Join The Daily Transcript as we recognize this year's up-and-coming legal stars with the seventh annual Young Attorneys honor. See the finalists here.
If you're discussing business over the Internet, be careful. The next email you send could represent your new contract.
San Diego County law firms maintain a competitive edge by attracting top attorneys as well as grooming outstanding young talent. In this special publication, The Daily Transcript recognizes the San Diego legal community’s up-and-coming stars with the sixth annual Young Attorneys honor.
It's still a tight job market for recent law school graduates, but there are signs of better times ahead, according to local industry analysts.
An embarrassing mistake involving a Statue of Liberty stamp could come back to haunt the U.S. Postal Service. The "forever" stamp design released in 2011 was not based on the statue in New York Harbor, as intended, but on a replica outside the New York-New York casino hotel in Las Vegas.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Monday started weighing whether a former BP engineer broke the law or harmlessly swiped his finger across a cellular phone when he deleted hundreds of text messages in the aftermath of the company's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Southern California-based maker of Sriracha has been told it can't ship any more of its popular hot sauce to food distributors until next month because the state Department of Public Health is enforcing stricter guidelines that require a 30-day hold on the product.
Many legal educators say the bar exam is an out-dated method of determining who is prepared to become a competent lawyer.
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Employers hoped the California Supreme Court’s long-awaited ruling in Brinker v. Superior Court of San Diego would put an end to class actions alleging violation of California’s meal period laws. It did not.
From its earliest days as an evening bar preparation program at San Diego High School in the 1920s, California Western School of Law has focused on ensuring its graduates are ready for the practice of law. That work continues to produce results, including the most recent listings of San Diego’s best and brightest Young Attorneys.
The California Bar is set to consider how it might implement a recommendation that law students take 15 hours of “practice-based, experiential” course work prior to bar admission. (I’m assuming the trustees will adopt the recommendation.) For many students, such a requirement won’t change much. Most schools, mine included, offer many clinics, courses and externship programs that fit that bill. Lots of students take them. The requirement will be a change for others, but I think it will be a good one. There is a lot to be said for learning by doing. We need to get implementation right, of course, but we will. The recommendation was meant to nudge us, and we have been nudged.
Because of budget constraints, litigation generally is becoming more expensive and difficult to manage.
The federal government is aggressively seeking damages against employers who fail to pay interns for the work they perform. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, covered, non-exempt individuals who are “permitted” to work must be compensated for their services. Unless an internship in the “for-profit” private sector meets all of the criteria listed here, it will most often be viewed as employment. Interns qualifying as employees must be paid at least the minimum wage and overtime for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.
Join The Daily Transcript as we recognize this year's up-and-coming legal stars with the eighth annual Young Attorneys honor.
Join the Transcript as we recognize this year's up-and-coming legal stars with the sixth annual Young Attorneys honor.
Join the Transcript as we recognize this year's up-and-coming legal stars with the fifth annual Young Attorneys honor.
Join the Transcript as we recognize this year's up and coming legal stars with the fourth annual Young Attorneys honor.
Get a closer look at these up-and-coming legal professionals, as nominated by other practicing attorneys and selected by a judging panel of legal experts.
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