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California Employment Law Update
Prevailing Employer Should Have Been Permitted To Recover Its Costs from Employee
By Tony Oncidi
Plancich v. UPS, Inc., 198 Cal. App. 4th 308 (2011) Larry Plancich sued UPS for failure to pay overtime, meal and rest breaks; failure to keep, maintain and furnish accurate…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Federal Judge Hosts Kindergarten Party for Attorneys in Discovery Dispute
By Chip Merlin
Austin, Texas Federal Judge Sam Sparks recently issued a novel Order in response to a fairly routine discovery dispute: Greetings and Salutations! You are invited to a kindergarten party on…
The Right Coast
The guy the sharks fear – NYPOST.com
the national tort-lawyer lobby is set to spend millions to try to stop the GOP presidential hopeful in his tracks.No wonder: Perry, in his 10 years as Texas governor, has…
Class Action Countermeasures
Insight from Other Strategists – Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
By The Editors
This month, the Insight from Other Strategists feature turns from military thought to business strategy, a notoriously trickier thing to adapt to litigation. While there are certainly excellent business strategists…
Business and Commercial
Value Tip of the Day–Courtesy of Valorem App
By Patrick Lamb
Give it to the litigators (they'll eat anything!) Have litigators review your contracts. Corporate lawyers repeat provisions without knowing how the terms hold up in court. Litigators have a keen…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Breakfast With Your Labor Lawyer – Fall 2011 Seminar Series
Join our Sheppard Mullin attorneys as they discuss recent important developments in labor and employment law at both the state and federal level. We will explain how these new developments…
Media Law Prof Blog
For Your Consideration: Entertainment Litigation, from Oxford University Press
The new treatise Entertainment Litigation, edited by Charles J. Harder (Oxford University Press, 2011), will be a must-have, both for practicing attorneys in the area and for law faculty who…
Business and Commercial
Value Tip of the Day–Courtesy of Valorem App
By Patrick Lamb
The long and winding road .... Studies show that the longer litigation continues, the more expensive it is. Give your firm incentive to conclude litigation quickly -- like a success…
Marler Blog
It was a good day to be a trial lawyer
By Bill Marler
In 2009 Linda Rivera, a 57-year-old mother of six from Nevada, was stricken with what one doctor described as “the severest multi-organ (bowel, kidney, brain, lung, gall bladder, pancreas) case…
Food Poison Journal
A history of litigating ground beef E. coli cases
By Bill Marler
Twenty years is a long time for a law firm to focus exclusively on litigating just food cases, but the food industry seems hell-bent on keeping Marler Clark in business. …