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Through the late 1990s, driven by double-digit growth at Silicon Valley tech firms, Bay Area law firms led the nation in terms of profit growth. In 2001, the region's fortunes took an abrupt
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My career as a stand-up comic lasted roughly 40 minutes. I was not "discovered," I was not paid and I was not the least bit interested in a return engagement. The only good th
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When a legal rule is imprecise, but nonetheless emphatic, I sometimes encourage my students to ask how many times the word "really" should appear in the rule statement. For example, a
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California's judge-vetting commission has given its highest evaluation grade to Goodwin Liu, Gov. Jerry Brown's pick for the state Supreme Court. The Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluati
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As the Senate weighs the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, the interest shown in the 46,000 pages recently released by the Clinton Presidential Library reminds us that confirmat
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Jury trials keep getting more expensive. Civil courtrooms have been sacrificed to budget cuts throughout California. For either reason, converting mediations into advantageous settlements is
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