Alaina Lancaster

October 09, 2020 | The Recorder

While the hiring process may be unusual this year, attorneys are still looking to switch firms for the same professional and personal reasons that convince attorneys to make a move in any other year, says Denton's Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair.

By Shari Klevens and Alanna Clair

6 minute read

October 08, 2020 | The Recorder

David Cruz, law professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, says a recent op-ed from Stanford's Michael McConnell is misleading about the security of Roe v. Wade and abortion rights in the nation's high court with the addition of Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

By David Cruz

7 minute read

October 07, 2020 | The Recorder

A panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that Judge Lucy Koh's order prohibiting the U.S. Census Bureau from closing the census count by the Dec. 31 statutory deadline raised "serious separation of powers concerns."

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

October 07, 2020 | The Recorder

"One of the options is shutting down," West said. "We are thinking very hard at all different eventualities, and at the end of the day, the law is the law, and we will comply."

By Alaina Lancaster

4 minute read

October 07, 2020 | Law.com

Facebook says a shareholder derivative suit on corporate diversity is a "crass attempt to take advantage of that movement."

By Alaina Lancaster

7 minute read

October 06, 2020 | The Recorder

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila said the complexity of the case suggests it will include numerous, voluminous discovery, discrete issues flushed out in motion practice and other technology that will need to be carefully examined.

By Alaina Lancaster

5 minute read

October 05, 2020 | The Recorder

Ninth Circuit Judge Susan Graber said it's not for the court to dictate how the U.S. Census Bureau goes about meeting a Dec. 31 deadline to wrap up census gathering and processing.

By Alaina Lancaster

5 minute read

October 05, 2020 | The Recorder

Justice Martin Jenkins also would be the third black man to join the court.

By Alaina Lancaster | Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

October 02, 2020 | The Recorder

The court has agreed to hear cases that involve the enduring white supremist legacy of a Louisiana law that allowed for non-unanimous jury criminal convictions, standards for evaluating excessive use of force by police, what is required to sentence a juvenile to life without parole, and military sexual violence, says Rachel Van Cleave, a law professor and dean emerita at Golden Gate University School of Law

By Rachel Van Cleave

9 minute read

October 02, 2020 | The Recorder

Imperfect laws should be fixed, not bulldozed, says retired Judge Eugene Hyman of Santa Clara County Superior Court, of California laws that reduced certain nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors and increased parole opportunities for nonviolent criminals.

By Eugene Hyman

4 minute read