* plaintiff-appellant v. AXA Financial, Inc., defendants-appellees

    Decided April 6, 2007Before Jacobs, Ch.J.; Straub and Pooler, C.JJ.The district court denied plaintiff Shirley Ring's motion for remand of her class-action complaint, which contain

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  • Village Northridge Homeowners Association v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company

    Publication Date: 2010-08-30
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    Date Filed: 2010-08-30
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Appellant: Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack, Jerry A. Ramsey, Brian J. Heffernan and Alexandra J. Thompson for Plaintiff and Appellant. Sharon J. Arkin for United Policyholders as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondent: Robie & Matthai, James R. Robie, Kyle Kveton, Steven S. Fleischman; LHB Pacific Law Partners, Clarke B. Holland, Sandra E. Stone; Crandall, Wade & Lowe and Michael J. McGuire for Defendant and Respondent. Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Robert A. Olson and Alana H. Rotter for Association of Southern California Defense Counsel as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Fred J. Hiestand for The Civil Justice Association of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Chapman, Popik & White, Susan M. Popik and Carol D. Quackenbos for Personal Insurance Federation of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. S161008

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 11321VILLAGE NORTHRIDGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. STATE FARM FIRE

  • August 26, 2011 | Daily Report Online

    Tax attorneys support tax court creation; judges opposed

    State legislators this summer have started hashing out a plan to create a Georgia tax court system, which tax attorneys appear to like but Superior Court judges do not. The most recent

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  • January 17, 2003 | Daily Report Online

    JQC Might Concede Campaign Speech Case

    Jonathan Ringel [email protected] The state Judicial Qualifications Commission is considering conceding defeat to George M. Weaver, whom the commission rebuked in 1998 f

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